The Poems of Trumbull Stickney Author:Trumbull Stickney General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... more » It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II FRAGMENTS -OF A DRAMA ON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN [this splendid fragment was begun in the first half of the year 1901. Stickney was then unable, however, to give it the tune and attention required for its completion, and though he subsequently returned to it with unabated interest, it was, unhappily, never finished. Stickney had planned to treat the life of Julian in two dramas, a shorter one, of which the following pages are a part, dealing with the period before his election to the throne, and one on a much larger scale, beginning with his coronation at Paris and ending with his death at Maronga. Of this drama nothing remains but an extremely brief synopsis.] Dramatis Persoxb Constance: The King Eusebia: The Queen Helena: His Sister Julian: His Cousin Eusebius: Lord Chamberlain ARBETIO REMIGIUS MERCURIUS APODEMIUS Scene: Milan, Como, Milan. ACT I The Privy Council hall in the Palace at Milan EUSEBIUS REMIGIUS ARBETIO MERCURIUS Eusebius. Have you the news of't ? Abbetio. Rumours, nothing more. Bus. And yet by this the Fury should be dead. They had him. Mercurius. Oh, had him! perhaps! but well we know, While yet th' imperial prisoner, hither bound, At Adrianople tarried, now and again A soldier, privy officer, detached From garrisons then wintered thereabouts, Down the palatial corridors or plain At the high gate with pleas of business still Admit...« less