Verses (1898)
by Blanche Edith Baughan
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VERSES



By
B. E. BAUGHAN



Westminster
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO
1898

Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.

My thanks are due to the Editors of “The Author,” “The Speaker,” and “The Literary World,” for permission to republish certain of the pieces now appearing in this volume.

B. E. B.

Contents
Page
February 7
Spring’s Chorister 8
An Inquest 11
Golden-Mouth 14
Sing Happily 16
Death-in-Life 18
The Summons 19
To Night 20
Five Prayers 22
Church 24
Forgiven 25
Saint Margaret 26
Ireland 34
Trafalgar Square 35
Spring in London 36
The Terrace 38
Dives and Lazarus 39
Renaissance 42
Dethroned, Rethroned 46
Twilight by the Sea 48
A March Evening 50
Gaffer’s Last Journey 54
Barbara 57
The Pool and the Kingfisher 59
Naxos 61
Lustleigh Cleave 62
The Ishmaelite 63
The Neighbour 66
Home 69
The First Night 70
The First Morning 71
Cottage Days 72
To Life 80
The Brink of Battle 81
Pebbles 84
Hill Dutiful 86
Light and Night 91
The Briar Rose 95
Comfort 100
A Northern Mænad 101
The Unknown Quest 105
Nereia 107
Leon 128


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