RODMOOR

Books by
JOHN COWPER POWYS

The War and Culture, 1914$ .60
Visions and Revisions, Essays, 1915$2.00
Wood and Stone, A Romance, 1915$1.50
Wolf’s-bane, Rhymes, 1916$1.25
One Hundred Best Books with Commentary, 1916$ .75
Suspended Judgments, Essays, 1916$2.00

By THEODORE FRANCIS POWYS

The Soliloquy of a Hermit, 1916$1.00

Published by G. ARNOLD SHAW
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK

RODMOOR

A ROMANCE

JOHN COWPER POWYS
Author of “Wood and Stone,” etc.

O they rade on, and farther on,

And they waded rivers abune the knee,

And they saw neither sun nor moon

But they heard the roaring of the sea.

Anonymous.

1916
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK


COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY G. ARNOLD SHAW

COPYRIGHT, IN GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE COLONIES

VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK

DEDICATED
TO THE SPIRIT OF
EMILY BRONTE


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[I]The Borough[1]
[II]Dyke House[24]
[III]Sea-drift[40]
[IV]Oakguard[49]
[V]A Symposium[58]
[VI]Bridge-Head and Withy-Bed[73]
[VII]Vespers[87]
[VIII]Sun and Sea[102]
[IX]Priest and Doctor[118]
[X]Low Tide[129]
[XI]The Sisters[139]
[XII]Hamish Traherne[152]
[XIII]Departure[160]
[XIV]Brand Renshaw[175]
[XV]Broken Voices[194]
[XVI]The Fens[212]
[XVII]The Dawn[226]
[XVIII]Bank-Holiday[239]
[XIX]Listeners[264]
[XX]Ravelston Grange[282]
[XXI]The Windmill[311]
[XXII]The Northwest Wind[337]
[XXIII]Warden of the Fishes[352]
[XXIV]The Twenty-eighth of October[375]
[XXV]Baltazar Stork[409]
[XXVI]November Mist[430]
[XXVII]Threnos[447]