Escape and fantasy : Poems by G. Rostrevor Hamilton
Escape and fantasy by G. Rostrevor Hamilton is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century. The book turns from the routines of modern life toward imagination and inward freedom, blending nature, myth, love, faith, and meditations on time and change into a musical, reflective whole. The poems shuttle between city streets and open fields, charting how close attention and song release the spirit. A clerkly day gives way
to twilight fancy in The Change; in The Voice an ardent love-song swells into a cosmic ecstasy; and Orpheus stills the world’s unruly will with music. Brief nature pieces dwell on rivers, rain, birds, and quiet ponds to show perception remaking reality, while Lotus Eaters savors pure presentness. Myth and scripture widen the frame: Tidal, king of nations weighs power against mercy, and The Sea-Maid laments the curse of changeless immortality. Other poems seek an inner cell of prayer amid the market, praise austere endurance in the hills, and ponder Eternity as noble, gathered time. The sequence closes on a moonlit, Haunted Street where the speaker, beset by memories and passions, flees back to self—an arc that tests how imagination, love, and faith can redeem the ordinary before yielding again to silence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hamilton, G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor), 1888-1967 |
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| LoC No. | 19004615 |
| Title | Escape and fantasy : Poems |
| Original Publication | New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. |
| Credits | Tim Miller, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77817 |
| Release Date | Jan 30, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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