INDEX

Achilles, modern, questioning Ulysses, [189]
After-harvest, stillness of, [99]
Aphrodite, [169]
Apollo and Pan, [27]
Apple blossom, [166-169]
Ash-tree, solitary, dying, endiademed with woe, [53], [54];
how its leaves are shed, [124]
August, [73-76];
Nature’s perfect poise, [73];
cool places in, [73];
the woods in, [75]
Autumn, [176]
Autumn bells, [174], [175]
Autumn garden, an, [93-96], [174], [175];
farmhouse the royal flower of, [93];
a farmer’s love of his, [95]
Ballad, a pathetic, described, [207], [208];
on the horse, [190], [237]
Ballads and folk-songs, [206-208];
their words and melodies richest in immortal symbols, [206], [207]
Barge, a black, [143-145];
its strange cargo, [145]
Beech wood, a, [166]
Birdnesting, [60]
“Blue Bell,” the cosmic melody, [194]
Bodleian Library, August in, [73]
Books, a night with, [118]
Boy, long thoughts of, [3]
Brook, the, [88-92];
its insect, mineral, and plant life, [88-91];
its meandering course, [91], [92]
Burns, Robert, prejudice against his poetry for epitaphs, [114]
Calm, effect of, [2]
Carbonek, castle of, [225-232];
now only a ruined crag, [226];
dreary outlook from, [226];
and Sir Launcelot’s vision, [229-232]
Cassiopeia, the constellation, [194]
Catullus, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Centaur, farmer on horse compared to, [66]
Chalk hills, the, [171]
Cherry blossom, [153], [154]
Cherry of Zennor, Hunt’s story of, [198-201];
her dissatisfaction with home, [199];
her strange adventure, [199];
her curiosity and its consequences, [200], [201]
Church bells, [176]
Church, decorated, description of, [41-48];
service in, [41-43];
hymn-singing, [42];
modern worshippers and mythical gods, [43];
caged bells, [43]
Church, village, description of, [176-178];
dull worshippers, [177];
a spiritless sermon, [178];
dream of an earthly heaven, [178-180]
Clock, a silent, [118], [119]
Clouds on the sea, [216-219];
their changeableness, [217], [218]
Coach, London, [78]
Company, good, walking in, [28-30]
Country churchyard, a, [111-115];
village life in, [111];
life and death in, [111], [112];
epitaphs, [112-115];
eighteenth and nineteenth century epitaphs compared, [112]
Country lover, the, [91]
Crashaw’s poem, [62]
Daffodils, the first, [183-191]
Dante, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Dawn, beauties of nature at, [15], [16];
a July, [119]
Deucalion stones, [223]
Dis, chariot of, coming to Persephone, [148]
“Dolly Gray,” sung in July fields, [206]
Downs, the, [171-3]
Dream, a strange, [39], [40]
Earth Children, [126-137]
Elves, lingering superstitions regarding, [66]
Epitaph on infant’s tomb, [24]
Epitaphs, [112-115];
history and progress seen in, [112];
sources of, [113], [114]
“Fantastic summer’s heat,” [73]
Farm, an old, [64-68];
relics of its long-dead generations, [67];
a deserted, [69], [70]
Farmer, his life and habits, [66-68];
his house, [67];
his library, [67], [68];
relics of ancestors and thoughts of posterity, [68]
Farmer’s daughter, the, [168], [169]
Farmhouse, the royal flower of autumn, [93];
youth and antiquity mingled in the aspect of, [93], [94];
wayfarer’s first view of, [96];
a little red, [100];
life in, [101]
Farmyard, in a, [52-55]
Faunus, [21-25]
Fell and moor, [184]
Field, a green, [84-87];
antiquity of, [86];
November the notable month of, [87]
Fields, antiquity of, [86]
Fishing-boats in a tidal river, [214], [215]
Footpaths, ancient, [115]
“Four Elms, The,” typical village inn, [106], [110];
its old-time furniture, [107];
tramps and labourers in tap-room, [107-110]
Fox-hunt, [141], [155-165]
Gaberdine, a pedlar’s description of, [186]
Galahad and Launcelot, [228]
Gardens, summer flowers in, [170], [171];
autumn flowers, [174], [175]
Garland day, [44-48];
song of, [48]
Gods, ancient, and modern worshippers, [42], [43];
and heroes, [54]
Golden Age, the, [13], [15], [16], [100-102];
and modern literature, [14]
Goldfinches happy among thistles, [87]
Good Friday and marbles, [60]
Happiness, pursuit of, futile, [83]
Happy Fields, [73]
Harvest, a little before, [170-173]
Harvest field, a moonlight love-race in, [201-204]
Harvest moon, under a, [202-204]
Haul of spring flowers, a March, [211-213]
Hazlitt, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Heathland in the wind, [216], [217]
Hedges, unruliness of, [84]
Heroes and gods, [54]
Hill, a tall beechen, [153]
Holm-bank Hunting Song the, [194]
“Hop-idgit,” the, or “shim,” [126]
Horse, ballad on the, [190]
House, white stone, [74]
Hunt’s story of Cherry of Zennor, [198]
Inn, the village, [205-208];
metamorphosed into a temple of all souls, [208]
Inns, [63], [104], [106], [123], [183], [194];
a medley, [5];
roadside, [5], [61]
January sunshine, [140-142]
July night, and dawn, a, reminiscences of a, [118], [119]
Junonian woman, [73], [76];
best representative of August, [73]
Keats, [147], [148]
Kilhwch, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
King, Farmer, anecdote of his hay, [129]
Labourer, aged, reminiscences of, [77-82];
a memory with a voice, [79];
feats of strength and endurance, [80], [81];
his coaching days, [81];
disciple of Culpeper, [82]
Lamia and Lycius, [226]
Landscapes on the walls by the roadside, [192]
Lane, an ideal country, [56], [57]
Launcelot, Sir, at the water of Morteise, [228];
his vision of the Sangreal, [228];
his adventures, [228-232];
at the castle of Carbonek, [229-232]
Lethe, [214]
Lethe’s stream, the flotsam on, [101]
Literature, modern, [14]
London, [7], [188];
midnight walk in, [7];
pedestrians encountered, [7], [8];
river, seen from bridge, [8];
names of streets an epitome of the world and time, [9];
can it be told? [188], [189];
The Soul of London, [188]
Love-race in a moonlit harvest-field, [201-204]
Lover’s game, children playing at, [59]
Lycius, Corinthian, and Lamia, [226]
Malory’s story of Sir Launcelot and the Sangreal, [228]
Marbles and Good Friday, [60]
March doubts, [37-40]
March haul, a, [211], [213]
Marlowe, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Marsh, the, [220-222]
“Mary, come into the Field,” a peasant song, [34], [35], [237], [238]
Maypole, the village, [70]
Meadowland, [56-63];
pastoral inhabitants of, [58]
Meadow-sweet, the, [75]
Men prisons to themselves, [7]
Meredith, Arabella, old man’s love-story concerning, [157-163];
her prowess in the hunting-field, [158];
her proposal of marriage, [159];
at the Fair, [161];
her lover’s daring swim, [162], [163];
her death, [163]
Merediths, the, [157]
Metamorphosis of the trees, [124]
Mind, pool an image of the, [154]
Moon, reign of, [153], [154]
Moor and fell, [184]
Moor, under the, [198-201]
Moorhen, the home of the, [85]
Morning, pride of the, [121-123]
Morteise, water of, Sir Launcelot at the, [228]
Mountainous country, scene in, [183]
Mountains haunting the day, [184]
Mowing, extraordinary day’s work at, [80], [81];
song, [11], [235]
Music, the romantic cry of matter striving to become spirit, [206]
Myratana and blind Tiriel, [226]
Names, of streets, an epitome, [9];
of inns, rich in suggestion, [9]
Nature, sorrowing, [5];
a philosopher of, [12];
beauties of, at dawn, [15], [16], [119]
No man’s garden, [31-36]
November, the notable month of the field, [87];
rain, [138], [139]
Orchard, an, [167]
Pace-egging Play, [179]
Paganism, eternal, the multitude’s, [130], [131]
Page, Margaret Helen, earth child, [127];
her better days, [127];
her Franciscan fondness for bird and beast, [127];
her Christian-pagan prayer and aspirations, [128-130]
Page, Robert, earth child, [126];
his home, [127];
his varied avocations, [131], [132];
his belief of all things in print, [133];
his strange dream of the judgment day, [133], [134];
Bacchus his only god, [134];
his likeness to a lesser god in mythology, [135], [136]
Palomides, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Pan and Apollo, [27]
Pastoral inhabitants of meadowland, [58];
song, [58];
valley, [174]
Pedlar, a, [186];
his picturesque dress, [186];
his birthplace, [186];
his simple life described, [187];
his questionings, [187-190]
Pelleas, [228]
Pellinore, [228]
Persephone and the chariot of Dis, [148]
Pleiades, the, and clouds, [218]
Ploughman, the, [22-25];
his daily task, [23];
his recreation, [23], [24]
Poetry, pastoral, [14]
Poison, slow, dream-search for, [39], [40]
Pond, a primeval, [52], [53];
the field, [85];
its aspect at dawn, [86]
Pond-mirror, the, [192-197];
reflections on and in, [196], [197]
Pool, beauties of, [73-76];
an image of the mind, reflections in, [154]
“Poor Mary,” children’s lovers’ game, [59], [60]
Poppies, [71]
Popular Romances of the West of England, Hunt’s, [198]
Pork, roast, procuring a dinner of, [79], [80]
Princess, an impossible, [72]
Rain, night walk in, [5], [6]
River, a tidal, fishing-heats in, [214]
Robin’s eggs, superstition regarding, [60]
Ruy Blas, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Sail, one, at sea, [223], [224];
image of watcher’s hopes, [223]
St. Martin’s Summer, [118-120]
Sangreal, Sir Launcelot and the, [228], [229]
Sea, clouds on the, [216], [219];
one sail at, [223], [224]
Seifelmolouk, modern, and his memlooks, [43]
“Shim,” or “hop-idgit” of six tynes, the Sussex, [126]
Sign-post, duty of, [10]
Siren, melody of, [220]
Song, a country marching, [11], [235]
Songs, old, fragments of, [29], [30], [34]
Songs with music: Mowing song, [235];
Holm-bank Hunting Song, [236];
Poor old Horse, song of the, [237];
Mary, come into the Field [237], [238];
La Fille du Roi, [238]
Soul of London, the, [188]
Sovereign things, three: ship, chariot, plough, [21]
Spring, birds and flowers, [37-40]
Squire of olden days, a, [79]
Streets, as seen from railway carriage, [3], [4];
a problem, [4];
at night, [8];
city, [9];
names of, an epitome, [9]
Suburban street, a, [1]
Summer garden, [170], [171]
Summer-time, [170]
Sunday, autumn, in country, [176-180]
Sunshine, January, [140-142]
Superstitions: robin’s eggs, [60];
elves, [66];
tadpoles, [82]
Swift, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Symbols that surge and satisfy, [205]
Tadpoles, rustic remedy for “decline,” [82]
Tartarus, [131]
Ten miles drive, [155]
Tennyson’s poetry as source of epitaphs, [114]
Times, old-fashioned, [77-82];
advantages and disadvantages, [78];
were they “good”? [78]
Tiriel, blind, and Myratana, [226]
Tombs, only records of early races, [111], [112];
life and death of, [112];
various objects in, [111];
bodies found in sitting posture, [112]
Tower, a spectacular, [221]
Town-leaving, [1-17]
Tramp, a, conversations with, [31-35];
his wife, [32];
a murder, [32], [33];
on Bank-holiday, [35], [36];
at work, [36]
Tramps of various nationalities, [107];
strange sleeping-place of, [115]
Tree-worship, mild, suggestion of, [192]
Trees, [6], [16];
ancient, [42];
metamorphosis of, [124]
Valley, a quiet, [140]
Village, the, [103-117];
its ancient cottages, [105];
its church and churchyard, [104], [111];
its inns and their frequenters, [104], [106-110];
flower-gardens, [105];
its eighteenth-century vicarage, [106];
longevity of inhabitants, [113];
its roads and footpaths, [115], [116];
its archæological and historic remains, [116]
Villon, love of, song suggestive of, [208]
Walnut-tree, the, [97-99]
Watercress-man, [2];
conversation with, [11-15];
as philosopher and flower-seller, [12];
as landscape-painter, [12-13]
Water-mill, deserted, [97]
Wayfarer, the, [121]
Winter morning, a, [146]
Wood at sunrise, [44];
antiquity of, [46];
youth of, [47];
an old, beauties of, [49-51];
memories evoked by, [51];
a triangular, [139]
Woodland walk, [26], [27], [44-51]
World, still primitive, the, [143]
Worshipper, modern and ancient gods, [42], [43]
Yeoman of long ancestry, [156];
and Enid, his betrothed, [157], [160], [164]
Youth, wood of, [47]

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