Ernest Dowson

1867-1900 / English

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Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare LongamThey are not long, the weeping and the laughter, / Love and desire and hate: / I think they have no portion in us after

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GrowthI watched the glory of her childhood change, / Half-sorrowful to find the child I knew, / (Loved long ago in lily-time),

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ExchangesAll that I had I brought, / Little enough I know; / A poor rhyme roughly wrought,

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Yvonne Of BrittanyIn your mother's apple-orchard, / Just a year ago, last spring: / Do you remember, Yvonne!

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In A Breton CemeteryThey sleep well here, / These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days / In fierce Atlantic ways;

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GrowthI watched the glory of her childhood change, / Half-sorrowful to find the child I knew, / (Loved long ago in lily-time),

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Nuns Of The Perpetual AdorationCalm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls, / These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray: / And it is one with them when evening falls,

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Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno CynaraeLast night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine / There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed / Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;

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To One In BedlamWith delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, / Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; / Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line

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JadisErewhile, before the world was old, / When violets grew and celandine, / In Cupid's train we were enrolled:

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