THE CONTENTS
Reading edition
LATER POEMS
The Shepherdess Page 13
The Two Poets 14
The Lady Poverty 15
November Blue 16
A Dead Harvest 17
The Watershed 18
The Joyous Wanderer 19
The Rainy Summer 21
The Roaring Frost 22
West Wind in Winter 23
The Fold 25
“Why wilt thou Chide?” 26
Veneration of Images 27
“I am the Way” 28
Via, et Veritas, et Vita 29
Parentage 30
The Modern Mother 31
Unto us a Son is Given 32
Veni Creator 33
Two Boyhoods 34
To Sylvia 36
Saint Catherine of Siena 38
Chimes 40
A Poet’s Wife 41
Messina, 1908 42
8The Unknown God 43
A General Communion 45
The Fugitive 46
In Portugal, 1912 47
The Crucifixion 48
The Newer Vainglory 49
In Manchester Square 50
Maternity 51
The First Snow 52
The Courts 53
The Launch 54
To the Body 55
The Unexpected Peril 56
Christ in the Universe 58
Beyond Knowledge 60
At Night 61
EARLY POEMS
In Early Spring 65
To the Beloved 67
An Unmarked Festival 69
In Autumn 71
Parted 74
“Sœur Monique” 76
Regrets 80
The Visiting Sea 82
After a Parting 83
Builders of Ruins 84
9Sonnets
Thoughts in Separation 87
The Garden 88
Your Own Fair Youth 89
The Young Neophyte 90
Spring on the Alban Hills 91
In February 92
A Shattered Lute 93
Renouncement 94
To a Daisy 95
San Lorenzo’s Mother 96
The Lover Urges the Better Thrift 98
Cradle-Song at Twilight 99
Song of the Night at Daybreak 100
A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age 101
Advent Meditation 105
A Poet’s Fancies
The Love of Narcissus 106
To Any Poet 107
To one Poem in a Silent Time 109
The Moon to the Sun 110
The Spring to the Summer 111
The Day to the Night 112
A Poet of one Mood 113
A Song of Derivations 114
Singers to Come 115
Unlinked 117
10This volume includes the author’s very early verse, first published as “Preludes” and afterwards as “Poems” (1st edition, 1893; 10th edition, 1911), also the “Later Poems” (issued in 1901), together with others, since composed, here collected for the first time.
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