The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson







The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson by Ernest Dowson et al

Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.

This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission.

Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.

**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**

**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**

*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****

Title: The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson

Author: Ernest Dowson et al

Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8497]

[This file was first posted on July 16, 2003]

Edition: 10

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1



START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE POEMS AND PROSE OF ERNEST DOWSON ***



E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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.

ERNEST DOWSON

I

The death of Ernest Dowson will mean very little to the world at large, but it will mean a great deal to the few people who care passionately for poetry. A little book of verses, the manuscript of another, a one-act play in verse, a few short stories, two novels written in collaboration, some translations from the French, done for money that is all that was lef