English Poems

The Project Gutenberg EBook of English Poems, by Richard Le GallienneThis 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 atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: English PoemsAuthor: Richard Le GallienneRelease Date: February 2, 2004 [EBook #10913]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLISH POEMS ***Produced by Brendan Lane, carol david and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamENGLISH POEMSByRichard Le GallienneLondon: John Lane at The Bodley Head in Vigo Street.Boston: Copland & Day 69 Cornhill.A.D. 1895._First Edition September 1892Second Edition October 1892Third Edition January 1894Fourth Edition Revised April 1895_To Sissie Le GallienneEPISTLE DEDICATORY_Dear Sister: Hear the conclusion of the whole matter. You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth—for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.Hard by us here is a 'bee-farm.' It always reminds me of a publisher's. The bee has loved a thousand flowers, through ahundred afternoons, he has filled little sacred cells with the gold of his stolen kisses—for what? That the whole should bewrenched away and sold at so much 'the comb'—as though it were a hair-comb. 'Mummy is become merchandise …and ...