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_After an original drawing by Harry Fenn_.
LOVE AND DEATH
"Death comes in,
Though Love, with outstretched arms and wings outspread,
Would bar the way."
_From photogravure after the painting by George Fredeick Watts_.
WALT WHITMAN
_After a life-photograph by Rockwood, New York_.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
_From an engraving after the drawing by George Richmond_.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
_After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London_.
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POEMS OF SORROW AND CONSOLATION.
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I. DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
FROM "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," ACT I. SC. 1.
For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth:
But, either it was different in blood,
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends;
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say,--Behold!
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
SHAKESPEARE.
LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown;
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
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