Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other VersesFront matterReading editionChapter navigation152 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterLATE LYRICS AND EARLIERAPOLOGYWEATHERSTHE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)SUMMER SCHEMESEPEISODIAFAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAINAT MOONRISE AND ONWARDSTHE GARDEN SEATBARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL“I SOMETIMES THINK” (FOR F. E. H.)JEZREEL ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918A JOG-TROT PAIR“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN” (SONG)“I WAS NOT HE” (SONG)THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRLWELCOME HOMEGOING AND STAYINGREAD BY MOONLIGHTAT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD SOMETIME THE DWELLING OF JOHN KEATSA WOMAN’S FANCYHER SONGA WET AUGUSTTHE DISSEMBLERSTO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING“A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME”THE STRANGE HOUSE (MAX GATE, A.D. 2000)“AS ’TWERE TO-NIGHT” (SONG)THE CONTRETEMPSA GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHERTHE OLD GOWN (SONG)A NIGHT IN NOVEMBERA DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE SONG OF SILENCE (E. L. H.—H. C. H.)“WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED”“AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM” (ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)HAUNTING FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSTHE WOMAN I MET“IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN” (SONG)THE TWO HOUSESON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHTTHE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSETHE SELFSAME SONGTHE WANDERERA WIFE COMES BACKA YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATIONAT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACKA BYGONE OCCASION (SONG)TWO SERENADESTHE WEDDING MORNINGEND OF THE YEAR 1912THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE’S A BUMPER!”“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU” (SONG)AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAYSIDE BY SIDEDREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMANA MAIDEN’S PLEDGE (SONG)THE CHILD AND THE SAGEMISMETAN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENEMEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME TO AN OLD FOLK-JINGLE)AN EXPERIENCETHE BEAUTYTHE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURETHE WOOD FIRE (A FRAGMENT)SAYING GOOD-BYE (SONG)ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTHTHE OPPORTUNITY (FOR H. P.)EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTERTHE RIFT (Song: Minor Mode)VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARDON THE WAY“SHE DID NOT TURN”GROWTH IN MAYTHE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESSAT THE ROYAL ACADEMYHER TEMPLEA TWO-YEARS’ IDYLLPENANCE“I LOOK IN HER FACE” (Song: Minor)AFTER THE WAR“IF YOU HAD KNOWN”THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST (A.D. 185–)FETCHING HER“COULD I BUT WILL” (Song: Verses 1, 3, key major; verse 2, key minor)SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGEAT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEARTHEY WOULD NOT COMEAFTER A ROMANTIC DAYTHE TWO WIVES (SMOKER’S CLUB-STORY)“I KNEW A LADY” (CLUB SONG)A HOUSE WITH A HISTORYA PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYSHE FOLLOWS HIMSELFTHE SINGING WOMANWITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER“O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE” (To an old air)IN THE SMALL HOURSTHE LITTLE OLD TABLEVAGG HOLLOWTHE DREAM IS—WHICH?THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER’S STORY)FIRST OR LAST (SONG)LONELY DAYS“WHAT DID IT MEAN?”AT THE DINNER-TABLETHE MARBLE TABLETTHE MASTER AND THE LEAVESLAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIENDA DRIZZLING EASTER MORNINGON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORNTHE SECOND NIGHT (BALLAD)SHE WHO SAW NOTTHE OLD WORKMANTHE SAILOR’S MOTHEROUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)“I WAS THE MIDMOST”A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17–)ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIRAN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)HER APOTHEOSIS “Secretum meum mihi” (FADED WOMAN’S SONG)“SACRED TO THE MEMORY” (MARY H.)TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLINGTHE WHIPPER-INA MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL’HAM HILL)THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASSCROSS-CURRENTSTHE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEWTHE CHOSENTHE INSCRIPTION (A TALE)THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWNA WOMAN DRIVINGA WOMAN’S TRUSTBEST TIMESTHE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCEINTRA SEPULCHRUMTHE WHITEWASHED WALLJUST THE SAMETHE LAST TIMETHE SEVEN TIMESTHE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL (M. H.)IN A LONDON FLATDRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCHRAKE-HELL MUSESTHE COLOURMURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)EPITAPHAN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTSAFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.SURVIEW “Cogitavi vias meas”Beginning of this editionNext chapter →LATE LYRICS AND EARLIERAll chapters and sections (152)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsLATE LYRICS AND EARLIERAPOLOGYWEATHERSTHE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)SUMMER SCHEMESEPEISODIAFAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAINAT MOONRISE AND ONWARDSTHE GARDEN SEATBARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL“I SOMETIMES THINK” (FOR F. E. H.)JEZREEL ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918A JOG-TROT PAIR“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN” (SONG)“I WAS NOT HE” (SONG)THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRLWELCOME HOMEGOING AND STAYINGREAD BY MOONLIGHTAT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD SOMETIME THE DWELLING OF JOHN KEATSA WOMAN’S FANCYHER SONGA WET AUGUSTTHE DISSEMBLERSTO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING“A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME”THE STRANGE HOUSE (MAX GATE, A.D. 2000)“AS ’TWERE TO-NIGHT” (SONG)THE CONTRETEMPSA GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHERTHE OLD GOWN (SONG)A NIGHT IN NOVEMBERA DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE SONG OF SILENCE (E. L. H.—H. C. H.)“WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED”“AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM” (ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)HAUNTING FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSTHE WOMAN I MET“IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN” (SONG)THE TWO HOUSESON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHTTHE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSETHE SELFSAME SONGTHE WANDERERA WIFE COMES BACKA YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATIONAT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACKA BYGONE OCCASION (SONG)TWO SERENADESTHE WEDDING MORNINGEND OF THE YEAR 1912THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE’S A BUMPER!”“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU” (SONG)AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAYSIDE BY SIDEDREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMANA MAIDEN’S PLEDGE (SONG)THE CHILD AND THE SAGEMISMETAN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENEMEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME TO AN OLD FOLK-JINGLE)AN EXPERIENCETHE BEAUTYTHE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURETHE WOOD FIRE (A FRAGMENT)SAYING GOOD-BYE (SONG)ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTHTHE OPPORTUNITY (FOR H. P.)EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTERTHE RIFT (Song: Minor Mode)VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARDON THE WAY“SHE DID NOT TURN”GROWTH IN MAYTHE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESSAT THE ROYAL ACADEMYHER TEMPLEA TWO-YEARS’ IDYLLPENANCE“I LOOK IN HER FACE” (Song: Minor)AFTER THE WAR“IF YOU HAD KNOWN”THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST (A.D. 185–)FETCHING HER“COULD I BUT WILL” (Song: Verses 1, 3, key major; verse 2, key minor)SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGEAT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEARTHEY WOULD NOT COMEAFTER A ROMANTIC DAYTHE TWO WIVES (SMOKER’S CLUB-STORY)“I KNEW A LADY” (CLUB SONG)A HOUSE WITH A HISTORYA PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYSHE FOLLOWS HIMSELFTHE SINGING WOMANWITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER“O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE” (To an old air)IN THE SMALL HOURSTHE LITTLE OLD TABLEVAGG HOLLOWTHE DREAM IS—WHICH?THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER’S STORY)FIRST OR LAST (SONG)LONELY DAYS“WHAT DID IT MEAN?”AT THE DINNER-TABLETHE MARBLE TABLETTHE MASTER AND THE LEAVESLAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIENDA DRIZZLING EASTER MORNINGON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORNTHE SECOND NIGHT (BALLAD)SHE WHO SAW NOTTHE OLD WORKMANTHE SAILOR’S MOTHEROUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)“I WAS THE MIDMOST”A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17–)ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIRAN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)HER APOTHEOSIS “Secretum meum mihi” (FADED WOMAN’S SONG)“SACRED TO THE MEMORY” (MARY H.)TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLINGTHE WHIPPER-INA MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL’HAM HILL)THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASSCROSS-CURRENTSTHE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEWTHE CHOSENTHE INSCRIPTION (A TALE)THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWNA WOMAN DRIVINGA WOMAN’S TRUSTBEST TIMESTHE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCEINTRA SEPULCHRUMTHE WHITEWASHED WALLJUST THE SAMETHE LAST TIMETHE SEVEN TIMESTHE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL (M. H.)IN A LONDON FLATDRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCHRAKE-HELL MUSESTHE COLOURMURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)EPITAPHAN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTSAFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.SURVIEW “Cogitavi vias meas”Transcribed from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org◇Book coverLATE LYRICS AND EARLIER →
