Poem by Louise Imogen Guiney

A Talisman

TAKE Temperance to thy breast,
While yet is the hour of choosing,
As arbitress exquisite
Of all that shall thee betide;
For better than fortune’s best
Is mastery in the using,
And sweeter than anything sweet
The art to lay it aside!

1. In a Ruin, after a Thunder-Storm
2. A Salutation
3. In a London Street
4. York Stairs
5. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford

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