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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 2
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The Biology of Autumn
ARGUMENT.-Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. The curve of life is undulatory; summer is the crest of the wave, winter the trough, spring and autumn the ascending and descending curves. No one note expresses autumn. It is a time of…
The Breath of the Snow
Narrator reflects on the weather; autumn and the coming of winter in Scotland; recounts neighbourhood gossip conveyed by his housekeeper Peggy ; [116] “That, you see, is the way a woman’s eye beholds the changes coming.”
The Hammerer
7 triplets
The Hill-Water
irregular verse
The Night-Comers
3-act play translated by William Sharp, with a note on the author by Sharp: Charles Van Lerberghe holds a peculiar place in the contemporary Belgian Renaissance. His actual literary achievement has, in bulk, been singularly meagre. A few poems, one…
The Sociology of Autumn
ARGUMENT.-I. How everyday experience dlfferentiates into the Arts and Sciences, yet how their progress is not only towards diversity, but towards Unity. II. How this Unity may come into our experience, and that from childhood. III. How cities may be…
The Song of Life’s Fine Flower
8-part song, each with a subhead, each containing 3 quatrains
Under a Purple Cloud
10 quatrains, aabb