CONTENTS

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Introduction[xi]
To Dives[1]
Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge During
a South-Westerly Gale		[4]
The South Country[7]
The Fanatic[10]
Noël[14]
The Early Morning[16]
The Birds[17]
Our Lord and Our Lady[18]
In a Boat[20]
Courtesy[22]
The Night[24]
The Leader[25]
A Bivouac[27]
To the Balliol Men Still in Africa[28]
Verses to a Lord Who, in the House of Lords,
Said That Those Who Opposed the South
African Adventure Confused Soldiers with
Money-Grubbers		[30]
The Rebel[32]
The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening[34]
Song, Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady
upon the Opening Year		[36]
The Ring[37]
Cuckoo[38]
The Mirror[39]
The Little Serving Maid[40]
The End of the Road[43]
Auvergnat[45]
Drinking Song, on the Excellence of
Burgundy Wine		[46]
Drinking Dirge[48]
West Sussex Drinking Song[50]
A Ballad on Sociological Economics[52]
An Oracle That Warned the Writer When
on Pilgrimage		[54]
Heretics All[55]
The Death and Last Confession of Wandering
Peter		[56]
Dedicatory Ode[58]
Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child[66]
Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary
Tales		[67]
Homage[68]
Fille-la-Haine[69]
The Moon’s Funeral[70]
The Happy Journalist[72]
Lines to a Don[74]
Newdigate Poem[77]
The Yellow Mustard[82]
On Hygiene[83]
The False Heart[84]
Sonnet upon God the Wine-Giver[85]
The Politician or the Irish Earldom[86]
Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols[89]