| I. SONNETS |
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| I. | Lift up your Hearts in Gumber, laugh the Weald | 3 |
| II. | I was like one that keeps the Deck by Night | 4 |
| III. | Rise up and do begin the Day’s Adorning | 5 |
| IV. | The Winter Moon has such a quiet Car | 6 |
| V. | Whatever Moisture nourishes the Rose | 7 |
| VI. | Youth gave you to me, but I’ll not believe | 8 |
| VII. | Mortality is but the Stuff you wear | 9 |
| VIII. | Not for the Luckless Buds our Roots may bear | 10 |
| IX. | That which is one they Shear and make it Twain | 11 |
| X. | Shall any Man for whose strong love another | 12 |
| XI. | They that have taken Wages of things done | 13 |
| XII. | Beauty that Parent is to deathless Rhyme | 14 |
| XIII. | What are the Names for Beauty? Who shall praise | 15 |
| XIV. | Love wooing Honour, Honour’s Love did win | 16 |
| XV. | Your Life is like a little Winter’s Day | 17 |
| XVI. | Now shall the certain Purpose of my Soul | 18 |
| XVII. | Because my faltering Feet may fail to dare | 19 |
| XVIII. | When you to Acheron’s ugly Water come | 20 |
| XIX. | We will not Whisper, we have found the Place | 21 |
| XX. | I went to Sleep at Dawn in Tuscany | 22 |
| XXI. | Almighty God, whose Justice like a Sun | 23 |
| XXII. | Mother of all my Cities once there lay | 24 |
| XXIII. | November is that Historied Emperor | 25 |
| XXIV. | Hoar Time about the House betakes him Slow | 26 |
| XXV. | It Freezes: all across a soundless Sky | 27 |
| XXVI. | O my Companion, O my Sister Sleep | 28 |
| XXVII. | Are you the End, Despair, or the poor least | 29 |
| XXVIII. | But Oh! not Lovely Helen, nor the Pride | 30 |
| XXIX. | The World’s a Stage. The Light is in One’s Eyes | 31 |
| XXX. | The World’s a Stage—and I’m the Super Man | 32 |
| XXXI. | The World’s a Stage. The trifling Entrance Fee | 33 |
| LYRICAL, DIDACTIC AND GROTESQUE |
| To Dives | 37 |
| Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale | 39 |
| The South Country | 42 |
| The Fanatic | 45 |
| The Early Morning | 48 |
| Our Lord and Our Lady | 49 |
| Courtesy | 51 |
| The Night | 53 |
| The Leader | 54 |
| A Bivouac | 56 |
| To the Balliol Men still in Africa | 57 |
| Verses to a Lord who, in the House of Lords, said that those who Opposed the South African Adventure confused Soldiers with Money-Grubbers | 59 |
| The Rebel | 61 |
| The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening | 63 |
| The End of the Road | 65 |
| An Oracle that Warned the Writer when on Pilgrimage | 67 |
| The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter | 68 |
| Dedicatory Ode | 70 |
| Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child | 78 |
| Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary Tales | 79 |
| Homage | 80 |
| The Moon’s Funeral | 81 |
| The Happy Journalist | 83 |
| Lines to a Don | 85 |
| Newdigate Poem | 88 |
| The Yellow Mustard | 93 |
| The Politician or the Irish Earldom | 94 |
| The Loser | 96 |
| SONGS |
| NoËl | 99 |
| The Birds | 101 |
| In a Boat | 102 |
| Song inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year | 104 |
| The Ring | 105 |
| Cuckoo! | 106 |
| The Little Serving Maid | 107 |
| Auvergnat | 110 |
| Drinking Song, on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine | 111 |
| Drinking Dirge | 113 |
| West Sussex Drinking Song | 115 |
| A Ballad on Sociological Economics | 117 |
| Heretics All | 118 |
| Ha’nacker Mill | 119 |
| Tarantella | 120 |
| The Chaunty of the “Nona” | 122 |
| The Winged Horse | 125 |
| Strephon’s Song (from “The Cruel Shepherdess”) | 127 |
| IV. BALLADES |
| Short Ballade and Postscript on Consols and Boers | 131 |
| Ballade of the Unanswered Question | 134 |
| Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa | 136 |
| Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck | 138 |
| Ballade of Unsuccessful Men | 140 |
| Ballade of the Heresiarchs | 142 |
| V. EPIGRAMS | 147 |
| VI. THE BALLAD OF VAL-ÈS-DUNES | 157 |
