  Title: Songs of Womanhood Author: Laurence Alma-Tadema Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell |
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Songs of Womanhood
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Uniform with this Volume.
REALMS OF UNKNOWN KINGS.
The AthenÆum.—'In this volume the critic recognises with sudden joy the work of a true poet.'
The Saturday Review.—'It is a book in which deep feeling speaks ... and it has something of that essentially poetical thought, the thought that sees, which lies deeper than feeling.'
LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS.
Songs of Womanhood
BY
LAURENCE ALMA TADEMA
GRANT RICHARDS
48 LEICESTER SQUARE
LONDON
1903
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable
A great number of the following verses are already known to readers of The Herb o' Grace, and of the little reprint, Songs of Childhood. As these pamphlets, however, did not reach the public, it has been thought advisable to re-issue the verses in book-form, together with three or four more collected from various reviews, and a number that are here printed for the first time.
L.A.T.
Contents
| PAGE | |
| CHILDHOOD | |
| KING BABY | 3 |
| A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED | 5 |
| TO RAOUL BOUCHARD | 8 |
| TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW | 10 |
| THE NESTING HOUR | 11 |
| THE LITTLE SISTER— | |
| Bath-time | 12 |
| Bed-time | 13 |
| A TWILIGHT SONG | 14 |
| A WINTRY LULLABY | 15 |
| THE WARM CRADLE | 16 |
| THE DROOPING FLOWER | 17 |
| MOTHERS IN THE GARDEN— | |
| I. | 18 |
| II. | 19 |
| THE GRAVEL PATH | 20 |
| THE NEW PELISSE | 21 |
| SOLACE | 22 |
| STRANGE LANDS | 23 |
| MARCH MEADOWS— | |
| A Lark | 24 |
| Lambs | 25 |
| THE ROBIN | 26 |
| THE MOUSE | 27 |
| THE BAT | 28 |
| THE SWALLOW | 29 |
| SNOWDROPS | 30 |
| FROST | 32 |
| APPLES | 33 |
| LONELY CHILDREN— | |
| I. | 34 |
| II. | 35 |
| PLAYGROUNDS | 36 |
| FAIRINGS | 38 |
| THE FLOWER TO THE BUD | 40 |
| SIX SONGS OF GIRLHOOD | |
| LOVE AND THE MAIDENS | 43 |
| AWAKENINGS | 44 |
| THE CLOUDED SOUL | 46 |
| THE HEALER | 47 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | 48 |
| THE FUGITIVE | 49 |
| THE FAITHFUL WIFE | 53 |
| WOMANHOOD | |
| A WOMAN TO HER POET | 63 |
| THE INFIDEL | 64 |
| LOVE WITHIN VOWS | 65 |
| THE EXILE | 66 |
| THE SCAR INDELIBLE | 67 |
| REVULSION | 68 |
| THE CAPTIVE | 69 |
| POSSESSION'S ANGUISH | 70 |
| TREASURES OF POVERTY | 72 |
| SOLITUDE | 73 |
| THE HEART ASLEEP | 74 |
| ADVERSITY | 75 |
| FACES OF THE DEAD | 76 |
| THE SLEEPER | 80 |
| STARS | 81 |
| TRELAWNY'S GRAVE | 82 |
| V.R.I.—JANUARY 22, 1901 | 83 |
| LINES ON A PICTURE BY MARY GOW | 84 |
| TO SERENITY | 85 |
| ELEVEN SONNETS | 89 |
| THE OPEN AIR | |
| SUNSHINE IN FEBRUARY | 103 |
| THE CUCKOO | 104 |
| A SONG IN THE MORNING | 107 |
| IN A LONDON SQUARE | 109 |
| THE CALL OF THE GREEN | 111 |
| SUMMER ENDING | 112 |
| NEAR AUTUMN | 114 |
| NOVEMBER | 115 |
| THE COMMON WEALTH | 117 |
