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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-08-01 08:04 am

Potential Titles: E.W. Hornung

If he could but have probed the truth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

The tactless truth of the picture jarred - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

In his golden greeting no least alloy - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Had been climbing the jaws of hell - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

In their fissure of smoking heath - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Followed the chart of her soaring heart - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

In the bed of a river of poison - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Threshes the clover between our lines - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

In skins of molten ice - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

For the vapors that fringe the veil - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

What were his chances of coming through? - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

And you had your Candle's worth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

And heart cannot count the cost - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Winners yet in its tender shine - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"


Per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site, the publication's ledger lists payment for the following poem to "Miss E.W. Hornung" at same address as the E.W. [Ernest William] Hornung who wrote the other poems on this page. They think it may have been mislabeled. Wikipedia doesn't list Hornung's children beyond mentioning a son named Arthur Oscar, and his wife seems to have been named Constance. Wikipedial also doesn't list siblings. Given the address, I'm going to treat this as the same Hornung.

Where you hold those fairy dances - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

With your subtle spell, hold our senses fast - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Tyrants will grant oblivion never - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Yet your mystery enhances - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]


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