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SONGS OF WOMANHOOD

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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

_Uniform with this Volume._

REALMS OF UNKNOWN KINGS.


=The Athenaeum.=--'_In this volume the critic recognises with sudden
joy the work of a true poet._'

=The Saturday Review.=--'_It is a book in which deep feeling speaks
... and it has something of that essentially poetical thought, the
thought that sees, which lies deeper than feeling._'

LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS.

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SONGS OF WOMANHOOD

by

LAURENCE ALMA TADEMA







Grant Richards
48 Leicester Square
London
1903

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable




A great number of the following verses are already known to readers of
_The Herb o' Grace_, and of the little reprint, _Songs of Childhood_.
As these pamphlets, however, did not reach the public, it has been
thought advisable to re-issue the verses in book-form, together with
three or four more collected from various reviews, and a number that
are here printed for the first time.

                                                           L.A.T.




Contents


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CHILDHOOD

    KING BABY                                                   3

    A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED                                  5

    TO RAOUL BOUCHARD                                           8

    TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW                                       10

    THE NESTING HOUR                                           11

    THE LITTLE SISTER--Bath-time                               12
                       Bed-time                                13

    A TWILIGHT SONG                                            14

    A WINTRY LULLABY                                           15

    THE WARM CRADLE                                            16

    THE DROOPING FLOWER                                        17

    MOTHERS IN THE GARDEN--I.                                  18
                          II.                                  19

    THE GRAVEL PATH                                            20

    THE NEW PELISSE                                            21

    SOLACE                                                     22

    STRANGE LANDS                                              23

    MARCH MEADOWS--A Lark                                      24
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