Chapter I: Front Matter

PHANTASMAGORIA
AND OTHER POEMS

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BY
LEWIS CARROLL

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_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_
BY
ARTHUR B. FROST

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MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1911

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RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

_First published in_ 1869.

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Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.

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Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on the friendly knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell.

Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!

Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguilded.
Ah, happy he who owns the tenderest joy,
The heart-love of a child!

Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days,
Albeit bright memories of the sunlit shore
Yet haunt my dreaming gaze.

CONTENTS

PAGE PHANTASMAGORIA, in Seven Cantos:— I. The Trystyng 1 II. Hys Fyve Rules 10 III. Scarmoges 18 IV. Hys Nouryture 26 V. Byckerment 34 VI. Dyscomfyture 44 VII. Sad Souvenaunce 53 ECHOES 58 A SEA DIRGE 59 YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64 HIAWATHA’S PHOTOGRAPHING 66 MELANCHOLETTA 78 A VALENTINE 84 THE THREE VOICES:— The First Voice 87 The Second Voice 98 The Third Voice 109 TÈMA CON VARIAZIÒNI 118 A GAME OF FIVES 120 POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123 SIZE AND TEARS 131 ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN 136 THE LANG COORTIN’ 140 FOUR RIDDLES 152 FAME’S PENNY-TRUMPET 163

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