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    The Junk-Man & Other Poems
    The Junk-Man & Other Poems
    The Junk-Man & Other Poems
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    The Junk-Man & Other Poems

    By Richard le Gallienne

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    Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866.

    After leaving school he added the ‘Le’ to his name. His first job was in an accountant's office, but this was quickly abandoned to pursue his first love as a professional writer. His first work, My Ladies’ Sonnets, was published in 1887.

    In 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett the manager, actor, and playwright. Barrett enjoyed immense success with the staging of melodramas, which would later reach a peak with the historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895).

    Le Gallienne joined the staff of The Star newspaper in 1891, and also wrote for various other papers under the pseudonym ‘Logroller’. He contributed to the short-lived but influential quarterly periodical The Yellow Book, published between 1894 and 1897.

    His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894 leaving their daughter, Hesper, in his care.

    In 1897 he married the Danish journalist Julie Norregard. However, the marriage would not be a success. She left him in 1903 and took their daughter Eva to live in Paris. They were eventually divorced in June 1911.

    Le Gallienne now moved to the United States and became resident there.

    On 27th October 1911, he married Mrs. Irma Perry, whose marriage to her first cousin, the painter and sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, had been dissolved in 1904. Le Gallienne and Irma had known each other for many years and had written an article together a few years earlier in 1906.

    Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Paris from the late 1920s, where Irma’s daughter Gwen was by then an established figure in the expatriate bohème. Le Gallienne also added a regular newspaper column to the frequent publication of his poems, essays and other articles.

    By 1930 Le Gallienne’s book publishing career had virtually ceased. During the latter years of that decade Le Gallienne lived in Menton on the French Riviera and, during the war years, in nearby Monaco. His house was commandeered by German troops and his handsome library was nearly sent back to Germany as bounty. Le Gallienne managed a successful appeal to a German officer in Monaco which allowed him to return to Menton to collect his books.

    To his credit Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities, and financially was often in dire need. On one occasion he collapsed in the street due to hunger.

    Richard Thomas Gallienne died on 15th September 1947. He is buried in Menton in a grave whose lease is, at present, due to expire in 2023.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateJan 2, 2019
    ISBN9781787803732
    The Junk-Man & Other Poems

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      The Junk-Man & Other Poems - Richard le Gallienne

      The Junk-Man & Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne

      Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866.

      After leaving school he added the ‘Le’ to his name. His first job was in an accountant's office, but this was quickly abandoned to pursue his first love as a professional writer. His first work, My Ladies’ Sonnets, was published in 1887.

      In 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett the manager, actor, and playwright. Barrett enjoyed immense success with the staging of melodramas, which would later reach a peak with the historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895).

      Le Gallienne joined the staff of The Star newspaper in 1891, and also wrote for various other papers under the pseudonym ‘Logroller’. He contributed to the short-lived but influential quarterly periodical The Yellow Book, published between 1894 and 1897.

      His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894 leaving their daughter, Hesper, in his care.

      In 1897 he married the Danish journalist Julie Norregard. However, the marriage would not be a success. She left him in 1903 and took their daughter Eva to live in Paris. They were eventually divorced in June 1911.

      Le Gallienne now moved to the United States and became resident there.

      On 27th October 1911, he married Mrs. Irma Perry, whose marriage to her first cousin, the painter and sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, had been dissolved in 1904. Le Gallienne and Irma had known each other for many years and had written an article together a few years earlier in 1906.

      Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Paris from the late 1920s, where Irma’s daughter Gwen was by then an established figure in the expatriate bohème.  Le Gallienne also added a regular newspaper column to the frequent publication of his poems, essays and other articles.

      By 1930 Le Gallienne’s book publishing career had virtually ceased. During the latter years of that decade Le Gallienne lived in Menton on the French Riviera and, during the war years, in nearby Monaco. His house was commandeered by German troops and his handsome library was nearly sent back to Germany as bounty. Le Gallienne managed a successful appeal to a German officer in Monaco which allowed him to return to Menton to collect his books.

      To his credit Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities, and financially was often in dire need.  On one occasion he collapsed in the street due to hunger.

      Richard Thomas Gallienne died on 15th September 1947.  He is buried in Menton in a grave whose lease is, at present, due to expire in 2023.

      Index of Contents

      I

      Ballade of the Junk-Man

      Ballade of a Dead Lady

      Ballade of the Sorrow of Young Hearts

      Ballade of the Deaths of Kings

      Ballade of the Unchanging Beauty

      Ballade of the Beloved and the Vain Ones That Perish

      Ballade of Annette

      Ballade of the Breaking of Hearts

      Ballade of Queen's Lace

      Ballade of His Lady's Immortality

      Ballade of the Singing Stream

      Ballade of the Noisiness of the Times

      Ballade of the Poet and the Moon

      Ballade of Apollo's Garden

      A Ballade-Catalogue of Lovely Things

      Ballade of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

      A Bookman's Ballade of The Big Three

      Ballade of Pessimists

      Ballade of Life's Dream

      Ballade of Pot-Pourri

      Ballade of Amaryllis in the Shade

      A New Ballade of Last Year's Snow

      Ballade of the Road Unknown

      Ballade of Old Laughter

      Ballade to His Dead Lady, Bidding Her Sleep On

      Ballade of the Things that Remain

      II

      On Re-Reading Le Morte d' Arthur

      III

      A Bahaman Love-Song 

      The Eternal Friends 

      Love's Mirror 

      Anniversary

      Aubade

      To a Celestial House-Wife 

      Song for a Gown

      When All the Dreams Are Over

      IV

      The Palaces of the Rose

      Sweet Lovers

      The Wood Nymph 

      Immortality

      The Everlasting Doors

      Desiderium

      Dream Tryst

      Silencieux 

      Till We Forget 

      When I Go Walking in the Woods 

      Violin Music

      Love and the World's End

      Time

      The Rose Sing I

      V

      The Ballad of Mary 

      From Generation to Generation 

      The Idol

      To Narcissa—Dressing for the Theatre

      Little Lady Echo

      To a Young Girl 

      To a Boy, on the Death of His Sweetheart 

      If I Were Rich, Little Girl

      Le Roi Faineant

      Answer to an Invitation 

      Love's Philosophy

      The Shadow of Knowledge 

      At Midsummer

      The Wind's Way

      VI

      The Eternal Play 

      To the Skunk Cabbage 

      The Snowdrop

      Dogwood

      Lady April 

      Wood Flower 

      The Little Rills

      Sweetheart April

      A Summer Day 

      To a Mountain Brook

      The Secret of the Woods 

      The Last Song of the Nightingale to the Rose 

      September

      Autumn 

      La Cigale 

      The Garden God 

      Pan

      Sea-Sorcery 

      Elemental Comrades 

      Sailing

      Morning at Sea 

      Coral Isles and Tropic Seas 

      Homeward Bound

      Beatus Vir

      A Walking Song 

      Recantation 

      The Cloister 

      VII

      Ballade Against the Enemies of France

      After the War

      Charles Frohman: May 25, 1915

      A Merry Ballad of Christmas 

      The Human Sacrifice 

      Our Lady of Pity 

      Elixir Vitæ

      When I Am Very Old

      The World Is Still a Song to Me

      When I Am Gone 

      Two Lovers

      On Growing Old

      VIII

      The Poet

      Old Safety

      On Professors

      The Real Books 

      Robert Browning 

      A Plea for the Old Music 

      On the Passing of Greek and Latin

      A Song of Dying Words

      The Last Refuge

      Leave Us the Stars 

      Beauty

      The Eternal Way 

      Richard Le Gaillienne – A Concise Bibliography

      BALLADE OF THE JUNK-MAN

      Upon the summer afternoon,

      Wafted across the orchard trees,

      There comes a ghostly travelling tune,

      Blent with the sleepy drone of bees;

      Elfin, aerial it is.

      Like shaken bells of silver rain.

      And creepy as old melodies—

      The junk-man's coming down the lane.

      The ancient hat, the worn-out shoon,

      The broken-hearted fineries.

      The yellowed news, dead as the moon.

      The rust, the rubbish, and the lees.

      The tarnished trophy, gallantries

      Gone to the moth—this clouded cane!

      This buckle brave!—for such as these

      The junk-man's coming down the lane.

      O thou that wooest deep in June,

      Hearken! and thou so fain to seize

      Joy, and to hoard it, late and soon,

      Thou lord of many locks and keys,

      Thick lies the dust—though no man sees—

      Upon thy dream; Time sees it plain

      On the bright wings, long ere it flies:

      The junk-man's coming down the lane.

      ENVOI

      Prince, 'tis a thought our veins to freeze:

      Time doth all hallowed things profane,

      And toss about the centuries—

      The junk-man's coming down the lane.

      BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY

      All old fair things are in their places,

      I count them over, and miss but one;

      The April flowers are running races,

      The green world stretches its arms to the sun;

      The nuptial dance of the days is begun—

      The same young stars in the same old skies;

      And all that was lost again is won—

      But where have they hidden those great eyes?

      All have come back—dogwood and daisies—

      All things ripple and riot and run;

      Swallow and swallow in aery mazes,

      A fairy frolic of fire and fun;

      The same old enchanted web is spun.

      With diamond dews, for the same old flies;

      Yet all is new, spite of Solomon—

      But where have they hidden those great eyes?

      Lovely as love are the new-born faces—

      God knows they are fair to look upon;

      And my heart goes out to the young embraces,

      To the flight of the young to the young;

      But, Time, what is it that thou hast done?

      For my heart 'mid all

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