Dramatis Personae HUGO,a Norman Baron and a Scholar.ERIC,a friend of Hugo�s.THURSTON,|EUSTACE,|RALPH,| Followers of Hugo.HENRY,a Page.LUKE,|HUBERT,| Monks living in a Norman Chapel.BASIL,Abbot of a Convent on the Rhine.CYRIL,a Monk of the same Convent.OSRIC,a Norwegian Adventurer, and formerly a Corsair.RUDOLPH,an Outlawed Count, and the Captain of a Band of Robbers.DAGOBERT,the Captain of some predatory Soldiers called �Free…
Ars Longa – A Song Of Pilgrimage By Adam Lindsay Gordon
Our hopes are wild imaginings, Our schemes are airy castles, Yet these, on earth, are lords and kings, And we their slaves and vassals; Your dream, forsooth, of buoyant…
An Exile�s Farewell By Adam Lindsay Gordon
The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides smooth and well. The broad Atlantic�s bed of foam Still…
After The Quarrel By Adam Lindsay Gordon
Laurence Raby�s Chamber. LAURENCE enters, a little the worse for liquor. Laurence: He never gave me a chance to speak, And he call�d her, worse than a…
A Song Of Autumn By Adam Lindsay Gordon
�Where shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, When the boughs are yellow and…
A Legend Of Madrid By Adam Lindsay Gordon
Translated from the Spanish Francesca. Crush�d and throng�d are all the places In our amphitheatre, �Midst a sea of swarming faces I can yet distinguish her; Dost thou triumph,…
A Hunting Song By Adam Lindsay Gordon
Here�s a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord, If his heart be true, I care not what his pocket may afford; And may he…
A Fragment By Adam Lindsay Gordon
They say that poison-sprinkled flowers Are sweeter in perfume Than when, untouched by deadly dew, They glowed in early bloom. They say that men condemned to die Have quaffed…
A Dedication To The Author Of �Holmby House� By Adam Lindsay Gordon
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce…
A Basket Of Flowers – From Dawn To Dusk By Adam Lindsay Gordon
Dawn On skies still and starlit White lustres take hold, And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold. And sun-glories cover The rose shed above her, Like lover and lover They flame…