Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

CONTENTS

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Moments of Vision		1
The Voice of Things		2
“Why be at pains?”		3
“We sat at the window”		4
Afternoon Service at Mellstock		5
At the Wicket-gate		6
In a Museum		7
Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune		8
At the Word “Farewell”		11
First Sight of Her and After		13
The Rival		14
Heredity		15
“You were the sort that men forget”		16
She, I, and They		17
Near Lanivet, 1872		18
Joys of Memory		20
To the Moon		21
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster		22
To Shakespeare		24
Quid hic agis?		27
On a Midsummer Eve		30
Timing Her		31
Before Knowledge		34
The Blinded Bird		35
“The wind blew words”		36
The Faded Face		37
The Riddle		38
The Duel		39
At Mayfair Lodgings		42
To my Father’s Violin		44
The Statue of Liberty		47
The Background and the Figure		50
The Change		51
Sitting on the Bridge		54
The Young Churchwarden		56
“I travel as a phantom now”		57
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony		58
“In the seventies”		60
The Pedigree		62
This Heart. A Woman’s Dream		65
Where they lived		68
The Occultation		69
Life laughs Onward		70
The Peace-offering		71
“Something tapped”		72
The Wound		73
A Merrymaking in Question		74
“I said and sang her excellence”		75
A January Night. 1879		77
A Kiss		78
The Announcement		79
The Oxen		80
The Tresses		81
The Photograph		82
On a Heath		84
An Anniversary		85
“By the Runic Stone”		87
The Pink Frock		88
Transformations		89
In her Precincts		90
The Last Signal		91
The House of Silence		93
Great Things		95
The Chimes		97
The Figure in the Scene		98
“Why did I sketch”		99
Conjecture		100
The Blow		101
Love the Monopolist		103
At Middle-field Gate in February		105
The Youth who carried a Light		106
The Head above the Fog		108
Overlooking the River Stour		109
The Musical Box		111
On Sturminster Foot-bridge		113
Royal Sponsors		114
Old Furniture		116
A Thought in Two Moods		118
The Last Performance		119
“You on the tower”		120
The Interloper		122
Logs on the Hearth		124
The Sunshade		126
The Ageing House		128
The Caged Goldfinch		129
At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years		130
The Ballet		132
The Five Students		133
The Wind’s Prophecy		135
During Wind and Rain		137
He prefers her Earthly		139
The Dolls		140
Molly gone		141
A Backward Spring		143
Looking Across		144
At a Seaside Town in 1869		146
The Glimpse		149
The Pedestrian		151
“Who’s in the next room?”		153
At a Country Fair		155
The Memorial Brass: 186-		156
Her Love-birds		158
Paying Calls		160
The Upper Birch-Leaves		161
“It never looks like summer”		162
Everything comes		163
The Man with a Past		164
He fears his Good Fortune		166
He wonders about Himself		167
Jubilate		168
He revisits his First School		171
“I thought, my heart”		173
Fragment		174
Midnight on the Great Western		176
Honeymoon Time at an Inn		177
The Robin		181
“I rose and went to Rou’tor town”		183
The Nettles		184
In a Waiting-room		185
The Clock-winder		187
Old Excursions		189
The Masked Face		191
In a Whispering Gallery		192
The Something that saved Him		193
The Enemy’s Portrait		195
Imaginings		197
On the Doorstep		198
Signs and Tokens		199
Paths of Former Time		201
The Clock of the Years		203
At the Piano		205
The Shadow on the Stone		206
In the Garden		208
The Tree and the Lady		209
An Upbraiding		211
The Young Glass-stainer		212
Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary		213
The Choirmaster’s Burial		215
The Man who forgot		217
While drawing in a Churchyard		219
“For Life I had never cared greatly”		221
Poems of War and Patriotism—
	“Men who march away” (Song of the Soldiers)	225
	His Country	227
	England to Germany in 1914	229
	On the Belgian Expatriation	230
	An Appeal to America on behalf of the Belgian Destitute	231
	The Pity of It	232
	In Time of Wars and Tumults	233
	In Time of “the Breaking of nations”	234
	Cry of the Homeless	235
	Before Marching and After	237
	“Often when warring”	239
	Then and Now	240
	A Call to National Service	242
	The Dead and the Living One	243
	A New Year’s Eve in War Time	246
	“I met a man”	248
	“I looked up from my writing”	250
Finale—
	The Coming of the End	255
	Afterwards	257

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