Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Venture, 1903 <!-- Edit --> <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2021</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>VV1_po37</idno> <!-- Edit --> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Laurence Housman and Somerset Maugham</editor> <author>John Gray</author> <!-- Edit --> <title>A Phial John Baillie London, E.C. 1903 Gray, John. "A Phial." The Venture: an Annual of Art and Literature, vol. 1, 1903, pp. 233-234. Venture Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2021. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2021, https://1890s.ca/vv1-gray-phial

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 1903 English English literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals Great Britain -- Periodicals Poetry Possible Genres (multiple): "Fiction," "Nonfiction," "Poetry," "Paratext" (TOC, prospecti, advertisements, frontmatter, titlepage), "Review" (older reviews), "Criticism" (including critical introductions), "Visual Art" (images, bio images), Historiography (bios),"Bibliography" (intros, crit, bios, anything with a bibliography attached), "Drama," "Ephemera," "Translation," "Religion," "Travel Writing," "Music, Other,") Periodical Possible Types (singular): "Periodical" (texts/most stuff), "Interactive Resource" (current writing, biographies, not old reviews), "Still Image" (images, visual art), "Physical Object" (posters, prospecti) Book History Literature Possible Disciplines (multiple): "Book History (include for all periodical items)," "Literature," "Art History (use for art, also use for reviews)," "History (don't use in a general sense)," "Theatre Studies," "Musicology," "Philosophy," "Anthropology," "Science"
A PHIAL.
This precious bubble of the antique world, As light as lifted foam, as frail as breath, Endured when empires died a desperate death, When heaven on earth, when tower on tower was hurled. Hues of a beetle's temporary wing Have grown on this in centuries of slime; Dials have told a rosary of time For every nuance of this feeble thing. Were it devised at first for costly balm, The distillation of a summer's fee, To sweeten some "Ah sweet, I dote on thee," And over all there lies a common calm.  .  .  . No more, no more the heavy branches drip Another fragrance to the tangled moss, Translucent insects flamed and hummed across; The sleep they soothed is grown eternal sleep. 233 It mocks indeed, it is not wholly dumb, The insect's fiery wing; and, listening well Against the margin of this tell-tale shell, There wakes the memory of a distant hum. Drowse on, drowse on until I come again; Or sleep, or sleep for ever, evermore; We are like men who halt upon a shore, Whose thoughts go forward and whose feet remain.

    JOHN GRAY.

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