Three Sunsets and Other Poems E-Book

Lewis Carroll

• Herausgeber: BertaBooks
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll.Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. “The Path of Roses” was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. “Only a Woman’s Hair” was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. “After Three Days” was written after seeing Holman Hunt’s picture, The Finding of Christ in the Temple.The two poems, “Far Away” and “A Song of Love”, are reprinted from Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, books whose high price (made necessary by the great cost of production) has, I fear, put them out of the reach of most of my readers. “A Lesson in Latin” is reprinted from The Jabberwock, a Magazine got up among the Members of “The Girls’ Latin School, Boston, U.S.A.” The only poems, here printed for the first time, are put together under the title of “Puck Lost and Found,” having been inscribed in two books—Fairies, a poem by Allingham, illustrated by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, and Merry Elves, a story-book, by whom written I do not know, illustrated by C. O. Murray—which were presented to a little girl and boy, as a sort of memento of a visit paid by them to the author one day, on which occasion he taught them the pastime—dear to the hearts of children—of folding paper-“pistols,” which can be made to imitate, fairly well, the noise of a real one.

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THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS

Illustrated

LEWIS CARROLL

Copyright © 2017 Lewis Carroll

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THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS

Illustrated

By Lewis Carroll

Illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson

WITH TWELVE FAIRY-FANCIES

(1898)

PREFACE.

Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. “The Path of Roses” was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. “Only a Woman’s Hair” was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. “After Three Days” was written after seeing Holman Hunt’s picture, The Finding of Christ in the Temple.

The two poems, “Far Away” and “A Song of Love”, are reprinted from Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, books whose high price (made necessary by the great cost of production) has, I fear, put them out of the reach of most of my readers. “A Lesson in Latin” is reprinted from The Jabberwock, a Magazine got up among the Members of “The Girls’ Latin School, Boston, U.S.A.” The only poems, here printed for the first time, are put together under the title of “Puck Lost and Found,” having been inscribed in two books—Fairies, a poem by Allingham, illustrated by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, and Merry Elves, a story-book, by whom written I do not know, illustrated by C. O. Murray—which were presented to a little girl and boy, as a sort of memento of a visit paid by them to the author one day, on which occasion he taught them the pastime—dear to the hearts of children—of folding paper-“pistols,” which can be made to imitate, fairly well, the noise of a real one.

Jan., 1898.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FAIRIES AND NAUTILUS

FAIRIES IN BOAT

FAIRIES AND BOWER

SLEEPING FAIRIES

FAIRY RIDING ON CRAY-FISH

FAIRIES AND SQUIRREL

FAIRIES AND JONQUILS

FAIRIES AND FROG

FAIRY ON MUSHROOM

FAIRIES RIDING ON FISH

FAIRY AND WASP

FAIRIES UNDER MUSHROOM

THREE SUNSETS.

He saw her once, and in the glance,

A moment’s glance of meeting eyes,

His heart stood still in sudden trance:

He trembled with a sweet surprise—

All in the waning light she stood,

The star of perfect womanhood.

That summer-eve his heart was light:

With lighter step he trod the ground:

And life was fairer in his sight,

And music was in every sound:

He blessed the world where there could be

So beautiful a thing as she.

There once again, as evening fell

And stars were peering overhead,

Two lovers met to bid farewell:

The western sun gleamed faint and red,

Lost in a drift of purple cloud

That wrapped him like a funeral-shroud.

Long time the memory of that night—

The hand that clasped, the lips that kissed,

The form that faded from his sight

Slow sinking through the tearful mist—

In dreamy music seemed to roll

Through the dark chambers of his soul.

So after many years he came

A wanderer from a distant shore:

The street, the house, were still the same,

But those he sought were there no more:

His burning words, his hopes and fears,

Unheeded fell on alien ears.

Only the children from their play

Would pause the mournful tale to hear,

Shrinking in half-alarm away,

Or, step by step, would venture near

To touch with timid curious hands

That strange wild man from other lands.

He sat beside the busy street,