Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

CONTENTS

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
	The 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
Lyrics 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
	Beeny 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
	“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

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