Three Sunsets and Other Poems

THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS

THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS
BY LEWIS CARROLL
WITH TWELVE FAIRY-FANCIES
BY E. GERTRUDE THOMSON
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LONDON MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1898
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PREFACE.
Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems , which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. “The Path of Roses” was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. “Only a Woman’s Hair” was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift , viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. “After Three Days” was written after seeing Holman Hunt’s picture, The Finding of Christ in the Temple .