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Title: The Victories of Love, and Other Poems

Author: Coventry Patmore

Editor: Henry Morley

Release date: May 1, 2003 [eBook #4009]

Most recently updated: December 30, 2007

Language: English

Credits: Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition by David Price

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Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

THE

VICTORIES OF LOVE,

AND OTHER POEMS.

BY

COVENTRY PATMORE.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:

LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.

1888.

CONTENTS:

The Victories Of Love

Amelia

The Day After To-Morrow

The Azalea

Departure

The Toys

If I Were Dead

A Farewell

Sponsa Dei

The Rosy Bosom’d Hours

Eros

INTRODUCTION

After the very cordial reception given to the poems of “The Angel in the House,” which their author generously made accessible to the readers of these little books, it is evident that another volume from the same clear singer of the purity of household love requires no Introduction.

I have only, in the name of the readers, to thank Mr. Coventry Patmore for his liberality, and wish him—say, rather, assure him of—the best return he seeks in a wide influence for good.

H. M.

THE VICTORIES OF LOVE.

BOOK I.

I.  FROM FREDERICK GRAHAM.

Mother, I smile at your alarms!

I own, indeed, my Cousin’s charms,

But, like all nursery maladies,

Love is not badly taken twice.

Have you forgotten Charlotte Hayes,

My playmate in the pleasant days

At Knatchley, and her sister, Anne,

The