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Passeur by Robert W. Chambers
O friends, I’ve served ye food and bed;O friends, the mist is rising wet;Then bide a moment, O my dead,Where,…
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Pompe Funèbre by Robert W. Chambers
A wind-swept sky,The waste of moorland stretching to the west;The sea, low moaning in a strange unrest—A seagull’s cry. Washed…
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Romance by Robert W. Chambers
From Collier’s Magazine, 1908. A story of the American Civil War. Her instructions had been unusually rigid; she was to…
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The Demoiselle d’Ys by Robert W. Chambers
“Mais je croy que jeSuis descendu on puizTénébreux onquel disoitHeraclytus estre Vereté cachée.” “There be three things which are too…
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The Key to Grief by Robert W. Chambers
The moving finger writes, and, having writ,Moves on; nor all your piety nor witShall lure it back to cancel half…
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The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers
Little gray messenger,Robed like painted Death,Your robe is dust.Whom do you seekAmong lilies and closed budsAt dusk?Among lilies and closed…
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The Purple Emperor by Robert W. Chambers
THE PURPLE EMPEROR. Un souvenir heureux est peut-être, sur terre,Plus vrai que le bonheur. A. de Musset. I. The Purple…
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The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
The Repairer of Reputations is the leading story in Chambers’ collection, The King in Yellow (1895), and featured in our…
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The White Shadow by Robert W. Chambers
We are no other than a moving rowOf magic shadow-shapes, that come and goRound with this sun-illumined lantern, heldIn midnight…
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The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
“Let the red dawn surmiseWhat we shall do,When this blue starlight diesAnd all is through.” IThere are so many things…
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