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Richard Le Gallienne

1866–1947

Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English poet, critic and novelist, born at Liverpool. A member of the 1890s circle of the Rhymers’ Club and the Yellow Book, he moved to the United States in 1903 and spent much of his later life there.

His books of verse include English Poems (1892), New Poems (1909) and The Lonely Dancer (1913), and a free paraphrase of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Poems (259)

  1. May is building her House
  2. The Wife from Fairyland
  3. A Caravan from China comes
  4. Song
  5. To the Reader
  6. Paolo and Francesca
  7. Preludes
  8. I make this rhyme of my lady and me
  9. But, Song, arise thee on a greater wing
  10. Once
  11. The Day of the Two Daffodils
  12. Why Did She Marry Him?
  13. The Lamp and the Star
  14. Orbits
  15. Never--Ever
  16. Love's Poor
  17. Comfort of Dante
  18. A Lost Hour
  19. Met Once More
  20. A June Lily
  21. Regret
  22. Love Afar
  23. Canst thou be true across so many miles
  24. Postscript
  25. To My Wife, Mildred
  26. Cor Cordium
  27. The Destined Maid: A Prayer
  28. With Some Old Love Verses
  29. Comfort at Parting
  30. Happy Letter
  31. Primrose and Violet
  32. 'Juliet and Her Romeo'
  33. In Her Diary
  34. Two Parables
  35. A Love-Letter
  36. In the Night
  37. The Constant Lover
  38. The Wonder-Child
  39. The House of Venus
  40. Satiety
  41. What of the Darkness?
  42. Ad Cimmerios
  43. Old Love-Letters
  44. Death in a London Lodging
  45. Time Flies
  46. So Soon Tired!
  47. Autumn
  48. A Frost Fancy
  49. The World Is Wide
  50. Saint Charles
  51. Good-Night
  52. Beatrice
  53. A Child's Evensong
  54. An Epitaph on a Goldfish
  55. Beauty Accurst
  56. To a Dead Friend
  57. Sunset in the City
  58. The City in Moonlight
  59. Inscriptions
  60. The Décadent to His Soul
  61. To a Poet
  62. The Passionate Reader to His Poet
  63. Matthew Arnold
  64. 'Tennyson' at the Farm
  65. 'The Desk's Dry Wood'
  66. A Library in a Garden
  67. On the Morals of Poets
  68. Faery Gold
  69. All Sung
  70. Corydon's Farewell to His Pipe
  71. Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy
  72. An Ode to Spring
  73. Tree-Worship
  74. A Ballad of London
  75. Paris Day by Day: A Familiar Epistle
  76. Alfred Tennyson
  77. Professor Minto
  78. On Mr. Gladstone's Retirement
  79. Omar Khayyam
  80. The Second Crucifixion
  81. An Impression
  82. Natural Religion
  83. Faith Reborn
  84. Hesperides
  85. Jenny Dead
  86. My Books
  87. Mammon
  88. Art
  89. To a Poet
  90. A New Year Letter
  91. Snatch
  92. My Maiden Vote
  93. The Animalcule on Man
  94. Come, My Celia
  95. Time's Monotone
  96. O Golden Day! O Silver Night!
  97. Love's Exchange
  98. To a Simple Housewife
  99. Love's Wisdom
  100. Home
  101. Love's Landmarks
  102. If, after All...!
  103. Spirit of Sadness
  104. An Inscription
  105. The Lonely Dancer
  106. Flos Aevorum
  107. All the words in all the world
  108. I said--I care not if I can
  109. All the wide world is but the thought of you
  110. Lightnings may flicker round my head
  111. The afternoon is lonely for your face
  112. Sore in need was I of a faithful friend
  113. I thought, before my sunlit twentieth year
  114. To a Bird at Dawn
  115. Alma Venus
  116. Ah! did you ever hear the Spring
  117. April
  118. Shadow
  119. June
  120. Green Silence
  121. Summer Songs
  122. To a Wild Bird
  123. I crossed the orchard, walking home
  124. I meant to do my work to-day--
  125. How fast the year is going by!
  126. August Moonlight
  127. To a Rose
  128. Invitation
  129. Summer Going
  130. Autumn Treasure
  131. Winter
  132. The Mystic Friends
  133. The Country Gods
  134. To One on a Journey
  135. Her Portrait Immortal
  136. Spring's Promises
  137. April is in the world again
  138. Singing go I, seeking for ever a song
  139. Who was it swept against my door just now
  140. Face in the tomb, that lies so still
  141. I know not in what place again I'll meet
  142. Resurrection
  143. When the long day has faded to its end
  144. Her eyes are bluebells now, her voice a bird
  145. The dead arose. Long had they dreamed
  146. The bloom upon the grape I ask no more
  147. The Friend
  148. Adoration
  149. At last I got a letter from the dead
  150. Songs for Fragoletta
  151. A Ballad of Woman
  152. An Easter Hymn
  153. Ballad of the Seven O'Clock Whistle
  154. Morality
  155. For the Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe
  156. To Ralph Waldo Emerson
  157. Richard Watson Gilder
  158. In a Copy of Fitzgerald's "Omar"
  159. A Ballad of Too Much Beauty
  160. Spring in the Paris Catacombs
  161. A Face in a Book
  162. Time, Beauty's Friend
  163. Young Love
  164. Lovers
  165. For a Picture by Rose Cecil O'Neil
  166. Love in Spain
  167. The Eyes That Come from Ireland
  168. A Ballad of the Kind Little Creatures
  169. Blue Flower
  170. The Heart Unseen
  171. The Shimmer of the Sound
  172. A Song of Singers
  173. The End
  174. If after times
  175. An Echo from Horace
  176. Ballade of the Oldest Duel in the World
  177. Sorcery
  178. The Dryad
  179. May is Back
  180. Moon-Marketing
  181. Two Birthdays
  182. Song
  183. The Faithful Lover
  184. Love's Tenderness
  185. Anima Mundi
  186. Ballade of the Unchanging Beloved
  187. Love's Arithmetic
  188. Beauty's Wardrobe
  189. The Valley
  190. Ballade of the Bees of Trebizond
  191. Broken Tryst
  192. The Rival
  193. The Quarrel
  194. Lovers
  195. Shadows
  196. After Tibullus
  197. A Warning
  198. Primum Mobile
  199. The Last Tryst
  200. The Heart on the Sleeve
  201. At Her Feet
  202. Reliquiae
  203. Love's Proud Farewell
  204. The Rose Has Left the Garden
  205. The Gardens of Adonis
  206. Nature the Healer
  207. Love Eternal
  208. The Loveliest Face and the Wild Rose
  209. As in the Woodland I Walk
  210. To a Mountain Spring
  211. Noon
  212. A Rainy Day
  213. In the City
  214. Country Largesse
  215. Morn
  216. The Source
  217. Autumn
  218. The Rose in Winter
  219. The Frozen Stream
  220. Winter Magic
  221. A Lover's Universe
  222. To the Golden Wife
  223. Buried Treasure
  224. The New Husbandman
  225. Paths that Wind
  226. The Immortal Gods
  227. Ballade of Woman
  228. The Magic Flower
  229. Ballade of Love's Cloister
  230. An Old Love Letter
  231. Too Late
  232. The Door Ajar
  233. Chipmunk
  234. Ballade of the Dead Face that Never Dies
  235. The End of Laughter
  236. The Song that Lasts
  237. The Broker of Dreams
  238. At the Sign of the Lyre
  239. To Madame Jumel
  240. To a Beautiful Old Lady
  241. To Lucy Hinton; December 19, 1921
  242. The World's Musqueteer: To Marshal Foch
  243. We Are With France
  244. Satan: 1920
  245. Under Which King?
  246. Man, the Destroyer
  247. The Long Purposes of God
  248. Ballade to a Departing God
  249. Ballade of the Absent Guest
  250. Tobacco Next
  251. Ballade of the Paid Puritan
  252. The Overworked Ghost
  253. The Valiant Girls
  254. Not Sour Grapes
  255. Ballade of Reading Bad Books
  256. Ballade of the Making of Songs
  257. Ballade of Running Away with Life
  258. To a Contemner of the Past
  259. An Old Man's Song

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