Transcribed from the 1911 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS

BY
LEWIS CARROLL

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ARTHUR B. FROST

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1911

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

First published in 1869.

Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.

Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
   Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on the friendly knee, intent to ask
         The tale one loves to tell.

Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
   Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
         Empty of all delight!

Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
   Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguilded.
Ah, happy he who owns the tenderest joy,
         The heart-love of a child!

Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
   Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days,
Albeit bright memories of the sunlit shore
         Yet haunt my dreaming gaze.