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Title: Alcyone

Author: Archibald Lampman

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22833]

Language: English

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ALCYONE

by

ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN

OTTAWA
JAMES OGILVY
1899

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty

TO THE MEMORY OF
MY FATHER
HIMSELF A POET
WHO FIRST INSTRUCTED ME
IN THE ART
OF VERSE.

CONTENTS

ALCYONE 1

IN MARCH 4

THE CITY OF THE END OF THINGS 5

THE SONG SPARROW 9

INTER VIAS 10

REFUGE 12

APRIL NIGHT 13

PERSONALITY 14

TO MY DAUGHTER 15

CHIONE 17

TO THE CRICKET 24

THE SONG OF PAN 25

THE ISLET AND THE PALM 27

A VISION OF TWILIGHT 28

EVENING 33

THE CLEARER SELF 34

TO THE PROPHETIC SOUL 36

THE LAND OF PALLAS 38

AMONG THE ORCHARDS 49

THE POET'S SONG 50

A THUNDERSTORM 56

THE CITY 57

SAPPHICS 60

VOICES OF EARTH 62

PECCAVI, DOMINE 63

AN ODE TO THE HILLS 66

INDIAN SUMMER 71

GOOD SPEECH 72

THE BETTER DAY 73

WHITE PANSIES 75

WE TOO SHALL SLEEP 77

THE AUTUMN WASTE 78

VIVIA PERPETUA 79