The Ascent of Man
byMathilde Blind
London Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1889Contents.
- The Ascent of Man.
Part I.
Part II.
Part III.
- Poems of the Open Air.
- The Sower 113
- A Spring Song 116
- April Rain 117
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- The Sleeping Beauty 119
- Apple‐Blossom 120
- The Music‐Lesson 122
- The Teamster 124
- A Highland Village 136
- On A Forsaken Lark’s Nest 138
- Reapers 140
- Apple‐Gathering 142
- The Songs of Summer 145
- Autumn Tints 146
- Green Leaves and Sere 148
- The Hunter’s Moon 149
- The Passing Year 151
- The Robin Redbreast 152
- The Red Sunsets, 1883 154
- The Red Sunsets, 1883 155
- On the Lighthouse at Antibes 156
- Cagnes 157
- A Winter Landscape 158
- Love In Exile.
Songs.
- “Thou Walkest With Me” 161
- “I Was Again Beside My Love” 162
- “I Am Athirst, But Not For Wine” 164
- “I Would I Were the Glow‐Worm” 165
- “Dost Thou Remember?” 167
- “O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon” 169
- “Why Will You Haunt Me Unawares?” 171
- “When You Wake From Troubled Slumbers” 173
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- “In a Lonesome Burial‐Place” 175
- “On Life’s Long Round” 177
- “Ah, Yesterday Was Dark and Drear” 178
- “Yea, the Roses Are Still On Fire” 179
- “We Met As Strangers” 180
- “You Make the Sunshine Of My Heart” 182
- “Dear, When I Look Into Your Eyes” 184
- “Ah, If You Knew” 186
- “Your Looks Have Touched My Soul” 187
- “Oh, Brown Eyes With Long Black Lashes” 188
- “Once On a Golden Day” 190
- “What Magic Is There In Thy Mien?” 192
- Heart’s‐Ease 194
- Untimely Love 195
- The After‐Glow 196
- L’Envoi 197