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Chapter I

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

CHILDHOOD

King Baby

A Blessing for the BlessedToC

To Raoul BouchardToC

To-day and To-morrowToC

The Nesting HourToC

The Little SisterToC

Bath-time:

Bed-time:[13]

A Twilight SongToC

A Wintry LullabyToC

The Warm CradleToC

The Drooping FlowerToC

Mothers in the GardenToC

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The Gravel PathToC

The New PelisseToC

SolaceToC

Strange LandsToC

March MeadowsToC

A Lark:

Lambs:[25]

The RobinToC

The MouseToC

The BatToC

The SwallowToC

SnowdropsToC

FrostToC

ApplesToC

Lonely ChildrenToC

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PlaygroundsToC

FairingsToC

The Flower to the BudToC

SIX SONGS OF GIRLHOOD

Love and the MaidensToC

AwakeningsToC

The Clouded SoulToC

The HealerToC

The Open DoorToC

The FugitiveToC

THE FAITHFUL WIFE

The Faithful WifeToC

WOMANHOOD

A Woman to her PoetToC

The InfidelToC

Love Within VowsToC

The ExileToC

The Scar IndelibleToC

RevulsionToC

The CaptiveToC

Possession's AnguishToC

Treasures of PovertyToC

SolitudeToC

The Heart AsleepToC

AdversityToC

Faces of the DeadToC

The SleeperToC

StarsToC

Trelawny's GraveToC

V.R.I.ToC

January 22, 1901.

Lines on a Picture by Mary GowToC

To SerenityToC

Before a Madonna—by Botticelli.

ELEVEN SONNETS

IToC

IIToC

IIIToC

IVToC

VToC

VIToC

VIIToC

VIIIToC

IXToC

XToC

XIToC

THE OPEN AIR

Sunshine in FebruaryToC

The CuckooToC

A Song in the MorningToC

In a London SquareToC

The Call of the GreenToC

Summer EndingToC

Near AutumnToC

NovemberToC

The Common WealthToC

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable

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