ERNEST DOWSON I

THE POEMS OF ERNEST DOWSON TO MISSIE (A. P.)

IN PREFACE: FOR ADELAIDE

VERSES

THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE THE CHARACTERS A MOON MAIDEN PIERROT THE SCENE

DECORATIONS BEYOND

DILEMMAS STORIES AND STUDIES IN SENTIMENT

THE DIARY OF A SUCCESSFUL MAN

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE I

AN ORCHESTRAL VIOLIN I

SOUVENIRS OF AN EGOIST

THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Title: The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson

Author: Ernest Dowson et al

Edition: 10

Language: English

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THE POEMS AND PROSE

OF

ERNEST DOWSON

with a MEMOIR by ARTHUR SYMONS

CONTENTS

MEMOIR. By Arthur Symons

POEMS

IN PREFACE: FOR ADELAIDE

A CORONAL

VERSES:

  Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
  Villanelle of Sunset
  My Lady April
  To One in Bedlam
  Ad Domnulam Suam
  Amor Umbratilis
  Amor Profanus
  Villanelle of Marguerites
  Yvonne of Brittany
  Benedictio Domini
  Growth
  Ad Manus Puellae
  Flos Lunae
  Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
  Vanitas
  Exile
  Spleen
  O Mors! quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem
    habenti in substantiis suis
  "You would have understood me, had you waited"
  April Love
  Vain Hope
  Vain Resolves
  A Requiem
  Beata Solitudo
  Terre Promise
  Autumnal
  In Tempore Senectutis
  Villanelle of his Lady's Treasures
  Gray Nights
  Vesperal
  The Garden of Shadow
  Soli cantare periti Arcades
  On the Birth of a Friend's Child
  Extreme Unction
  Amantium Irae
  Impenitentia Ultima
  A Valediction
  Sapientia Lunae
  "Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad"
  Seraphita
  Epigram
  Quid non speremus, Amantes?
  Chanson sans Paroles

THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE

DECORATIONS:

  Beyond
  De Amore
  The Dead Child
  Carthusians
  The Three Witches
  Villanelle of the Poet's Road
  Villanelle of Acheron
  Saint Germain-en-Laye
  After Paul Verlaine-I
  After Paul Verlaine-II
  After Paul Verlaine-III
  After Paul Verlaine-IV
  To his Mistress
  Jadis
  In a Breton Cemetery
  To William Theodore Peters on his Renaissance Cloak
  The Sea-Change
  Dregs
  A Song
  Breton Afternoon
  Venite Descendamus
  Transition
  Exchanges
  To a Lady asking Foolish Questions
  Rondeau
  Moritura
  Libera Me
  To a Lost Love
  Wisdom
  In Spring
  A Last Word

PROSE

THE DIARY OF A SUCCESSFUL MAN A CASE OF CONSCIENCE AN ORCHESTRAL VIOLIN SOUVENIRS OF AN EGOIST THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

ERNEST DOWSON was born in 1867 at Lea, in Kent, England. Most of his life was spent in France. He died February 21, 1900.

The poems in this volume were published at varying intervals from his Oxford days at Queens College to the time of his death. The prose works here included were published in 1886, 1890, 1892 and in 1893.