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Apology | v |
Weathers | 1 |
The maid of Keinton Mandeville | 3 |
Summer Schemes | 5 |
Epeisodia | 6 |
Faintheart in a Railway Train | 8 |
At Moonrise and Onwards | 9 |
The Garden Seat | 11 |
BarthÉlÉmon at Vauxhall | 12 |
“I sometimes think” | 14 |
Jezreel | 15 |
A Jog-trot Pair | 17 |
“The Curtains now are drawn” | 19 |
“According to the Mighty Working” | 21 |
“I was not He” | 22 |
The West-of-Wessex Girl | 23 |
Welcome Home | 25 |
Going and Staying | 26 |
Read by Moonlight | 27 |
At a house in Hampstead | 28 |
A Woman’s Fancy | 30 |
Her Song | 33 |
A Wet August | 35 |
The Dissemblers | 36 |
To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning | 37 |
“A Man was drawing near to me” | 38 |
The Strange House | 40 |
“As ’twere To-night” | 42 |
The Contretemps | 43 |
A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady | 46 |
The Old Gown | 48 |
A Night in November | 50 |
A Duettist to her Pianoforte | 51 |
“Where Three Roads joined” | 53 |
“And There was a Great Calm” | 55 |
Haunting Fingers | 59 |
The Woman I Met | 63 |
“If it’s ever Spring again” | 67 |
The Two Houses | 68 |
On Stinsford Hill at Midnight | 72 |
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House | 74 |
The Selfsame Song | 75 |
The Wanderer | 76 |
A Wife comes back | 78 |
A Young Man’s Exhortation | 81 |
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back | 83 |
A Bygone Occasion | 85 |
Two Serenades | 86 |
The Wedding Morning | 89 |
End of the Year 1912 | 90 |
The Chimes play “Life’s a Bumper!” | 91 |
“I worked no Wile to meet You” | 93 |
At the Railway Station, Upway | 95 |
Side by Side | 96 |
Dream of the City Shopwoman | 98 |
A Maiden’s Pledge | 100 |
The Child and the Sage | 101 |
Mismet | 103 |
An Autumn Rain-scene | 105 |
Meditations on a Holiday | 107 |
An Experience | 111 |
The Beauty | 113 |
The Collector cleans his Picture | 114 |
The Wood Fire | 117 |
Saying Good-bye | 119 |
On the Tune called The Old-hundred-and-fourth | 121 |
The Opportunity | 123 |
Evelyn G. of Christminster | 124 |
The Rift | 126 |
Voices from Things growing | 127 |
On the Way | 130 |
“She did not turn” | 132 |
Growth in May | 133 |
The Children and Sir Nameless | 134 |
At the Royal Academy | 136 |
Her Temple | 138 |
A Two-years’ Idyll | 139 |
By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End | 141 |
Penance | 143 |
“I look in her Face” | 145 |
After the War | 146 |
“If you had known” | 148 |
The Chapel-Organist | 150 |
Fetching Her | 157 |
“Could I but will” | 159 |
She revisits alone the Church of her Marriage | 161 |
At the Entering of the New Year | 163 |
They would not come | 165 |
After a Romantic Day | 167 |
The Two Wives | 168 |
“I knew a Lady” | 170 |
A House with a History | 171 |
A Procession of Dead Days | 173 |
He follows Himself | 176 |
The Singing Woman | 178 |
Without, not within Her | 179 |
“O I won’t lead a Homely Life” | 180 |
In the Small Hours | 181 |
The Little Old Table | 183 |
Vagg Hollow | 184 |
The Dream is—which? | 186 |
The Country Wedding | 187 |
First or Last | 190 |
Lonely Days | 191 |
“What did it mean?” | 194 |
At the Dinner-table | 196 |
The Marble Tablet | 198 |
The Master and the Leaves | 199 |
Last Words to a Dumb Friend | 201 |
A Drizzling Easter morning | 204 |
On One who lived and died where He was born | 205 |
The Second Night | 207 |
She who saw not | 210 |
The Old Workman | 212 |
The Sailor’s Mother | 214 |
Outside the Casement | 216 |
The Passer-by | 218 |
“I was the Midmost” | 220 |
A Sound in the Night | 221 |
On a Discovered Curl of Hair | 226 |
An Old Likeness | 227 |
Her Apotheosis | 229 |
“Sacred to the Memory” | 230 |
To a Well-named Dwelling | 231 |
The Whipper-in | 232 |
A Military Appointment | 234 |
The Milestone by the Rabbit-burrow | 236 |
The Lament of the Looking-glass | 237 |
Cross-currents | 238 |
The Old Neighbour and the New | 240 |
The Chosen | 241 |
The Inscription | 244 |
The Marble-streeted Town | 251 |
A Woman driving | 252 |
A Woman’s Trust | 254 |
Best Times | 256 |
The Casual Acquaintance | 258 |
Intra Sepulchrum | 260 |
The Whitewashed Wall | 262 |
Just the Same | 264 |
The Last Time | 265 |
The Seven Times | 266 |
The Sun’s Last Look on the Country Girl | 269 |
In a London Flat | 270 |
Drawing Details in an Old Church | 272 |
Rake-hell muses | 273 |
The Colour | 277 |
Murmurs in the Gloom | 279 |
Epitaph | 281 |
An Ancient to Ancients | 282 |
After reading psalms xxxix., xl. | 285 |
Surview | 287 |