p. xiCONTENTS
p. xiCONTENTS
PAGE
V.R. 1819–1901
231
WAR POEMS—
Embarcation
235
Departure
237
The Colonel’s Soliloquy
239
The Going of the Battery
242
At the War Office
245
A Christmas Ghost-Story
247
The Dead Drummer
249
A Wife in London
251
The Souls of the Slain
253
Song of the Soldiers’ Wives
260
The Sick God
263
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE—
Genoa and the Mediterranean
269
Shelley’s Skylark
272
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole
274
Rome: on the Palatine
276
,, Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
278
,, The Vatican: Sala Delle Muse
280
,, At the Pyramid of Cestius
283
Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden
286
Zermatt: To the Matterhorn
288
The Bridge of Lodi
290
On an Invitation to the United States
295
p. xiiMISCELLANEOUS POEMS—
The Mother Mourns
299
“I said to Love”
305
A Commonplace Day
307
At a Lunar Eclipse
310
The Lacking Sense
312
To Life
316
Doom and She
318
The Problem
321
The Subalterns
323
The Sleep-worker
325
The Bullfinches
327
God-Forgotten
329
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God
333
By the Earth’s Corpse
336
Mute Opinion
339
To an Unborn Pauper Child
341
To Flowers from Italy in Winter
344
On a Fine Morning
346
To Lizbie Browne
348
Song of Hope
352
The Well-Beloved
354
Her Reproach
358
The Inconsistent
360
A Broken Appointment
362
“Between us now”
364
“How great my Grief”
366
“I need not go”
367
The Coquette, and After
369
p. xiiiA Spot
371
Long Plighted
373
The Widow
375
At a Hasty Wedding
378
The Dream-Follower
379
His Immortality
380
The To-be-Forgotten
382
Wives in the Sere
385
The Superseded
387
An August Midnight
389
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again
391
Birds at Winter Nightfall
393
The Puzzled Game-Birds
394
Winter in Durnover Field
395
The Last Chrysanthemum
397
The Darkling Thrush
399
The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham
402
Mad Judy
403
A Wasted Illness
405
A Man
408
The Dame of Athelhall
412
The Seasons of her Year
416
The Milkmaid
418
The Levelled Churchyard
420
The Ruined Maid
422
The Respectable Burgher on “the Higher Criticism”
425
Architectural Masks
428
The Tenant-for-Life
430
p. xivThe King’s Experiment
432
The Tree: an Old Man’s Story
435
Her Late Husband
439
The Self-Unseeing
441
De Profundis i.
443
De Profundis ii.
445
De Profundis iii.
448
The Church-Builder
451
The Lost Pyx: a Mediæval Legend
457
Tess’s Lament
462
The Supplanter: A Tale
465
IMITATIONS, Etc.—
Sapphic Fragment
473
Catullus: xxxi
474
After Schiller
476
Song: From Heine
477
From Victor Hugo
479
Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael
480
RETROSPECT—
“I have Lived with Shades”
483
Memory and I
486
ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.
489