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Dreamed in heaven and on the whispering sea - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"

Wild with a measureless desire - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"

And sad with all farewells - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"

Disown our mysteries of kin - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Old parents of the Sphinx - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

In the waver and echo of your caves - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

The passion of my heart compressed - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Heavy with the woe of all the world - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Render freedom to things bound - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Careless grace in flying poise - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

The eyes of anguish-stricken Cassiopeia - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

The careless grace my Perseus wears - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Anarchy of self-abandoned will - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Intone their ancient litany - Edward Dowden "At Mullion (Cornwall)"

The fierce noon fervour to allay - Edward Dowden "At the Oar"

To Artemis my Queen - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Had sprung complete from darkness - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

A clear cry at daybreak - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Of twenty rivulets gathered in the hills - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

The echoing rocks have heard - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Through perturbing touch of doubt - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Remains for dreams to weave - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Yielding to the eye which searches - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

The sides of the bewildered hills - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

A tangle of drenched grass - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

All April's quick desire - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

All June's possession - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

Over the utmost verge - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

And words of delicate breath - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

Ways of cloud and terror - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

Skies of snow and bitter air - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

Silence filling like a cup - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

Breathed low mystery of song - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Acquiescing in the change - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

The birth of dreadful light - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Star-enchanted hollows of the night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

What garbs of new opinion - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Heard the sea-gulls scream for glee - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Until the imprisoned soul forgets - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

A summons faint yet absolute - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Half so heavy as a cobweb's weight - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

The throng of dusty cares - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"

Through the whirl of atoms and of force - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"

And the rival thrushes sing - Edward Dowden "Compensation"

Calm'd by the wizard Seven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

With a blade of ragged edge - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Embalmed hearts of summers dead - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Melts from the mid spheres of heaven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Driven up the moon's path - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

So deaf to the Eternal Silences - Edward Dowden "David and Michal"

And firm feet making conquest - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

The thunder-stone flung forth - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

Diviner of my buried life - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"

Stirrings and murmurings of the underground - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"

The flash and outbreak of my fate - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"

Whose sight is sunshine to my soul - Edward Dowden "A Dream"

The arching wave's suspended malachite - Edward Dowden "Deus Absconditus"

Brought a brimming bowl of nectar - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"

To the underworld from heaven - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"

Fearing Jupiter should see her - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"

This lost flaring star - Edward Dowden "Durer's 'Melencholia'"

Nor ebbing Time vexes Eternity - Edward Dowden "Durer's 'Melencholia'"

Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

With the serried logic of a dream - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

Clear harmonies through the infinite - Edward Dowden "Emerson"

Eyes resolved on present victory - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Wreaths they twisted round his horns - Edward Dowden "Europa"

To veil command in tender invitation - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Beyond all chance secure - Edward Dowden "Europa"

This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

The blank and silence of the senses - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

The sob of the forgetful river - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

From which the soul swerves never - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

His heart upon the gale of song - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

The naked trial of the will - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

In jealous service to his art - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Control the will of snake - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Brooding panther fiery-eyed - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Bickering counsel of contending kings - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

When the soul stood vindicated - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Laying sudden hands on immortality - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Some far faint-gleaming hour of Hell - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Sense of conquest stern and high - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"

Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"

A silver spray of ecstasy - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"

Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

While careless fate allows - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

Darkling beneath still olive boughs - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

Buried blooms surprise the plunderer bee - Edward Dowden "From April to October: II. Two Infinities"

Silence and wise mystery - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

The incessant rain of melody - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"

In cool and shadowy limit - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"

Living shade from beechen branches - Edward Dowden "From April to October: V. The Mill-Race"

Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"

On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"

The imperfect impulse of a song - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"

Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"

No noonday trance in midsummer - Edward Dowden "From April to October: X. In the Window"

My musing heart suddenly kindled - Edward Dowden "The Gift"

Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"

The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"

The mother of the stars and winds - Edward Dowden "Helena"

And the grey dust of a heart - Edward Dowden "Helena"

Through mere inertia trembling - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

The dark musician's fiercer harmony - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

The light of strange discovered skies - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

Lovelier assassin none could choose - Edward Dowden "Imitated from J. Soulary's 'Le Fossoyeur'"

Grave Night is no betrayer - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral"

Five downy fledglings in a row - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral Close"

Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"

Psyche slumbering in deep grass - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Proud of plume and paint - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

A fierce macaw on the verandah - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Deeper than coiled waters laid - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Too soon the irrevocable word - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

To lull a fretted heart to sleep - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

One bird sang the song I chose - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

And the endurance of the sky - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Whose pulses play with fullest life-blood - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Hell confuses Heaven, and night, the day - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Ancient sunsets and lost hours - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Counterfeiting shadows and vain dreams - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Walk with naked souls in Paradise - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"

Haunted by the feet of thoughts - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Dreams glide by on noiseless plumes - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Beyond the fountains of the dawn - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

My heart was as a cinder - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Filled the heaven like brass - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

An atom of pure and living will - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

The echo from an iron cliff - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Emperor of this red domain - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Coiling his solitary strength along - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

In the heart's blind waste - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"

In heaven an oath memorial - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"

The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

The approving angels know - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

For roses my full store - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Your wrathful eyes afar - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Songs the world will hear - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

As befits a mage so skilled - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

Rare wisardry in characters vermilion - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

Wild blasts of tyrannous harmony - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"

What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"

Vanward squadrons of the joyous storm - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"

Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"

Descent in shattering crystal - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IV: Άισθητιχή φαντασία"

And change these pulsing visions - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IV: Άισθητιχή φαντασία"

Fierce winter's chronicle - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Centuries of dead summers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Unvanquished Venus of the northern sea - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

A bride's face of flowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

For gracious heavenly dowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

That gravely murmurs meek desires - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

Relic of the dear, dead yesterday - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VII: Relics"

The chill breathing of the waterfall - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VII: Relics"

That red flower of memory - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VIII: On the Pier of Boulogne"

Received a golden alms from you - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VIII: On the Pier of Boulogne"

A murmurous song along the corn - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IX: Dover"

Melancholy winds of autumn rise - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IX: Dover"

With the soul's high invention - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"

For the mart or for the temple - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"

Through all the hours that laugh - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

Sure of the miracle - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

A confederacy of mightiest Powers - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

Betwixt the gates of steepest heaven - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"

To vindicate night's ancient fame - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"

From altars of the universe - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"

The harps whereon the Angels play - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

The pain of restless music yearning - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

The fiat summoning day - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

The faultless flower of light - Edward Dowden "Musicians"

All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

Pronounce the dread condemning word - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

All earth's riot fades - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

Curve fragrant wings of quiet - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

Roll back the Spirit's portals - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

Courting oblivion of the heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Lay prone on the perilous edge - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

The bland persuasion of some breeze - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Frauds of the unfilled heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Calm summer from a hundred fields - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Demands her atom of intense melody - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Tired of thornless roses - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"

Prove scarce unmingled blessings - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"

With robe and girdle laid aside - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Her eyes must meet our passion - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Liberal to each breeze that blows - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Elude all mortal touch - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Who paces round the brink - Edward Dowden "The Pool"

Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

Compact of spirit and fire and dew - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

And higher the keen stars - Edward Dowden "Prometheus Unbound"

On the good tide of the world - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Shall mark the cowslip tossed - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

And hear the enraptured lark - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Instant within my shrine - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

High ritual and a holy day - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"

Muses in hushed heart-vacancy - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"

Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"

When the live flood foams - Edward Dowden "Salome"

Blossom and bud between - Edward Dowden "Salome"

A lullaby the Sea went singing - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

Hope to sting the heart - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

Tenderer than the glaring day - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

A reared and hissing crest - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

Swallowed up in Intuition - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

And gaining the universal synthesis - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Through gleam and gloom - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"

The leonine billows ramp and roll - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"

The sun of Shakespeare's soul - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"

When the swift stars pale - Edward Dowden "A Song"

The light which bites and blights - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

And swift winds bore my songs away - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

And hears the cuckoo shout - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

The tender Sorrows of the twilight - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

Cry for the pathless spaces - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

The brave pure winds commingling - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

No eyes of seraphim gaze in - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

A trackless land divides us - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

Approach the bridegroom's door with song - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

Through lucid fields of air - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

In my eyes the vanished light - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

With zests and pangs ineffable - Edward Dowden "Swallows"

Immense sea-spaces haunt your memory - Edward Dowden "Swallows"

Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

Pale from light obscure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

Backward down the blind gulfs of night - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

The wild Swan's melodious melancholy - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

Slayer of the serpent brood - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

Let the shadows troop to darkness - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Ere melancholy was invented - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

The knight foredoomed of grace - Edward Dowden "The Trespasser"

A century hence will envenom a lover - Edward Dowden "Unuttered"

Never bid the Sphinx despair - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

Nor read in Sibyl's book - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

Essay the vain assault on heaven - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

And draw this tranquil breath - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

One lone cry of sorrow - Edward Dowden "Where Wert Thou?"

Some birds will dare to sing - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

And lurking violets blow - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Idle music on the strand - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Silence flowed between us - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

A zone of golden air - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

With stirrings of the Spring - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

And whisper to the ground - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"

To fill my lap with violets - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Clear in this dismantled hour - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Which deep-leaved June had hidden - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

And fire shall be my flower - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

A fluttering of idle butterflies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

Deft seeds blown from a thistle-head - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

The large, yearning eyes of pale Narcissus - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

A shepherd seeking lilies - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"


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