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The Horses of the Hills and Other Verses [by Marie E. J. Pitt, 1911]

25 April 2014 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This book of poetry by Marie E. J. Pitt was published in 1911.]

The Horses of the Hills

And other Verses

By

Marie E. J. Pitt


Contents

[Acknowledgment]

The Horses of the Hills
Veiled
The Reiver
Gold and Grey
Ballade of the Road
Mountain Myrtle
Woman
The Clan Call
Ballade of Devonport
The Old Love
Lost
Adieu
Discontent
Ishmael
’Twixt Briton and Boer
Ballade of Dreams
Spindrift
Ballade of Illusion
To-night
Rejected
Reveille
The Enslavement
Evil
Ballade of Autumn
June Roses
A Year Ago
The Destroyers
The Lost Fairies
The Rebel
Watching
The Talisman
The Heathen of To-day
A Sea Song
A Gallop of Fire
Anathema
Red Poppies — White Roses
At Evensong
Song of the Axe
Ships
Recompense
Society
Bitter-Sweet
The City of Sloth
The Undersong
Disinherited
Wy Yung
A Fragment
La Misere
Crooked River
Soul Ferry
Prescience
Ta-Mahinna
Hamilton
Phases
Look Up
The Keening
City Hunger

Melbourne:
Thomas C. Lothian
100 Flinders Street

First impression July 1st, 1911

The Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., 189 Lit. Collins St., Melbourne



Source:
Marie E. J. Pitt, The Horses of the Hills and Other Verses, Melbourne: Specialty Press, 1911

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