CONTENTS

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The Brook along the Romsey Road[ 3]
The Poet and the Wood-louse[ 5]
“Jam Hiems Transiit”[ 7]
“Vox Clamantis”[ 8]
Sorrow[ 9]
The Mulberry[10]
The Window-sill[11]
The Angelus-bell[12]
The Apple-man from Awbridge[13]
Of Dulcibel[15]
The Lady Pheasant[16]
Time’s Tyranness[17]
The Ginger Cat[19]
Μονοχρόνος Ἡδόνη[21]
A Song in a Lane[22]
Cries of London[23]
The Third Birthday[25]
One-eyed Jocko[26]
A Suburban Night’s Entertainment[27]
“A Purpose of Amendment”[30]
Helena to Hermia[31]
“Effany”[32]
The Ark[34]
An Upland Station[36]
The Worshippers[38]
Lines to a Journalist, on his Praising a Noble Lord
 Recently Created[39]
The Belgian Pinafore[41]
The Wind[43]
To Betsey-Jane, on her Desiring to go
 incontinently to Heaven[45]
In Bethlehem Town[46]
The Moon[48]
A Lady of Fashion on the Death of her Dog[49]
To a Little Girl[51]
Lines written for D. E. in a copy of
 “The Child’s Garden of Verses”[52]
Epistle to Thomas Black, Cat to the Soane Museum[53]
For My Mother, with a New Button-box[56]
A Child before the Crib[57]
To Mass at Dawn[59]
The Nuns’ Chapel[60]
The Snare[61]
A House in a Wood[63]
The Confessional[65]
Epitaph on a Child, run over and Killed by
 a Motor-car in the street[67]
The Water-meads of Mottisfont[70]
The Senior Mistress of Blyth[72]
The First Party[75]
Souvenir of Michael Drayton[77]
“Four-paws”[79]
“Four-paws” in London[81]
To my Sister Dorothy, with a Paste Brooch[83]
Sestina, to D. E.[84]
Lullaby for a Little Girl[86]
Rondeau of Sarum Close[87]
The Knobby-green[88]
The Carcanet[89]
To a Town Crier[90]
The Tale of Jocko, a Story for a Child[91]
The Wag-tail[98]
High Tide at Battersea[100]
To my Daughter, who tells me she can Dress Herself[101]
The Baby Goat[103]
Bournemouth to Poole:
 (1) Bournemouth[105]
 (2) Poole Harbour[105]
The Japanese Duckling[107]
The Privet Hedge[108]
The Vegetarian’s Daughter[109]
Honey Meadow[110]
An Elegy, for Father Anselm, of the Order of Reformed
 Cistercians, Guest-master and Parish Priest[112]
The Regret[117]
First Snow[118]
To a Child Returning Home upon a Windy Day[119]
The Death of Sir Matho[120]
The Petals[124]
Post-Communion[126]
Index to First Lines[127]



THE BROOK ALONG THE
ROMSEY ROAD