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POEMS, LETTERS, AND MEMORIES OF PHILIP SIDNEY NAIRN
ARRANGED BY
E. R. EDDISON Late of Trinity College, Oxford
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
LONDON, 1916
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Copyright © E. R. Eddison 1916
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Source ISBN: 9780007578078
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007578085
Version: 2014-12-16
P. S. F. NAIRN IN 1907.
[From, a photograph by Martin Jacolette.]
CONTENTS
Copyright
List of Illustrations
Preface
I. Introduction
II. Family, Birth, and School Life
III. Oxford and Stettin
IV. Kelantan and the Federated Malay States
V. Life and Literature
POEMS
Exile
To J. C.
Desiderium
To E. R. E. (on receiving a certain letter)
To Miss M. H.
In the Buchheide
The Dawn of Love
Retrospect
A Fallen Socrates
Reverie
Rejected Verse
Blore’s
To Smudge – my Dog
To my German Class
To Mrs Honey
For Jess
For Miss E. S.
To Phoebus Apollo
For Barbara
For Miss E. Brown
For Miss M. Brown
Advance, Australia!
‘Altogether Piffle’
Why Not?
At Parting
To the Unknown Goddess
To J. M. C.
Off Malacca
Sundown in the Rains
To E. R. E. (on news of his engagement)
Fragment
Trois Ans Après
Hélas
F. M. S. DITTIES:
To my Nearest Neighbour
The Point of View
Mischievous
The Volunteer Dance
‘He slumbered in Carcosa’s stead’
Metamorphosis
Upon the Troublesome Times
The Seats of the Mighty
Day-dreams or Nightmare?
Furious Driving
Still the Everlasting ‘Dreadnought’
Some Quatrains from the Selangor Golf Club
TRANSLATIONS:
Near to my Love
Night
