Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

CONTENTS I. The Trystyng II. Hys Fyve Rules III. Scarmoges IV. Hys Nouryture V.Byckerment VI. Dyscomfyture VII. Sad Souvenaunce Echoes A Sea Dirge Ye Carpette Knyghte Hiawatha’s Photographing Melancholetta A Valentine The Three Voices:— The First Voice The Second Voice The Third Voice ………………………………………………………. One winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, And supper, with cigars and wine, Was waiting in the study. There was a strangeness in the room, And Something white and wavy Was standing near me in the gloom— I took it for the carpet-broom Left by that careless slavey.