Who is Ernest Christopher Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900) was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer who is often associated with the Decadent movement.Biography
Ernest Dowson was born in Lee, then in Kent, in 1867. His great-uncle was Alfred Domett, a Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dowson attended The Queen's College, Oxford, but left in March 1888 without obtaining a degree.In November 1888 Dowson started work at Dowson & Son, his father's dry-docking business in Limehouse, East London. He led an active social life, carousing with medical students and law pupils, visiting music halls, and taking the performers to dinner.
Dowson was a member of the Rhymers' Club, and a contributor to literary magazines such as The Yellow Book and The Savo...
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Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems
- To William Theodore Peters On His Renaissance Cloak
The cherry-coloured velvet of your cloak
Time hath not soiled: its fair embroideries
Gleam as when centuries ago they spoke
To what bright gallant of Her Daintiness, ... - O Mors! Quam Amara Est Memoria Tua Homini Pacem Habenti In Substantiis Suis
Exceeding sorrow
Consumeth my sad heart!
Because to-morrow
We must depart, ... - After Paul Verlaine
I
Il pleut doucement sur la ville.--RIMBAUD
... - Gray Nights
A while we wandered (thus it is I dream!)
Through a long, sandy track of No Man's Land,
Where only poppies grew among the sand,
The which we, plucking, cast with scant esteem, ... - A Song
All that a man may pray,
Have I not prayed to thee?
What were praise left to say,
Has not been said by me ...
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Peterdamianent1: exile - ernest christopher dowson by the sad waters of separation where we have wandered by divers ways, i have but the shadow and imitation of the old memorial days. in music i have no consolation, no roses are pale enough for me; the sound...Boltonvictorian: ernest christopher dowson (1867 – 1900) was an english poet, novelist, and short-story writer who is often associated with the decadent movement. (wiki) richard burton reads ernest dowson's poem 'non sum qualis eram bonae sub...
Aaj_pakistan: if we must part, then let it be like this. not heart on heart, nor with the useless anguish of a kiss; but touch mine hand and say: "until to-morrow or some other day, if we must part". ernest christopher dowson
Ken97109552: "last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine there fell thy shadow, cynara! thy breath was shed upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; and i was desolate and sick of an old passion . . ." - "cynara" by ernest christopher dowson
Faust89823700: and all her flower-like beauty, as a glass, mirrors out hope and love ernest christopher dowson
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