Songs of Womanhood   By: Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865?-1940)

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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

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CHILDHOOD

KING BABY 3

A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED 5

TO RAOUL BOUCHARD 8

TO DAY AND TO MORROW 10

THE NESTING HOUR 11

THE LITTLE SISTER Bath time 12 Bed time 13

A TWILIGHT SONG 14

A WINTRY LULLABY 15

THE WARM CRADLE 16

THE DROOPING FLOWER 17

MOTHERS IN THE GARDEN I. 18 II. 19

THE GRAVEL PATH 20

THE NEW PELISSE 21

SOLACE 22

STRANGE LANDS 23

MARCH MEADOWS A Lark 24 Lambs 25

THE ROBIN 26

THE MOUSE 27

THE BAT 28

THE SWALLOW 29

SNOWDROPS 30

FROST 32

APPLES 33

LONELY CHILDREN I. 34 II. 35

PLAYGROUNDS 36

FAIRINGS 38

THE FLOWER TO THE BUD 40

SIX SONGS OF GIRLHOOD

LOVE AND THE MAIDENS 43

AWAKENINGS 44

THE CLOUDED SOUL 46

THE HEALER 47

THE OPEN DOOR 48

THE FUGITIVE 49

THE FAITHFUL WIFE 53

WOMANHOOD

A WOMAN TO HER POET 63

THE INFIDEL 64

LOVE WITHIN VOWS 65

THE EXILE 66

THE SCAR INDELIBLE 67

REVULSION 68

THE CAPTIVE 69

POSSESSION'S ANGUISH 70

TREASURES OF POVERTY 72

SOLITUDE 73

THE HEART ASLEEP 74

ADVERSITY 75

FACES OF THE DEAD 76

THE SLEEPER 80

STARS 81

TRELAWNY'S GRAVE 82