EBOOK ENGLISH POEMS ***
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ENGLISH
POEMS
By
Richard Le Gallienne
London: John Lane at The Bodley Head in Vigo Street.
Boston: Copland & Day
69 Cornhill.
A.D. 1895.
_First Edition
September 1892
Second Edition
October 1892
Third Edition
January 1894
Fourth Edition
Revised April 1895_
To Sissie Le Gallienne
EPISTLE DEDICATORY
_Dear Sister: Hear the conclusion of the whole matter. You dream like
mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth--for what?
That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty
pieces of silver.
Hard by us here is a 'bee-farm.' It always reminds me of a publisher's.
The bee has loved a thousand flowers, through a hundred afternoons, he
has filled little sacred cells with the gold of his stolen kisses--for
what? That the whole should be wrenched away and sold at so much 'the
comb'--as though it were a hair-comb. 'Mummy is become merchandise ...
and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.
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