Charles Hamilton Musgrove Long Poems

• 1. The Newly Dead
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  With the light just quenched in their eyes
  They lie in their graves 'neath the skies,
  ...
• 2. The Derelict
  North and south with the fickle tides,
  With the wind from east to west,
  The death-ship follows her track of doom,
  But finds no port or rest.
  ...
• 3. Atonement
  You were a red rose then, I know,
  Red as her wine--yea, redder still,--
  Say rather her blood; and ages ago
  (You know how destiny hath its will)
  ...
• 4. The Woman Answers
  What will I say when face to face with God
  My naked soul shall come, seared with the stain
  That men call sin? Why, God will understand;
  He knew my pitiful story long before
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• 5. The Passion Play
  I.
  
  Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross
  Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith
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• 6. Love And Art
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  Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams,
  Far away thy soul hears passion-throated Art
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• 7. Kenotaphion
  O wanderer! whoever thou mayest be,
  I beg of thee to pass in silence here
  And leave me with my empty sepulchre
  Beside the ceaseless turmoil of the sea;
  ...
• 8. Romany
  The city frets in the distance, lass,
  The city so grim and gray,
  A glare in the sky by night, my lass,
  And a blot on the sky by day;
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• 9. The Red Cross
  St. George, I learned to love thee in my youth
  When of thy deeds I read in deathless song;
  And now, when I behold the dragon Wrong
  Hard by the castle-gates of Love and Truth,
  ...

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