Rainbow and the Rose

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781775452263
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Edith Nesbit was one of the most prolific and beloved children's authors of her time, but she also had a more literary bent, as evinced in The Rainbow and the Rose, one of several of the collections of poetry she penned in her lifetime. This compendium of verse tackles topics ranging from the quotidian to the profound in a traditional rhyming style that will please poetry purists.

Table of contents

• THE RAINBOW AND THE ROSE
• Contents
• I
• The Confession
• Work
• The Jilted Lover to His Mother
• The Will to Live
• The Beatific Vision
• II
• The Beech Tree
• In Absence
• Silence
• Raison D'Etre
• The Onlooker
• The Tree of Knowledge
• At Parting
• Song
• Renunciation
• III
• Song
• To Vera, Who Asked a Song
• The Poet to His Love
• The Maiden's Prayer
• Song
• The Magic Flower
• La Derniere Robe de Soi
• The Least Possible
• En Tout Cas
• Appeal
• St. Valentine's Day
• Chagrin D'Amour
• Bridal Eve
• Love and Life
• From the Italian
• IV
• Summer Song
• The Lower Room
• Song
• May Song
• V
• To a Child (Rosamund)
• Birthday Talk for a Child (Iris)
• To Rosamund
• From the Tuscan
• Mother Song
• VI
• Possession
• Accession
• The Destroyer
• The Egoists
• The Way of Love
• To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love
• The Enchanted Garden
• The Poor Man's Guest
• In the Shallows
• "And the Rains Descended and the Floods Came"
• The Star
• VII
• Despair
• The Temptation
• Second Nature
• De Profundis
• VIII
• At the Gate
• Via Amoris
• Retro Sathanas
• The Old Dispensation
• The New Dispensation
• The Three Kings
• IX
• Chloe
• Invocation
• The Last Betrayal
• A Prayer for the King's Majesty
• True Love and New Love
• Death
• In Memory of Saretta Deakin
• For Dorothy, 18th August, 1900 - A Parting