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Grace before Song
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La Fraisne
A Villonaud : Mesmerism
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. 19 Ballad of the Gibbet . . . . 20
EXULTATIONS :
Aux Belles de Londres
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Cino
Na Audiart
Villonaud for this Yule
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Famam
Praise of Ysolt
For E. McC
At the Heart o' Me . . . . .
Librosque
The White Stag
In Durance
Marvoil
And Thus in Nineveh
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Cano . . . . . .
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Guido invites you thus . . 35
Night Litany
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Sestina
Piere Vidal Old
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi 45
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Altaforte
Prayer
The Tree. (From A Lume Spento) On His Own Face in a Glass
The Eyes Nils Lykke
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Planh for the Young English King
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Alba Planh
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Sestina
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Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi 45
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Prayer
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The Eyes Nils Lykke
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