244
THE INTERPRETERS 245
THE RECALL 248
BY TWILIGHT 249
A BABY'S EPITAPH 250
ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRY TAYLOR 251
IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM INCHBOLD 252
NEW YEAR'S DAY 257
TO SIR RICHARD F. BURTON 258
NELL GWYN 259
CALIBAN ON ARIEL 260
THE WEARY WEDDING 261
THE WINDS 270
A LYKE-WAKE SONG 271
A REIVER'S NECK-VERSE 272
THE WITCH-MOTHER 273
THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY 276
A JACOBITE'S FAREWELL 281
A JACOBITE'S EXILE 282
THE TYNESIDE WIDOW 286
DEDICATION 289
POEMS AND BALLADS
THIRD SERIES
TO
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT
POET AND PAINTER
I DEDICATE THESE POEMS
IN MEMORY OF MANY YEARS
MARCH: AN ODE
1887
I
Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour
of winter had passed out of sight,?The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than dreams that
fulfil us in sleep with delight;?The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree-tops and
branches that glittered and swayed?Such wonders and glories of blossomlike snow or of frost that
outlightens all flowers till it fade?That the sea was not lovelier than here was the land, nor the night
than the day, nor the day than the night,?Nor the winter sublimer with storm than the spring: such mirth had
the madness and might in thee made,?March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that
enkindle the season they smite.
II
And now that the rage of thy rapture is satiate
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