Part 5 — INDEX

Achilles, modern, questioning Ulysses, 189

After-harvest, stillness of, 99

Aphrodite, 169

Apollo and Pan, 27

Apple blossom, 166-169

Ash-tree, solitary, dying, endiademed with woe, 53, 54;

how its leaves are shed, 124

August, 73-76;

Nature’s perfect poise, 73;

cool places in, 73;

the woods in, 75

Autumn, 176

Autumn bells, 174, 175

Autumn garden, an, 93-96, 174, 175;

farmhouse the royal flower of, 93;

a farmer’s love of his, 95

Ballad, a pathetic, described, 207, 208;

on the horse, 190, 237

Ballads and folk-songs, 206-208;

their words and melodies richest in immortal symbols, 206, 207

Barge, a black, 143-145;

its strange cargo, 145

Beech wood, a, 166

Birdnesting, 60

“Blue Bell,” the cosmic melody, 194

Bodleian Library, August in, 73

Books, a night with, 118

Boy, long thoughts of, 3

Brook, the, 88-92;

its insect, mineral, and plant life, 88-91;

its meandering course, 91, 92

Burns, Robert, prejudice against his poetry for epitaphs, 114

Calm, effect of, 2

Carbonek, castle of, 225-232;

now only a ruined crag, 226;

dreary outlook from, 226;

and Sir Launcelot’s vision, 229-232

Cassiopeia, the constellation, 194

Catullus, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Centaur, farmer on horse compared to, 66

Chalk hills, the, 171

Cherry blossom, 153, 154

Cherry of Zennor, Hunt’s story of, 198-201;

her dissatisfaction with home, 199;

her strange adventure, 199;

her curiosity and its consequences, 200, 201

Church bells, 176

Church, decorated, description of, 41-48;

service in, 41-43;

hymn-singing, 42;

modern worshippers and mythical gods, 43;

caged bells, 43

Church, village, description of, 176-178;

dull worshippers, 177;

a spiritless sermon, 178;

dream of an earthly heaven, 178-180

Clock, a silent, 118, 119

Clouds on the sea, 216-219;

their changeableness, 217, 218

Coach, London, 78

Company, good, walking in, 28-30

Country churchyard, a, 111-115;

village life in, 111;

life and death in, 111, 112;

epitaphs, 112-115;

eighteenth and nineteenth century epitaphs compared, 112

Country lover, the, 91

Crashaw’s poem, 62

Daffodils, the first, 183-191

Dante, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Dawn, beauties of nature at, 15, 16;

a July, 119

Deucalion stones, 223

Dis, chariot of, coming to Persephone, 148

“Dolly Gray,” sung in July fields, 206

Downs, the, 171-3

Dream, a strange, 39, 40

Earth Children, 126-137

Elves, lingering superstitions regarding, 66

Epitaph on infant’s tomb, 24

Epitaphs, 112-115;

history and progress seen in, 112;

sources of, 113, 114

“Fantastic summer’s heat,” 73

Farm, an old, 64-68;

relics of its long-dead generations, 67;

a deserted, 69, 70

Farmer, his life and habits, 66-68;

his house, 67;

his library, 67, 68;

relics of ancestors and thoughts of posterity, 68

Farmer’s daughter, the, 168, 169

Farmhouse, the royal flower of autumn, 93;

youth and antiquity mingled in the aspect of, 93, 94;

wayfarer’s first view of, 96;

a little red, 100;

life in, 101

Farmyard, in a, 52-55

Faunus, 21-25

Fell and moor, 184

Field, a green, 84-87;

antiquity of, 86;

November the notable month of, 87

Fields, antiquity of, 86

Fishing-boats in a tidal river, 214, 215

Footpaths, ancient, 115

“Four Elms, The,” typical village inn, 106, 110;

its old-time furniture, 107;

tramps and labourers in tap-room, 107-110

Fox-hunt, 141, 155-165

Gaberdine, a pedlar’s description of, 186

Galahad and Launcelot, 228

Gardens, summer flowers in, 170, 171;

autumn flowers, 174, 175

Garland day, 44-48;

song of, 48

Gods, ancient, and modern worshippers, 42, 43;

and heroes, 54

Golden Age, the, 13, 15, 16, 100-102;

and modern literature, 14

Goldfinches happy among thistles, 87

Good Friday and marbles, 60

Happiness, pursuit of, futile, 83

Happy Fields, 73

Harvest, a little before, 170-173

Harvest field, a moonlight love-race in, 201-204

Harvest moon, under a, 202-204

Haul of spring flowers, a March, 211-213

Hazlitt, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Heathland in the wind, 216, 217

Hedges, unruliness of, 84

Heroes and gods, 54

Hill, a tall beechen, 153

Holm-bank Hunting Song the, 194

“Hop-idgit,” the, or “shim,” 126

Horse, ballad on the, 190

House, white stone, 74

Hunt’s story of Cherry of Zennor, 198

Inn, the village, 205-208;

metamorphosed into a temple of all souls, 208

Inns, 63, 104, 106, 123, 183, 194;

a medley, 5;

roadside, 5, 61

January sunshine, 140-142

July night, and dawn, a, reminiscences of a, 118, 119

Junonian woman, 73, 76;

best representative of August, 73

Keats, 147, 148

Kilhwch, love of, song suggestive of, 208

King, Farmer, anecdote of his hay, 129

Labourer, aged, reminiscences of, 77-82;

a memory with a voice, 79;

feats of strength and endurance, 80, 81;

his coaching days, 81;

disciple of Culpeper, 82

Lamia and Lycius, 226

Landscapes on the walls by the roadside, 192

Lane, an ideal country, 56, 57

Launcelot, Sir, at the water of Morteise, 228;

his vision of the Sangreal, 228;

his adventures, 228-232;

at the castle of Carbonek, 229-232

Lethe, 214

Lethe’s stream, the flotsam on, 101

Literature, modern, 14

London, 7, 188;

midnight walk in, 7;

pedestrians encountered, 7, 8;

river, seen from bridge, 8;

names of streets an epitome of the world and time, 9;

can it be told? 188, 189;

The Soul of London, 188

Love-race in a moonlit harvest-field, 201-204

Lover’s game, children playing at, 59

Lycius, Corinthian, and Lamia, 226

Malory’s story of Sir Launcelot and the Sangreal, 228

Marbles and Good Friday, 60

March doubts, 37-40

March haul, a, 211, 213

Marlowe, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Marsh, the, 220-222

“Mary, come into the Field,” a peasant song, 34, 35, 237, 238

Maypole, the village, 70

Meadowland, 56-63;

pastoral inhabitants of, 58

Meadow-sweet, the, 75

Men prisons to themselves, 7

Meredith, Arabella, old man’s love-story concerning, 157-163;

her prowess in the hunting-field, 158;

her proposal of marriage, 159;

at the Fair, 161;

her lover’s daring swim, 162, 163;

her death, 163

Merediths, the, 157

Metamorphosis of the trees, 124

Mind, pool an image of the, 154

Moon, reign of, 153, 154

Moor and fell, 184

Moor, under the, 198-201

Moorhen, the home of the, 85

Morning, pride of the, 121-123

Morteise, water of, Sir Launcelot at the, 228

Mountainous country, scene in, 183

Mountains haunting the day, 184

Mowing, extraordinary day’s work at, 80, 81;

song, 11, 235

Music, the romantic cry of matter striving to become spirit, 206

Myratana and blind Tiriel, 226

Names, of streets, an epitome, 9;

of inns, rich in suggestion, 9

Nature, sorrowing, 5;

a philosopher of, 12;

beauties of, at dawn, 15, 16, 119

No man’s garden, 31-36

November, the notable month of the field, 87;

rain, 138, 139

Orchard, an, 167

Pace-egging Play, 179

Paganism, eternal, the multitude’s, 130, 131

Page, Margaret Helen, earth child, 127;

her better days, 127;

her Franciscan fondness for bird and beast, 127;

her Christian-pagan prayer and aspirations, 128-130

Page, Robert, earth child, 126;

his home, 127;

his varied avocations, 131, 132;

his belief of all things in print, 133;

his strange dream of the judgment day, 133, 134;

Bacchus his only god, 134;

his likeness to a lesser god in mythology, 135, 136

Palomides, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Pan and Apollo, 27

Pastoral inhabitants of meadowland, 58;

song, 58;

valley, 174

Pedlar, a, 186;

his picturesque dress, 186;

his birthplace, 186;

his simple life described, 187;

his questionings, 187-190

Pelleas, 228

Pellinore, 228

Persephone and the chariot of Dis, 148

Pleiades, the, and clouds, 218

Ploughman, the, 22-25;

his daily task, 23;

his recreation, 23, 24

Poetry, pastoral, 14

Poison, slow, dream-search for, 39, 40

Pond, a primeval, 52, 53;

the field, 85;

its aspect at dawn, 86

Pond-mirror, the, 192-197;

reflections on and in, 196, 197

Pool, beauties of, 73-76;

an image of the mind, reflections in, 154

“Poor Mary,” children’s lovers’ game, 59, 60

Poppies, 71

Popular Romances of the West of England, Hunt’s, 198

Pork, roast, procuring a dinner of, 79, 80

Princess, an impossible, 72

Rain, night walk in, 5, 6

River, a tidal, fishing-heats in, 214

Robin’s eggs, superstition regarding, 60

Ruy Blas, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Sail, one, at sea, 223, 224;

image of watcher’s hopes, 223

St. Martin’s Summer, 118-120

Sangreal, Sir Launcelot and the, 228, 229

Sea, clouds on the, 216, 219;

one sail at, 223, 224

Seifelmolouk, modern, and his memlooks, 43

“Shim,” or “hop-idgit” of six tynes, the Sussex, 126

Sign-post, duty of, 10

Siren, melody of, 220

Song, a country marching, 11, 235

Songs, old, fragments of, 29, 30, 34

Songs with music: Mowing song, 235;

Holm-bank Hunting Song, 236;

Poor old Horse, song of the, 237;

Mary, come into the Field 237, 238;

La Fille du Roi, 238

Soul of London, the, 188

Sovereign things, three: ship, chariot, plough, 21

Spring, birds and flowers, 37-40

Squire of olden days, a, 79

Streets, as seen from railway carriage, 3, 4;

a problem, 4;

at night, 8;

city, 9;

names of, an epitome, 9

Suburban street, a, 1

Summer garden, 170, 171

Summer-time, 170

Sunday, autumn, in country, 176-180

Sunshine, January, 140-142

Superstitions: robin’s eggs, 60;

elves, 66;

tadpoles, 82

Swift, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Symbols that surge and satisfy, 205

Tadpoles, rustic remedy for “decline,” 82

Tartarus, 131

Ten miles drive, 155

Tennyson’s poetry as source of epitaphs, 114

Times, old-fashioned, 77-82;

advantages and disadvantages, 78;

were they “good”? 78

Tiriel, blind, and Myratana, 226

Tombs, only records of early races, 111, 112;

life and death of, 112;

various objects in, 111;

bodies found in sitting posture, 112

Tower, a spectacular, 221

Town-leaving, 1-17

Tramp, a, conversations with, 31-35;

his wife, 32;

a murder, 32, 33;

on Bank-holiday, 35, 36;

at work, 36

Tramps of various nationalities, 107;

strange sleeping-place of, 115

Tree-worship, mild, suggestion of, 192

Trees, 6, 16;

ancient, 42;

metamorphosis of, 124

Valley, a quiet, 140

Village, the, 103-117;

its ancient cottages, 105;

its church and churchyard, 104, 111;

its inns and their frequenters, 104, 106-110;

flower-gardens, 105;

its eighteenth-century vicarage, 106;

longevity of inhabitants, 113;

its roads and footpaths, 115, 116;

its archæological and historic remains, 116

Villon, love of, song suggestive of, 208

Walnut-tree, the, 97-99

Watercress-man, 2;

conversation with, 11-15;

as philosopher and flower-seller, 12;

as landscape-painter, 12-13

Water-mill, deserted, 97

Wayfarer, the, 121

Winter morning, a, 146

Wood at sunrise, 44;

antiquity of, 46;

youth of, 47;

an old, beauties of, 49-51;

memories evoked by, 51;

a triangular, 139

Woodland walk, 26, 27, 44-51

World, still primitive, the, 143

Worshipper, modern and ancient gods, 42, 43

Yeoman of long ancestry, 156;

and Enid, his betrothed, 157, 160, 164

Youth, wood of, 47

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