CONTENTS

CHILLIANWALLAH [1]

THE DOE: A FRAGMENT ( FROM ' WANDERING WILLIE ')

BEAUTY ROHTRAUT ( FROM MORICKE )

THE OLIVE BRANCH

SONG

THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP

THE DEATH OF WINTER

SONG (2)

JOHN LACKLAND

THE SLEEPING CITY

THE POETRY OF CHAUCER

THE POETRY OF SPENSER

THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE

THE POETRY OF MILTON

THE POETRY OF SOUTHEY

THE POETRY OF COLERIDGE

THE POETRY OF SHELLEY

THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH

THE POETRY OF KEATS

VIOLETS

ANGELIC LOVE

TWILIGHT MUSIC

REQUIEM

THE FLOWER OF THE RUINS

THE RAPE OF AURORA

SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND

WILL O' THE WISP

SONG (3)

SONG (4)

SONG (5)

DAPHNE

LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT

SONG (6)

PASTORALS I

TO A SKYLARK

SONG SPRING

SONG AUTUMN

SORROWS AND JOYS

SONG (7)

SONG (8)

ANTIGONE

SONG (9)

THE TWO BLACKBIRDS

JULY I

SONG (10)

SONG (11)

THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS

THE LONGEST DAY

TO ROBIN REDBREAST

SONG (12)

SUNRISE

PICTURES OF THE RHINE I

TO A NIGHTINGALE

INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY

THE SWEET O' THE YEAR

AUTUMN EVEN-SONG

THE SONG OF COURTESY I

THE THREE MAIDENS

OVER THE HILLS

JUGGLING JERRY I

THE CROWN OF LOVE

THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST I

THE MEETING

THE BEGGAR'S SOLILOQUY I

BY THE ROSANNA TO F. M.

PHANTASY I

THE OLD CHARTIST I

SONG [163]

TO ALEX. SMITH, THE 'GLASGOW POET,' [164] ON HIS SONNET TO 'FAME'

GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN I

THE PROMISE IN DISTURBANCE

MODERN LOVE I

THE PATRIOT ENGINEER

CASSANDRA I

THE YOUNG USURPER

MARGARET'S BRIDAL EVE I

MARIAN I

BY MORNING TWILIGHT

UNKNOWN FAIR FACES

SHEMSELNIHAR

A ROAR THROUGH THE TALL TWIN ELM-TREES

WHEN I WOULD IMAGE

THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE

CONTINUED

ODE TO THE SPIRIT OF EARTH IN AUTUMN

MARTIN'S PUZZLE I

FOOTNOTES

Home cottage, Box Hill

POEMS
VOL. I

BY
GEORGE MEREDITH

SURREY EDITION

LONDON
THE TIMES BOOK CLUB
376–384 OXFORD STREET, W.
1912

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to his Majesty