White Stains

 

 

Many copies of this book are believed to have been destroyed by H.M. customs.

 

Published Date:

circa May 1898

Publisher:

Leonard Smithers (Privately Printed)

Printer:

Binger Brothers

Published At:

Amsterdam, Denmark

Pages:

iv + 132

Price:

Unknown

Edition:

100 copies printed on Van Gelder laid paper. The pages are opened, but uncut.

Bound in black cloth with a cover lettered in white ‘WHITE STAINS’. The spine has an ankh design in white.

Some copies are numbered.

 

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Contents

- Dédicace

- Prefatory: Sonnet to the Virgin Mary

- A Fragment

- The Rainbow

- With a Copy of "Poems and Ballads"

- Ad Lydiam, Ut Secum a Marito Fugeret

- Contra Conjugium T. B. B.

- A Ballad of Choosing

- A Jealous Lover

- Ballade de la Jolie Marion

- At Stockholm

- Mathilde

- Yet Time to Turn

- All Night

- Ode to Venus Callipyge

- Volupté

- Rondels

- Ad Lucium

- A Paean in the Springtide

- To J. L. D.

- A Ballad of Passive Paederasty

- To A.D.

- At Kiel

- Suggested additional Stanzas for "A Ballad of Burdens"

- "Go into the Highways and Hedges, and complete them to come in"

- The Blood-Lotus

- To my First-born

- Cahnt au Saint-Esprit

- Victory

- Sleeping in Carthage

- With Dog and Dame

- Έρμαφροδίτουναρ

- "Erebus"

- La Juive

- Necrophilia

- 'Αβυσμος

 

 

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