Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul - And Other Poems

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Eidolon, by Walter R. Cassels This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Eidolon The Course of a Soul and Other Poems Author: Walter R. Cassels Release Date: December 13, 2009 [EBook #30672] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EIDOLON *** Produced by Ritu Aggarwal, Thanks to the National Library of Australia and the Thomas Cooper Library (University of South Carolina) for supplying pages for this work, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net EIDOLON, OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL; AND OTHER POEMS, BY WALTER R. CASSELS LONDON WILLIAM PICKERING 1850 TO CHARLES PEEL, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND, W. R. CASSELS. [Pg vii]CONTENTS. Page Eidolon 1 Alcesté 93 Pygmalion 136 Miscellaneous Poems. Ode to Fancy 159 What is a sigh? 165 Ione 167 Reality 169 Retrospection 172 The Stormy Petrel 181 To —— 183 The Mermaid 185 The Spirit of the Air 190 Why do I love thee? 195 Lady Annabel 196 To Jenny Lind 201 The Gold Seekers 204 To Woman 209 The Poet 212 Evening 224 Life 226 Sorrow 229 Sonnets. [Pg viii] I. Written at Ulleswater 233 II. "There is a spell by which the panting soul" 234 III. "We wander on through life as pilgrims do" 235 IV.