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Dark Ages, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial "L.". The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different parts of the British Isles and Europe. Most of them have a historic background, though set several centuries after the titular "Dark Ages". - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 23 min)

Chapters

The Dark Ages

The Bells of Venice

An Ancient Church

To the English Gipsies

Autumn Dying

The Departure for Cythera

The Village Cherub

Lady Day near Bignor

A Cottage Inscription

A Memory of Ireland

'Tír Nan Óg'

A Highland Day

To the Firs

Good-Bye

The Fairy Glen Revisited

Waiting

Near Haarlem

The Tomb of Saint Augustine at Pavia

Modern Florence

To Dante

To Petrarch

To a Lady of the Eighteenth Century

The 'Liberal' Divine

The Quarrel

The Old Fountain

Love and Death

Violets

The Gardens of the Soul

A Man to Childish Things

The Knight

Hopes

The Path

The Call to Bethlehem

A Christmas Lullaby

To the Holy Child

Mater Amabilis

Saint Stephen

Saint John at Ephesus

The Little Children

The Circumcision

The Return of the Magi

Atonement

Calvary

'The Desert shall Blossom'

Resurrection

The Ascension

A Hymn to the Holy Spirit

'Adora et Tace'

The Refuge of the Wandering

The Legend of St. Christopher

The Light Invisible

Onward

The Faithful Departed

Lethe

Ave Atque Vale