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0. START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, LATE
LYRICS AND EARLIER ***
Transcribed by David Price, email [email protected]
from the
1922 Macmillan and Co. edition.
LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES
Contents:
Apology
Weathers
The maid of Keinton Mandeville
Summer
Schemes
Epeisodia
Faintheart in a Railway Train
At Moonrise
and Onwards
The Garden Seat
Barthelemon at Vauxhall
"I
sometimes think"
Jezreel
A Jog-trot Pair
"The Curtains now are
Drawn"
"According to the Mighty Working"
"I was not he"
The
West-of-Wessex Girl
Welcome Home
Going and Staying
Read
by Moonlight
At a house in Hampstead
A Woman's Fancy
Her
Song
A Wet August
The Dissemblers
To a Lady Playing and
Singing in the Morning
"A man was drawing near to me"
The
Strange House
"As 'twere to-night"
The Contretemps
A
Gentleman's Epitaph on Himself and a Lady
The Old Gown
A night
in November
A Duettist to her Pianoforte
"Where three roads
joined"
"And there was a great calm"
Haunting Fingers
The
Woman I Met
"If it's ever spring again"
The Two Houses
On
Stinsford Hill at Midnight
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House

The Selfsame Song
The Wanderer
A Wife Comes Back
A Young
Man's Exhortation
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
A Bygone
Occasion
Two Serenades
The Wedding Morning
End of the Year
1912
The Chimes Play "Life's a bumper!"
"I worked no wile to
meet you"
At the Railway Station, Upway
Side by Side
Dream of
the City Shopwoman
A Maiden's Pledge
The Child and the Sage

Mismet
An Autumn Rain-scene
Meditations on a Holiday
An
Experience
The Beauty
The Collector Cleans his Picture
The
Wood Fire
Saying Good-bye
On the tune called The
Old-hundred-and-fourth
The Opportunity
Evelyn G. Of

Christminster
The Rift
Voices from things growing in a Churchyard

On the Way
"She did not turn"
Growth in May
The Children
and Sir Nameless
At the Royal Academy
Her Temple
A
Two-years' Idyll
By Henstridge Cross at the year's end
Penance
"I
look in her face"
After the War
"If you had known"
The
Chapel-organist
Fetching Her
"Could I but will"
She revisits
alone the church of her marriage
At the Entering of the New Year

They would not come
After a romantic day
The Two Wives
"I
knew a lady"
A house with a History
A Procession of Dead Days

He Follows Himself
The Singing Woman
Without, not within her

"O I won't lead a homely life"
In the small hours
The little old
table
Vagg Hollow
The dream is--which?
The Country Wedding

First or Last
Lonely Days
"What did it mean?"
At the
dinner-table
The marble tablet
The Master and the Leaves
Last
words to a dumb friend
A drizzling Easter morning
On one who
lived and died where he was born
The Second Night
She who saw
not
The old workman
The sailor's mother
Outside the casement

The passer-by
"I was the midmost"
A sound in the night
On a
discovered curl of hair
An old likeness
Her Apotheosis
"Sacred to
the memory"
To a well-named dwelling
The Whipper-in
A
military appointment
The milestone by the rabbit-burrow
The
Lament of the Looking-glass
Cross-currents
The old neighbour and
the new
The chosen
The inscription
The marble-streeted town
A
woman driving
A woman's trust
Best times
The casual
acquaintance
Intra Sepulchrum
The whitewashed wall
Just the
same
The last time
The seven times
The sun's last look on the
country girl
In a London flat
Drawing details in an old church

Rake-hell muses
The Colour
Murmurs in the gloom
Epitaph
An
ancient to ancients
After reading psalms xxxix., xl.
Surview
APOLOGY
About half the verses that follow were written quite lately. The rest are
older, having been held over in MS. when past volumes were published,

on considering that these would contain a sufficient number of pages to
offer readers at one time, more especially during the distractions of the
war. The unusually far back poems to be found here are, however, but
some that were overlooked in gathering previous collections. A
freshness in them, now unattainable, seemed to make up for their
inexperience and to justify their inclusion. A few are dated; the dates of
others are not discoverable.
The launching of a volume of this kind in neo-Georgian days by one
who began writing in mid-Victorian, and has published nothing to
speak of for some years, may seem to call for a few words of excuse or
explanation. Whether or no, readers may feel assured that a new book