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ARGUMENT.-Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. The curve of life is undulatory; summer is the crest of the wave, winter the trough, spring and autumn the ascending and descending curves. No one note expresses autumn. It is a time of…

4 lyric quatrains: ababdeath and loss and departure, “But I’ll make a summer within my heart, /And Love, sweet Love, shall stay!”

10 quatrains, aabb

ARGUMENT.-I. How everyday experience dlfferentiates into the Arts and Sciences, yet how their progress is not only towards diversity, but towards Unity. II. How this Unity may come into our experience, and that from childhood. III. How cities may be…

7 triplets

A Berwickshire Folk-tale about a house that is shunned rather than haunted. Lived in by an eccentric single woman, Miss Clinscales, with an obsequious man servant. She is found dead one morning by maid, with her throat cut; a large amount of money is…

3, 5-line stanzas, abcab

3-act play translated by William Sharp, with a note on the author by Sharp: Charles Van Lerberghe holds a peculiar place in the contemporary Belgian Renaissance. His actual literary achievement has, in bulk, been singularly meagre. A few poems, one…

8-part song, each with a subhead, each containing 3 quatrains