p. vCONTENTS
p. vCONTENTS
PAGE
Moments of Vision
1
The Voice of Things
2
“Why be at pains?”
3
“We sat at the window”
4
Afternoon Service at Mellstock
5
At the Wicket-gate
6
In a Museum
7
Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune
8
At the Word “Farewell”
11
First Sight of Her and After
13
The Rival
14
Heredity
15
“You were the sort that men forget”
16
She, I, and They
17
Near Lanivet, 1872
18
Joys of Memory
20
To the Moon
21
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
22
p. viTo Shakespeare
24
Quid hic agis?
27
On a Midsummer Eve
30
Timing Her
31
Before Knowledge
34
The Blinded Bird
35
“The wind blew words”
36
The Faded Face
37
The Riddle
38
The Duel
39
At Mayfair Lodgings
42
To my Father’s Violin
44
The Statue of Liberty
47
The Background and the Figure
50
The Change
51
Sitting on the Bridge
54
The Young Churchwarden
56
“I travel as a phantom now”
57
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony
58
“In the seventies”
60
The Pedigree
62
This Heart. A Woman’s Dream
65
Where they lived
68
The Occultation
69
Life laughs Onward
70
The Peace-offering
71
p. vii“Something tapped”
72
The Wound
73
A Merrymaking in Question
74
“I said and sang her excellence”
75
A January Night. 1879
77
A Kiss
78
The Announcement
79
The Oxen
80
The Tresses
81
The Photograph
82
On a Heath
84
An Anniversary
85
“By the Runic Stone”
87
The Pink Frock
88
Transformations
89
In her Precincts
90
The Last Signal
91
The House of Silence
93
Great Things
95
The Chimes
97
The Figure in the Scene
98
“Why did I sketch”
99
Conjecture
100
The Blow
101
Love the Monopolist
103
At Middle-field Gate in February
105
p. viiiThe Youth who carried a Light
106
The Head above the Fog
108
Overlooking the River Stour
109
The Musical Box
111
On Sturminster Foot-bridge
113
Royal Sponsors
114
Old Furniture
116
A Thought in Two Moods
118
The Last Performance
119
“You on the tower”
120
The Interloper
122
Logs on the Hearth
124
The Sunshade
126
The Ageing House
128
The Caged Goldfinch
129
At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years
130
The Ballet
132
The Five Students
133
The Wind’s Prophecy
135
During Wind and Rain
137
He prefers her Earthly
139
The Dolls
140
Molly gone
141
A Backward Spring
143
Looking Across
144
At a Seaside Town in 1869
146
p. ixThe Glimpse
149
The Pedestrian
151
“Who’s in the next room?”
153
At a Country Fair
155
The Memorial Brass: 186-
156
Her Love-birds
158
Paying Calls
160
The Upper Birch-Leaves
161
“It never looks like summer”
162
Everything comes
163
The Man with a Past
164
He fears his Good Fortune
166
He wonders about Himself
167
Jubilate
168
He revisits his First School
171
“I thought, my heart”
173
Fragment
174
Midnight on the Great Western
176
Honeymoon Time at an Inn
177
The Robin
181
“I rose and went to Rou’tor town”
183
The Nettles
184
In a Waiting-room
185
The Clock-winder
187
Old Excursions
189
The Masked Face
191
p. xIn a Whispering Gallery
192
The Something that saved Him
193
The Enemy’s Portrait
195
Imaginings
197
On the Doorstep
198
Signs and Tokens
199
Paths of Former Time
201
The Clock of the Years
203
At the Piano
205
The Shadow on the Stone
206
In the Garden
208
The Tree and the Lady
209
An Upbraiding
211
The Young Glass-stainer
212
Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary
213
The Choirmaster’s Burial
215
The Man who forgot
217
While drawing in a Churchyard
219
“For Life I had never cared greatly”
221
Poems of War and Patriotism—
“Men who march away” (Song of the Soldiers)
225
His Country
227
England to Germany in 1914
229
On the Belgian Expatriation
230
p. xiAn Appeal to America on behalf of the Belgian Destitute
231
The Pity of It
232
In Time of Wars and Tumults
233
In Time of “the Breaking of nations”
234
Cry of the Homeless
235
Before Marching and After
237
“Often when warring”
239
Then and Now
240
A Call to National Service
242
The Dead and the Living One
243
A New Year’s Eve in War Time
246
“I met a man”
248
“I looked up from my writing”
250
Finale—
The Coming of the End
255
Afterwards
257