Ardours and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems and Phantasies

CONTENTS

BOOK I
ARDOURS AND ENDURANCES
The Summons:		PAGE
I.	To——	4
II.	The Past	5
III.	The Reckoning	6
Farewell To Place of Comfort		7
The Approach:
I.	In the Grass: Halt by Roadside	12
II.	The Day's March	13
III.	Nearer	15
Battle:
I.	Noon	18
II.	Night Bombardment	19
III.	Comrades: An Episode	22
IV.	Behind the Lines: Night, France	27
V.	At the Wars	28
VI.	Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight	30
VII.	Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn	32
VIII.	Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches	35
IX.	The Assault	37
X.	The Last Morning	42
XI.	Fulfilment	44
The Dead:
I.	The Burial in Flanders	46
II.	Boy	48
III.	Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken	51
IV.	By the Wood	55
The Aftermath:
I.	At the Ebb	58
II.	Alone	60
III.	Thanksgiving	61
IV.	Annihilated	62
V.	Shut of Night	63
VI.	The Full Heart	65
VII.	Sonnet: Our Dead	66
VIII.	Deliverance	67

BOOK II
A FAUN'S HOLIDAY		69

BOOK III
POEMS AND PHANTASIES
A Triptych:
	First Panel: The Hill	140
II.	Second and Centre Panel: The Tower	146
III.	Third Panel: The Tree	150

Four Songs From "The Prince of Ormuz":
I.	The Prince of Ormuz sings to Badoura	154
II.	The Song of the Princess Beside the Fountain	155
III.	The Song of the Prince in Disguise	156
IV.	The Princess Badoura's Last Song to her Lover	157
The Gift of Song		160
Fragments from "Orestes":
I.	Warning Unheeded	164
II.	Orestes to the Furies	167
Black Songs:
I.	At Braydon	170
II.	Midday on the Edge of the Downs	172
III.	In Dorsetshire	173
Man's Anacreontic		176
The Blackbird		179
Change		180
Transfiguration		181
Plaint of Pierrot Ill-Used		183
Girl's Song from "The Tailor"		188
Last Song in an Opera		190
DanaË: Mystery in Eight Poems		191
The Ecstasy		199
The Water-Lily		201
Deem You the Roses		202
The Passion		203
Last Words		206

My thanks are due to the editor of the Times and of the Nation, to the editors of the Palatine Review, and to Messrs. Blackwell, Oxford, the publishers of "Oxford Poetry, 1915," and "Oxford Poetry, 1916," for permission to reprint certain of these poems.

R. M. B. N.

1917.

Clyx.com