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    Three Sunsets and Other Poems
    Three Sunsets and Other Poems
    Three Sunsets and Other Poems
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    Three Sunsets and Other Poems

    By Lewis Carroll

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    Nearly the whole of this volume is a serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. "The Path of Roses" was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. "Only a Woman's Hair" was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. "After Three Days" was written after seeing Holman Hunt's picture, The Finding of Christ in the Temple.

    The two poems, "Far Away" and "A Song of Love", are reprinted from Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, books whose high price (made necessary by the great cost of production) has, I fear, put them out of the reach of most of my readers. "A Lesson in Latin" is reprinted from The Jabberwock, a Magazine got up among the Members of "The Girls' Latin School, Boston, U.S.A." The only poems, here printed for the first time, are put together under the title of "Puck Lost and Found," having been inscribed in two books—Fairies, a poem by Allingham, illustrated by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, and Merry Elves, a story-book, by whom written I do not know, illustrated by C. O. Murray—which were presented to a little girl and boy, as a sort of memento of a visit paid by them to the author one day, on which occasion he taught them the pastime—dear to the hearts of children—of folding paper-"pistols," which can be made to imitate, fairly well, the noise of a real one.
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    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 28, 2016
    ISBN9783736413061
    Three Sunsets and Other Poems
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    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of word play and imagination. Carroll’s work has been enjoyed by many generations across the globe.

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      Three Sunsets and Other Poems - Lewis Carroll

      PREFACE.

      THREE SUNSETS.

      THE PATH OF ROSES.

      THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

      SOLITUDE.

      FAR AWAY.

      BEATRICE.

      STOLEN WATERS.

      THE WILLOW-TREE.

      ONLY A WOMAN’S HAIR.

      THE SAILOR’S WIFE.

      AFTER THREE DAYS.

      FACES IN THE FIRE.

      A LESSON IN LATIN.

      PUCK LOST AND FOUND.

      A SONG OF LOVE.

      WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.

      THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS

      BY LEWIS CARROLL

      PREFACE.

      Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. The Path of Roses was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. Only a Woman’s Hair was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. After Three Days was written after seeing Holman Hunt’s picture, The Finding of Christ in the Temple.

      The two poems, Far Away and A Song of Love, are reprinted from Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, books whose high price (made necessary by the great cost of production) has, I fear, put them out of the reach of most of my readers. A Lesson in Latin is reprinted from The Jabberwock, a Magazine got up among the Members of The Girls’ Latin School, Boston, U.S.A. The only poems, here printed for the first time, are put together under the title of Puck Lost and Found, having been inscribed in two books—Fairies, a poem by Allingham, illustrated by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, and Merry Elves, a story-book, by whom written I do not know, illustrated by C. O. Murray—which were presented to a little girl and boy, as a sort of memento of a visit paid by them to the author one day, on which occasion he taught them the pastime—dear to the hearts of children—of folding paper-pistols, which can be made to imitate, fairly well, the noise of a

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