p. vCONTENTS

p. vCONTENTS

Lyrics and Reveries—

PAGE

In Front of the Landscape

3

Channel Firing

7

The Convergence of the Twain

9

The Ghost of the Past

12

After the Visit

14

To Meet, or Otherwise

16

The Difference

18

The Sun on the Bookcase

19

“When I set out for Lyonnesse”

20

A Thunderstorm in Town

21

The Torn Letter

22

Beyond the Last Lamp

25

The Face at the Casement

27

Lost Love

30

“My spirit will not haunt the mound”

31

Wessex Heights

32

In Death divided

35

p. viThe Place on the Map

37

Where the Picnic was

39

The Schreckhorn

41

A Singer asleep

42

A Plaint to Man

45

God’s Funeral

47

Spectres that grieve

52

“Ah, are you digging on my grave?”

54

Satires of Circumstance—

I.

At Tea

59

II.

In Church

60

III.

By her Aunt’s Grave

61

IV.

In the Room of the Bride-elect

62

V.

At the Watering-place

63

VI.

In the Cemetery

64

VII.

Outside the Window

65

VIII.

In the Study

66

IX.

At the Altar-rail

67

X.

In the Nuptial Chamber

68

XI.

In the Restaurant

69

XII.

At the Draper’s

70

XIII.

On the Death-bed

71

XIV.

Over the Coffin

72

XV.

In the Moonlight

73

p. viiLyrics and Reveries (continued)—

Self-unconscious

77

The Discovery

80

Tolerance

81

Before and after Summer

82

At Day-close in November

83

The Year’s Awakening

84

Under the Waterfall

85

The Spell of the Rose

88

St. Launce’s revisited

90

Poems of 1912–13–

The Going

95

Your Last Drive

97

The Walk

99

Rain on a Grace

100

“I found her out there”

102

Without Ceremony

104

Lament

105

The Haunter

107

The Voice

109

His Visitor

110

A Circular

112

A Dream or No

113

After a Journey

115

A Death-ray recalled

117

p. viiiBeeny Cliff

119

At Castle Boterel

121

Places

123

The Phantom Horsewoman

125

Miscellaneous Pieces—

The Wistful Lady

129

The Woman in the Rye

131

The Cheval-Glass

132

The Re-enactment

134

Her Secret

140

“She charged me”

141

The Newcomer’s Wife

142

A Conversation at Dawn

143

A King’s Soliloquy

152

The Coronation

154

Aquae Sulis

157

Seventy-four and Twenty

160

The Elopement

161

“I rose up as my custom is”

163

A Week

165

Had you wept

167

Bereft, she thinks she dreams

169

In the British Museum

170

In the Servants’ Quarters

172

The Obliterate Tomb

175

p. ix“Regret not me”

183

The Recalcitrants

185

Starlings on the Roof

186

The Moon looks in

187

The Sweet Hussy

188

The Telegram

189

The Moth-signal

191

Seen by the Waits

193

The Two Soldiers

194

The Death of Regret

195

In the Days of Crinoline

197

The Roman Gravemounds

199

The Workbox

201

The Sacrilege

203

The Abbey Mason

210

The Jubilee of a Magazine

222

The Satin Shoes

224

Exeunt Omnes

227

A Poet

228

Postscript—

“Men who march away”

229