AUTHOR'S NOTE
CONTENTS
WHIPPERGINNY ("A card game, obsolete." Standard Dictionary. )
THE BEDPOST
A LOVER SINCE CHILDHOOD
SONG OF CONTRARIETY
THE RIDGE-TOP
SONG IN WINTER
UNICORN AND THE WHITE DOE
SULLEN MOODS
A FALSE REPORT
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS ("In their generation wiser than the children of Light.")
RICHARD ROE AND JOHN DOE
THE DIALECTICIANS
THE LANDS OF WHIPPERGINNY ("Heaven or Hell or the Lands of Whipperginny." Nashe's Jack Wilton .)
"THE GENERAL ELLIOTT"
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH
OLD WIVES' TALES
CHRISTMAS EVE
THE SNAKE AND THE BULL
THE RED RIBBON DREAM
IN PROCESSION
HENRY AND MARY
AN ENGLISH WOOD
MIRROR, MIRROR!
WHAT DID I DREAM?
INTERLUDE: ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA (I) "There's less
A HISTORY OF PEACE (Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant)
THE ROCK BELOW
AN IDYLL OF OLD AGE
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TELLS OF A FAMOUS MEETING
THE SEWING BASKET (Accompanying a wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts)
AGAINST CLOCK AND COMPASSES
THE AVENGERS
ON THE POET'S BIRTH
THE TECHNIQUE OF PERFECTION
THE SIBYL
A CRUSADER
A NEW PORTRAIT OF JUDITH OF BETHULIA
A REVERSAL
THE MARTYRED DECADENTS: A SYMPATHETIC SATIRE
EPIGRAMS ON CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Here ranted Isaac's elder son,
THE BOWL AND RIM
A FORCED MUSIC
THE TURN OF A PAGE
THE MANIFESTATION IN THE TEMPLE
TO ANY SAINT
A DEWDROP
A VALENTINE
WHIPPERGINNY
BY ROBERT GRAVES NEW YORK ALFRED A. KNOPF : MCMXXIII TO EDWARD MARSH Printed in Great Britain
