CONTENTS

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Never shall life clear utterance show 3

If all the needs in all the hearts 5

Life wrought me at the forge of death 6

Long through the night the new-born lamb 7

If you must do the thing you fear 9

Oh, safely in my dreams you laid 11

The blood of Abel in me cries 12

With me early, with me late 13

Thou breast of all bright things, thou Earth 14

Dear garden face, with eyes of dawn 16

With arms that oared at easy length 17

Amid this grave-strewn, flowerless place 19

Dear love, when with a twofold mind 20

What know ye of the wounds of Christ 21

Grant that I have no other claim 22

Now that I know you, dear, by heart 23

You hear a blind man preach the light 24

Now day by day my love is set 25

Oh, Love, leave other hearts to fail 26

When we are parting face from face 27

Fair eyes, that never did offend 28

You, the dear trouble of my days 30

Two masks my fate reserves for me 31

II

Of old betwixt the gods and earth 35

Two breasts to her unhappy brood 36

The land’s arms loose me, and I taste 38

What farewell can I wish you now 39

Ah, no! beloved, you part not hence 40

Round this dark ship that bears me on 41

Dark to its nest the light has gone 42

The death-white horses crest and turn 43

Oh, like-unlike, a difference strange 44

Here where the Rome of nations stands 45

Where, perfected in flesh and bone 47

Great Mother, dwelling in the shade 49

In sackcloth shrouds they rise from rest 51

To the Tree of Life on Judgment Day 52

Against my flesh Love hangs to die 53

How this sad place deserted grown 54

This is the grave which year by year 56

From these thy servants who behold 57

“Sing once for joy!” spake Love, and bowed 59

Across these barren clods of clay 60

I, too, hear how the lover sings 62

Only two hands has Love to lend 63

Living, I feel the feet that tread 64

High overhead the clock that tolls 65

Life flutters from the wooded brow 66

III

O ghostly dawn, that whitenest now 71

Pale stranger, with the uplifted face 72

Now round you spreads and flows a rest 73

Why dream for you, dear vanished friend 74

The Soul bereaved, the Flesh defiled 75

Out of the heart of night a hand 76

So much strong weakness holds me bound 77

Send forth Thy winds, O God, to blow 78

Ghosts of sweet wants, ye touch and leave 79

Whenever blows a passing gust 80

Is living still my debt to thee 81

O Lord of Love, Who holdest light 82

Here name and date are worn away 83

Me did self-love or love most move 84

Though thou art changed, thou bearest whole 85

Oh! strange, ’mid severance of love 86

Let not the love you learned on earth 87

Where my word fails thy word amends 88

Out of the earth that holds you bound 89

Spring comes with silent rush of leaf 91

The Earth her troubled seasons brings 93

As by the motion of her arc 94