[ Pamphlet poem. ] The Mass of Christ, by the Late Francis Adams.

Author: 
Francis Adams [ Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-1893), Australian radical nationalist poet ]
Publication details: 
No publication details. Undated. [ Manchester? 1890s? ]
£200.00
SKU: 17817

14pp., 12mo. Disbound without wraps. In good condition, lightly aged. Poem of seventy five-line stanzas, arranged in four parts. The first part, two stanzas long, reads: 'Down in the woodlands, where the streamlet runs, | Close to the breezy river, by the dells | Of ferns and flowers that shun the summer suns | But gather round the lizard-haunted wells, | And listen to theh birds' sweet syllables - | Down in the woodlands, lying in the shade, | Among the rushes green that shook and gleamed, | I, - I whose songs were of my heart's blood made, - | Found weary rest from wretchedness, it seemed, | And fell asleep, and as I slept, I dreamed.' Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Oxford, whose entry agrees that the poem is undated, but gives the place as Manchester. Adams committed suicide in Margate.