Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch Town Poems

• 1. Alma Mater
  Know you her secret none can utter?
  Hers of the Book, the tripled Crown?
  Still on the spire the pigeons flutter,
  Still by the gateway flits the gown;
  ...
• 2. Tim The Dragoon (from 'troy Town')
  Be aisy an' list to a chune
  That's sung of bowld Tim the Dragoon--
  Sure, 'twas he'd niver miss
  To be stalin' a kiss,
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• 3. Written Upon Love's Frontier-post. (from 'troy Town'.)
  Toiling love, loose your pack,
  All your sighs and tears unbind:
  Care's a ware will break a back,
  Will not bend a maiden's mind.
  ...
• 4. To A Friend Who Sent Me A Box Of Violets
  Nay, more than violets
  These thoughts of thine, friend!
  Rather thy reedy brook--
  Taw's tributary--
  ...
• 5. An Oath. (from 'troy Town'.)
  A month ago Lysander pray'd
  To Jove, to Cupid, and to Venus,
  That he might die if he betray'd
  A single vow that pass'd between us.
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• 6. Anecdote For Fathers
  Designed to show that the practice of lying is not confined to children.
  
  By the late W. W. (of H.M. Inland Revenue Service).
  
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• 7. The Regent - A Drama In One Act
  DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  
  CARL'ANTONIO, Duke of Adria
  
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• 8. Upon Graciosa, Walking And Talking. (from 'troy Town'.)
  When as abroad, to greet the morn,
  I mark my Graciosa walk,
  In homage bends the whisp'ring corn,
  Yet to confess
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