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    A Lover's Diary, Complete
    A Lover's Diary, Complete
    A Lover's Diary, Complete
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    A Lover's Diary, Complete

    By Gilbert Parker

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      A Lover's Diary, Complete - Gilbert Parker

      Project Gutenberg's A Lover's Diary, (Poetry) Complete, by Gilbert Parker

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: A Lover's Diary, (Poetry) Complete

      Author: Gilbert Parker

      Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6274]

      Last Updated: November 5, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LOVER'S DIARY, (POETRY) COMPLETE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      A LOVER'S DIARY

      By Gilbert Parker

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      THE VISION

      ABOVE THE DIN

      LOVE'S COURAGE

      LOVE'S LANGUAGE

      ASPIRATION

      THE MEETING

      THE NEST

      LOVE IS ENOUGH

      AT THE PLAY

      SO CALM THE WORLD

      THE WELCOME

      THE SHRINE

      THE TORCH

      IN ARMOUR,

      IN THEE MY ART

      DENIAL

      TESTAMENT

      CAPTIVITY

      O MYSTIC WINGS

      WAS IT THY FACE?

      A WOMAN'S HAND

      ONE FACE I SEE

      MOTHER

      WHEN FIRST I SAW THEE

      THE FATES LAUGH

      AS ONE WHO WAITETH

      THE SEALING

      THE PLEDGE

      LOVE'S TRIBUTARIES

      THE CHOICE

      RECOGNITION

      THE WAY OF DREAMS

      THE ACCOLADE

      FALLEN IDOLS

      TENNYSON

      DREAMS

      THE BRIDE

      THE WRAITH

      SURRENDER

      THE CITADEL

      MALFEASANCE

      ANNUNCIATION

      VANISHED DREAMS

      INTO THY LAND

      DIVIDED

      WE MUST LIVE ON

      YET LIFE IS SWEET

      LOST FOOTSTEPS

      THE CLOSED DOOR

      THE CHALICE

      MIO DESTINO

      I HAVE BEHELD

      TOO SOON AWAY

      THE TREASURE

      DAHIN

      LOVE'S USURY

      THE DECREE

      'TIS MORNING NOW

      SACRIFICE

      SHINE ON

      SO, THOU ART GONE

      THE THOUSAND THINGS

      THE SEA

      THE CHART

      REVEALING

      OVERCOMING

      WHITHER NOW

      ARARAT

      AS LIGHT LEAPS UP

      THE DARKENED WAY

      REUNITED

      SONG WAS GONE FROM ME

      GOOD WAS THE FIGHT

      UNCHANGED

      ABSOLVO TE

      BENEDICTUS

      THE MESSAGE

      UNAVAILING

      YOU SHALL LIVE ON

      VEX NOT THIS GHOST

      THE MEMORY

      THE PASSING

      ENVOY

      INTRODUCTION

      'A Lover's Diary' has not the same modest history as 'Embers'. As far back as 1894 it was given to the public without any apology or excuse, but I have been apologising for it ever since, in one way—without avail. I wished that at least one-fifth of it had not been published; but my apology was never heard till now as I withdraw from this edition of A Lover's Diary some twenty-five sonnets representing fully one-fifth of the original edition. As it now stands the faint thread of narrative is more distinct, and redundancy of sentiment and words is modified to some extent at any rate. Such material story as there is, apart from the spiritual history embodied in the sonnets, seems more visible now, and the reader has a clearer revelation of a young, aspiring, candid mind shadowed by stern conventions of thought, dogma, and formula, but breaking loose from the environment which smothered it. The price it pays for the revelation is a hopeless love informed by temptation, but lifted away from ruinous elements by self-renunciation, to end with the inevitable parting, poignant and permanent, a task of the soul finished and the toll of the journey of understanding paid.

      The six sonnets in italics, beginning with 'The Bride', and ending with 'Annunciation', have nothing to do with the story further than to show two phases of the youth's mind before it was shaken by speculation, plunged into the sadness of doubt and apprehension, and before it had found the love which was to reveal it to itself, transform the character, and give new impulse and direction to personal force and individual sense. These were written when I was twenty and twenty-one years of age, and the sonnet sequence of 'A Lover's Diary' was begun when I was twenty-three. They were continued over seven years in varying quantity. Sometimes two or three were written in a week, and then no more would be written for several weeks or maybe months, and it is clearly to be seen from the text, from the change in style, and above all in the nature of the thought that between 'The Darkened Way', which ends one epoch, and 'Reunited', which begins another and the last epoch, were intervening years.

      The sonnet which begins the book and particularly that which ends the book have been very widely quoted, and 'Envoy' has been set to music by more than one celebrated musician. Whatever the monotony of a sonnet sequence (and it is a form which I should not have chosen if I had been older and wiser) there has been a continuous, if limited, demand for the little book. As Edmund Clarence Stedman said in a review, it was a book which had to be written. It was an impulse, a vision, and a

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