TO J. M.,

Let Fate or Insufficiency provide

LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA,

Now farewell to you! you are

TIME AND SENTIMENT,

I see a fair young couple in a wood,

LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT,

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose

THE STAR SIRIUS,

Bright Sirius! that when Orion pales

SENSE AND SPIRIT,

The senses loving Earth or well or ill

EARTH’S SECRET,

Not solitarily in fields we find

INTERNAL HARMONY,

Assured of worthiness we do not dread

GRACE AND LOVE,

Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she

APPRECIATION,

Earth was not Earth before her sons appeared,

THE DISCIPLINE OF WISDOM,

Rich labour is the struggle to be wise

THE STATE OF AGE,

Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor beg

PROGRESS,

In Progress you have little faith, say you:

THE WORLD’S ADVANCE,

Judge mildly the tasked world; and disincline

A CERTAIN PEOPLE,

As Puritans they prominently wax,

THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS,

That Garden of sedate Philosophy

A LATER ALEXANDRIAN,

An inspiration caught from dubious hues

AN ORSON OF THE MUSE,

Her son, albeit the Muse’s livery

THE POINT OF TASTE,

Unhappy poets of a sunken prime!

CAMELUS SALTAT,

What say you, critic, now you have become

CONTINUED,

Oracle of the market! thence you drew

MY THEME,

Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt:

CONTINUED,

’Tis true the wisdom that my mind exacts

ON THE DANGER OF WAR,

Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed,

TO CARDINAL MANNING,

I, wakeful for the skylark voice in men,

TO COLONEL CHARLES,

An English heart, my commandant,

TO CHILDREN: FOR TYRANTS,

Strike not thy dog with a stick!

Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN,

Enter these enchanted woods,

A BALLAD OF PAST MERIDIAN,

Last night returning from my twilight walk

THE DAY OF THE DAUGHTER OF HADES,

He who has looked upon Earth

THE LARK ASCENDING,

He rises and begins to round,

PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS,

When by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked,

MELAMPUS,

With love exceeding a simple love of the things

LOVE IN THE VALLEY,

Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward,

THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD,

Carols nature, counsel men,

THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH,

I chanced upon an early walk to spy

EARTH AND MAN,

On her great venture, Man,

A BALLAD OF FAIR LADIES IN REVOLT,

See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath

Ballads and poems of Tragic Life

THE TWO MASKS,

Melpomene among her livid people,

ARCHDUCHESS ANNE,

THE SONG OF THEODOLINDA,

Queen Theodolind has built

A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD,

Ladies who in chains of wedlock

THE YOUNG PRINCESS,

KING HARALD’S TRANCE,

Sword in length a reaping-hook amain

WHIMPER OF SYMPATHY,

Hawk or shrike has done this deed

YOUNG REYNARD,

Gracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cub

MANFRED,

Projected from the bilious Childe,

HERNANI,

Cistercians might crack their sides

THE NUPTIALS OF ATTILA,

Flat as to an eagle’s eye,

ANEURIN’S HARP,

Prince of Bards was old Aneurin;

MEN AND MAN,

Men the Angels eyed;

THE LAST CONTENTION,

Young captain of a crazy bark!

PERIANDER,

How died Melissa none dares shape in words.

SOLON,

The Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye

BELLEROPHON,

Maimed, beggared, grey; seeking an alms; with nod

PHAÉTHÔN,

At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,

A Reading of Earth

SEED-TIME,

Flowers of the willow-herb are wool;

HARD WEATHER,

Bursts from a rending East in flaws

THE SOUTH-WESTER,

Day of the cloud in fleets! O day

THE THRUSH IN FEBRUARY,

I know him, February’s thrush,

THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER,

Demeter devastated our good land,

EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN,

The shepherd, with his eye on hazy South,

MOTHER TO BABE,

Fleck of sky you are,

WOODLAND PEACE,

Sweet as Eden is the air,

THE QUESTION WHITHER,

When we have thrown off this old suit,

OUTER AND INNER,

From twig to twig the spider weaves

NATURE AND LIFE,

Leave the uproar: at a leap

DIRGE IN WOODS,

A wind sways the pines,

A FAITH ON TRIAL,

On the morning of May,

CHANGE IN RECURRENCE,

I stood at the gate of the cot

HYMN TO COLOUR,

With Life and Death I walked when Love appeared,

MEDITATION UNDER STARS,

What links are ours with orbs that are

WOODMAN AND ECHO,

Close Echo hears the woodman’s axe,

THE WISDOM OF ELD,

We spend our lives in learning pilotage,

EARTH’S PREFERENCE,

Earth loves her young: a preference manifest:

SOCIETY,

Historic be the survey of our kind,

WINTER HEAVENS,

Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive

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