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Contents

I. Two Legends

• Glastonbury

• Legend

II. First Poems

• Rime

• To an Elzevir Cicero

• To a DÜrer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour

• Pure Virginia

• A Preface for a Tale I have never told

• A Sonnet

• “It was all in the Black Countree”

• To a Pianist

• A Fragment

• Sea Poppies

• “O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind”

• Ære Perennius

• The Old Kings

• “O there be Kings whose Treasuries”

• A Study

• The Eremite

• The House of Eld

• The South-west Wind

• Schumann: Erstes Verlust

• “Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky”

• “Wind of the Darkness”

• Creator Spiritus

• Wind over the Sea

• Songs on the Downs

III. Last Poems and “The Burial of Sophocles”

• “We who have bowed ourselves to Time”

• Anglia Valida in Senectute

• “Dark is the World our Fathers left us”

• Awakening

• Ave atque Vale

• “O, one came down from Seven Hills”

• Sonnet to the British Navy

• The Last Meeting

• The New Age and the Old

• To the Cultured

• Afterwards

• Domum redit Poeta

• Memories

• Intercessional

• April 1916

• “Over the Hills and Hollows Green”

• Sonnet

• “O Long the Fiends of War shall dance”

• For R. Q. G.

• “Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring”

• “Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes”

• “Save that Poetic Fire”

• The Burial of Sophocles

• “So we lay down the Pen”