POEMS
——
EDWARD DOWDEN

POEMS

BY
EDWARD DOWDEN

MCMXIV. J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
LONDON AND TORONTO

CONTENTS

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The Wanderer (Sept. 1872)[1]
The Fountain (Sept. 1873)[2]
In the Galleries—
I. The Apollo Belvedere[5]
II. The Venus of Melos[5]
III. Antinous Crowned as Bacchus (Feb. 1873)[6]
IV. Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa” (Dec. 1872)[7]
V. St Luke Painting the Virgin (April 1872)[7]
On the Heights (Feb. 1872)[9]
“La Révélation par le Désert” (Feb. 1873)[13]
The Morning Star (Aug. 1873)[19]
A Child’s Noonday Sleep (Aug. 1872)[22]
In the Garden—
I. The Garden (1867)[24]
II. Visions (1866)[24]
III. An Interior[25]
IV. The Singer[26]
V. A Summer Moon (1866)[26]
VI. A Peach[27]
VII. Early Autumn[28]
VIII. Later Autumn[28]
The Heroines (1873)—
Helena[33]
Atalanta[36]
Europa[44]
Andromeda[47]
Eurydice[52]
By the Sea—
I. The Assumption (Aug. 1872)[58]
II. The Artist’s Waiting (Sept. 1872)[58]
III. Counsellors (May 1872)[59]
IV. Evening (July 1873)[60]
V. Joy (May 1872)[60]
VI. Ocean (May 1865)[61]
VII. News for London[61]
Among the Rocks (1873)[63]
To a Year (Dec. 31, 1872)[66]
A Song of the New Day (Sept. 1872)[67]
Swallows (July 1873)[68]
Memorials of Travel—
I. Coaching (1867)[70]
II. In a Mountain Pass (1867)[70]
III. The Castle (1867)[71]
IV. Άισθητιχή φαντασία[72]
V. On the Sea-cliff (1873)[72]
VI. Ascetic Nature[73]
VII. Relics[74]
VIII. On the Pier of Boulogne[74]
IX. Dover (1862)[75]
An Autumn Song (1872)[76]
Burdens (April 1872)[77]
Song[78]
By the Window (May 1872)[81]
Sunsets (June 1873)[83]
Oasis (1866)[84]
Foreign Speech (1868)[85]
In the Twilight (1873)[86]
The Inner Life—
I. A Disciple[87]
II. Theists (April 1872)[87]
III. Seeking God (1865)[88]
IV. Darwinism in Morals (April 1872)[88]
V. Awakening (1865)[89]
VI. Fishers[90]
VII. Communion (1862)[90]
VIII. A Sonnet for the Times[91]
IX. Emmausward (1867)[91]
X. A Farewell (Sept. 1872)[92]
XI. Deliverance (Oct. 1872)[93]
XII. Paradise Lost[93]
The Resting Place (Sept. 1872)[95]
New Hymns for Solitude—
I. (April 1872)[96]
II. (Oct. 1872)[96]
III. (May 1872)[97]
IV. (May 1872)[98]
V. (April 1872)[99]
VI. (April 1872)[100]
In the Cathedral Close (1876)[101]
First Love[103]
The Secret of the Universe[105]
Beau Rivage Hotel[107]
In a June Night[108]
From April to October—
I. Beauty[112]
II. Two Infinities[112]
III. The Dawn (1865)[113]
IV. The Skylark (1866)[113]
V. The Mill-race[114]
VI. In the Wood[115]
VII. The Pause of Evening (Aug. 1873)[115]
VIII. In July[116]
IX. In September[116]
X. In the Window (1865)[117]
XI. An Autumn Morning[118]
Sea Voices (May 1872)[119]
Aboard the “Sea-Swallow” (1865)[121]
Sea-sighing (1871)[122]
In the Mountains (April 1872)[123]
“The Top of a Hill called Clear” (May 1872)[126]
The Initiation (Oct. 1872)[128]
Renunciants (Nov. 1872)[130]
Speakers to God (April 1873)[131]
Poesia (Feb. 1873)[133]
Musicians (Jan. 1873)[134]
Miscellaneous Sonnets—
A Day of Defection[139]
Song and Silence[140]
Love-tokens (Nov. 1872)[141]
A Dream (Aug. 1875)[142]
Michelangelesque (Oct. 1872)[143]
Life’s Gain (Aug. 1872)[144]
Compensation[145]
To a Child Dead as soon as Born[146]
Brother Death[147]
The Mage[148]
Wise Passiveness (1865)[149]
The Singer’s Plea[150]
The Trespasser[151]
Ritualism[152]
Prometheus Unbound[153]
King Mob (1865)[154]
The Modern Elijah[155]
David and Michal (1865)[156]
Windle-straws (1872)—
I.[159]
II.[159]
III.[160]
IV.[161]
V.[161]
VI.[162]
VII.[162]
VIII.[162]