Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir

Murray, Robert Fuller

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9782819931263
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of The Scarlet Gown, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks. To him, indeed, success and the rewards of this world, money, and praise, did by no means seem things to be snatched at. To him success meant earning by his pen the very modest sum which sufficed for his wants, and the leisure necessary for serious essays in poetry. Fate denied him even this, in spite of his charming natural endowment of humour, of tenderness, of delight in good letters, and in nature. He died young; he was one of those whose talent matures slowly, and he died before he came into the full possession of his intellectual kingdom. He had the ambition to excel, ??????????????, as the Homeric motto of his University runs, and he was on the way to excellence when his health broke down

Table of contents

• R. F. MURRAY—1863-1893
• THE WASTER SINGING AT MIDNIGHT.
• TO NUMBER 27x.
• THE WASTER’S PRESENTIMENT
• A DECEMBER DAY
• ΑΙΕΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΕΥΕΙΝ
• IMITATED FROM WORDSWORTH
• A TENNYSONIAN FRAGMENT
• MOONLIGHT NORTH AND SOUTH
• WINTER AT ST. ANDREWS
• PATRIOTISM
• SLEEP FLIES ME
• LOVE’S PHANTOM
• COME BACK TO ST. ANDREWS
• THE SOLITARY
• TO ALFRED TENNYSON—1883
• ICHABOD
• AT A HIGH CEREMONY
• THE WASTED DAY
• INDOLENCE
• DAWN SONG
• CAIRNSMILL DEN—TUNE: ‘A ROVING’
• A LOST OPPORTUNITY
• THE CAGED THRUSH
• MIDNIGHT
• WHERE’S THE USE
• A MAY-DAY MADRIGAL
• SONG IS NOT DEAD
• A SONG OF TRUCE
• ONE TEAR
• A LOVER’S CONFESSION
• TRAFALGAR SQUARE
• A SUMMER MORNING
• WELCOME HOME
• AN INVITATION
• FICKLE SUMMER
• SORROW’S TREACHERY
• THE CROWN OF YEARS
• HOPE DEFERRED
• THE LIFE OF EARTH
• GOLDEN DREAM
• TEARS
• THE HOUSE OF SLEEP
• THE OUTCAST’S FAREWELL
• YET A LITTLE SLEEP
• LOST LIBERTY
• AN AFTERTHOUGHT
• TO J. R.
• THE TEMPTED SOUL
• YOUTH RENEWED
• VANITY OF VANITIES
• LOVE’S WORSHIP RESTORED
• BELOW HER WINDOW
• REQUIEM
• THOU ART QUEEN
• IN TIME OF DOUBT
• THE GARDEN OF SIN
• URSULA
• UNDESIRED REVENGE
• POETS
• A PRESENTIMENT
• A BIRTHDAY GIFT
• CYCLAMEN
• LOVE RECALLED IN SLEEP
• FOOTSTEPS IN THE STREET
• FOR A PRESENT OF ROSES
• IN TIME OF SORROW
• A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE—FROM VICTOR HUGO
• THE FIDDLER
• THE FIRST MEETING
• A CRITICISM OF CRITICS
• MY LADY
• PARTNERSHIP IN FAME
• A CHRISTMAS FANCY
• THE BURIAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
• THE DEATH OF WILLIAM RUFUS
• AFTER WATERLOO
• DEATH AT THE WINDOW
• MAKE-BELIEVES
• A COINCIDENCE
• ART’S DISCIPLINE
• THE TRUE LIBERAL
• A LATE GOOD NIGHT
• AN EXILE’S SONG
• FOR SCOTLAND
• THE HAUNTED CHAMBER
• NIGHTFALL
• IN TIME OF SICKNESS
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