Poems, Letters and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn. E. Eddison R.

      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

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      P. S. F. NAIRN IN 1907.

      [From, a photograph by Martin Jacolette.]

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      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

       MISCELLANEOUS 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

       Late Summer

       The Asra

       Anacreon’s Grave

       To my Absent Love

       Ultimus Cursus Vitae

       Appendix I

       Appendix II

       Footnotes

       Also by E. R. Eddison

       About the Publisher

       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. P. S. F. Nairn in 1907

      2. Five Years Old

      3. At the Foot of Wastwater, April 1906

      4. At Oxford, on the Cherwell

      5. Nairn’s Bungalow at Kota Bharu

      6. A Garden Party at the Residency

      7. Group on the Tennis Lawn