F. S. FLINT

LONDON
CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD.
1916

À CELLE QUI VIT À MES CÔTÉS

CONTENTS
THE SHINING HOURS
I.[O the splendour of our joy]
II.[Although we saw this bright garden]
III.[This barbaric capital, whereon monsters writhe]
IV.[The sky has unfolded into night]
V.[Each hour I brood upon your goodness]
VI.[Sometimes you wear the kindly grace]
VII.[Oh! let the passing hand]
VIII.[As in the simple ages]
IX.[Young and kindly spring]
X.[Come with slow steps]
XI.[How readily delight is aroused in her]
XII.[At the time when I had long suffered]
XIII.[And what matters the wherefores]
XIV.[In my dreams, I sometimes pair you]
XV.[I dedicate to your tears]
XVI.[I drown my entire soul in your two eyes]
XVII.[To love with our eyes]
XVIII.[In the garden of our love]
XIX.[May your bright eyes, your eyes of summer]
XX.[Tell me, my simple and tranquil sweetheart]
XXI.[During those hours wherein we are lost]
XXII.[Oh! this happiness, sometimes so rare]
XXIII.[Let us, in our love and ardour]
XXIV.[So soon as our lips touch]
XXV.[To prevent the escape of any part of us]
XXVI.[Although autumn this evening]
XXVII.[The gift of the body when the soul is given]
XXVIII.[Was there in us one fondness]
XXIX.[The lovely garden blossoming with flames]
XXX.[If it should ever happen that]
THE HOURS OF AFTERNOON
I.[Step by step, day by day]
II.[Roses of June, you the fairest]
III.[If other flowers adorn the house]
IV.[The darkness is lustral]
V.[I bring you this evening, as an offering]
VI.[Let us both sit down on the old worm-eaten bench]
VII.[Gently, more gently still]
VIII.[In the house chosen by our love]
IX.[The pleasant task with the window open]
X.[In the depth of our love dwells all faith]
XI.[Dawn, darkness, evening, space and the stars]
XII.[This is the holy hour when the lamp is lit]
XIII.[The dead kisses of departed years]
XIV.[For fifteen years]
XV.[I thought our joy benumbed for ever]
XVI.[Everything that lives about us]
XVII.[Because you came one day]
XVIII.[On days of fresh and tranquil health]
XIX.[Out of the groves of sleep I came]
XX.[Alas! when the lead of illness]
XXI.[Our bright garden is health itself]
XXII.[It was June in the garden]
XXIII.[The gift of yourself]
XXIV.[Oh! the calm summer garden where nothing moves!]
XXV.[As with others, an hour has its ill-humour]
XXVI.[The golden barks of lovely summer]
XXVII.[Ardour of senses, ardour of hearts]
XXVIII.[The still beauty of summer evenings]
XXIX.[You said to me, one evening]
XXX.["Hours of bright morning"]
THE HOURS OF EVENING
I.[Dainty flowers, like a froth of foam]
II.[If it were true that a garden flower]
III.[The wistaria is faded and the hawthorn dead]
IV.[Draw up your chair near mine]
V.[Be once more merciful and cheering to us, light]
VI.[Alas! the days of the crimson phlox]
VII.[The evening falls, the moon is golden]
VIII.[When your hand]
IX.[And now that the lofty leaves have fallen]
X.[When the starry sky covers our dwelling]
XI.[With the same love that you were for me]
XII.[The flowers of bright welcome]
XIII.[When the fine snow with its sparkling grains]
XIV.[If fate has saved us from commonplace errors]
XV.[No, my heart has never tired of you]
XVI.[How happy we are still]
XVII.[Shall we suffer, alas! the dead weight of the years]
XVIII.[The small happenings, the thousand nothings]
XIX.[Come even to our threshold]
XX.[When our bright garden was gay]
XXI.[With my old hands lifted to your forehead]
XXII.[If our hearts have burned]
XXIII.[In this rugged winter]
XXIV.[Perhaps, when my last day comes]
XXV.[Oh! how gentle are your hands]
XXVI.[When you have closed my eyes to the light]