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• River-Reeds. Poems; originally anonymously published (Anna Kingsford was yet very young). London, 1866. Joseph Masters, London (Aldersgate Street and New Bond Street), 1866. 71 pp.

Information: This book was today a rare one, quite difficult to find, until it was added to the Anna Kingsford Site. When the book was published, Anna Kingsford was yet very young, especially when the poems were first published in different magazines.

Below we have a photocopy of its original cover, its title pages, and the complete Html text of the book:

RIVER-REEDS.

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LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND NEW BOND STREET.

MDCCCLXVI.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND SON,

ALDERSGATE STREET.

TO YOU,

OUR FATHER IN PARADISE,

WHOM LIVING, WE DID DEARLY LOVE,

YOUR LITTLE DAUGHTER

DEDICATES THEE.

CONTENTS.

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POEMS (pages)

1 – RIVER-REEDS (1)

2 – DOUBTING (3)

3 – A SONG OF THE DAWNING IN SUMMER (14)

4 – HYLAS (16)

5 – THREE SUNSETS (20)

6 – SUNSET THOUGHTS (29)

7 – S. STEPHEN’S DEATH (30)

8 – IN THE FIRE LIGHT (32)

9 – THE ORIEL WINDOW (35)

10 – “SISTER LOUISE DE LA MISERICORDE” (37)

11 – WAR (39)

12 – A VISION OF PHILOSOPHY (41)

13 – “FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN;

HE WAS LOST, AND IS FOUND” (45)

14 – THE MARIES (51)

15 – HYMN (53)

16 – WORDS IN THE SEA-SAND (55)

17 – “BUT WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED OF ALL HER CHILDREN” (57)

18 – A ROUND OF DAYS (59)

19 – TRUST (61)

20 – A SONG FOR MY SWEETHEART (64)

21 – ONCE IN A LIFE (66)

22 – NIGHTFALL (69)

23 – “THE LAST” (71)

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