The Dark Ages, and Other Poems

by L.

Transcribed from the 1908 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE DARK AGES
AND OTHER POEMS

By “L.”

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

39, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1908

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

		PAGE
I.	The Dark Ages	[1]
II.	The Bells of Venice	[4]
III.	An Ancient Church	[5]
IV.	To the English Gipsies	[6]
V.	Autumn Dying	[9]
VI.	The Departure for Cythera	[10]
VII.	The Village Church	[13]
VIII.	Lady Day near Bignor	[14]
IX.	A Cottage Inscription	[16]
X.	A Memory of Ireland	[18]
XI.	“Tír Nan Óg”	[19]
XII.	A Highland Day	[21]
XIII.	To the Firs	[23]
XIV.	Good-bye	[24]
XV.	The Fairy Glen Revisited	[26]
XVI.	Waiting	[28]
XVII.	Near Haarlem	[30]
XVIII.	The Tomb of Saint Augustine at Pavia	[31]
XIX.	Modern Florence	[32]
XX.	To Dante	[33]
XXI.	To Petrarch	[34]
XXII.	To a Lady of the Eighteenth Century	[35]
XXIII.	The “Liberal” Divine	[37]
XXIV.	The Quarrel	[38]
XXV.	The Old Fountain	[40]
XXVI.	Love and Death	[41]
XXVII.	Violets	[43]
XXVIII.	The Gardens of the Soul	[44]
XXIX.	A Man to Childish Things	[46]
XXX.	The Knight	[47]
XXXI.	Hopes	[48]
XXXII.	The Path	[50]
XXXIII.	The Call to Bethlehem	[52]
XXXIV.	A Christmas Lullaby	[53]
XXXV.	To the Holy Child	[55]
XXXVI.	Mater Amabilis	[56]
XXXVII.	Saint Stephen	[57]
XXXVIII.	Saint John at Ephesus	[59]
XXXIX.	The Little Children	[61]
XL.	The Circumcision	[63]
XLI.	The Return of the Magi	[64]
XLII.	Atonement	[66]
XLIII.	Calvary	[67]
XLIV.	“The Desert shall Blossom”	[68]
XLV.	Resurrection	[69]
XLVI.	The Ascension	[71]
XLVII.	A Hymn to the Holy Spirit	[73]
XLVIII.	“Adora et Tace”	[76]
XLIX.	The Refuge of the Wandering	[77]
L.	The Legend of St. Christopher	[79]
LI.	The Light Invisible	[81]
LII.	Onward	[83]
LIII.	The Faithful Departed	[84]
LIV.	Lethe	[86]
LV.	Ave Atque Vale	[88]