Poetic Openings : Ernest Dowson to Ernest Dowson

Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Vain Resolves : First Line : I said: “There is an end of my desire:
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Vanitas : First Line : Beyond the need of weeping,
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Vesperal : First Line : Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Villanelle Of His Lady's Treasures : First Line : I took her dainty eyes, as well
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Villanelle Of Marguerites : First Line : “A little, passionately, not at all?“

Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Villanelle Of Sunset : First Line : Come hither, Child! and rest:
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam : First Line : They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : What Is Love? : First Line : What is Love?
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : You Would Have Understood Me, Had You Waited : First Line : Ah, dans ces mornes sèjours
Poet : Ernest Dowson : Poem : Yvonne Of Brittany : First Line : In your mother’s apple-orchard,