R. R.

December, 1882.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[A Star-Dream][1]
[The Daisy][3]
[“Those days are long departed”][4]
[In April][6]
[In the Woods][7]
[A Summer Song][8]
[The Burden of Autumn][10]
[“To Wonder and be Still”][11]
[An Answer][13]
[The Poet][14]
[Victory][15]
[“Ah! Wild Swans”][16]
[Day’s End][19]
[From the Roadside][20]
[A Dirge for Love][22]
[Nos Collines d’Autrefois][24]
[The Two Gates][25]
[Gettati al Vento][26]
[The Sea-King’s Grave][29]
[Disillusion][33]
[On the Border Hills][35]
[When he had finished][36]
[The Lonely Bay][37]
[Music][40]
[What holds thee back][41]
[Words for Music][42]
[Bella Donna][47]
[Joseph Bara][46]
[In Chartres Cathedral][53]
[By the Annio][55]
[By the Crucifix][58]
[“Une heure viendra qui tout paiera”][60]
[In the Alps][61]
[In Nôtre Dame de][62]
[Two Sonnets][67]
[At Lanuvium][69]
[A Roman Mirror][71]
[The Song of the Dead Child][73]
[Night at Avignon][78]
[Where the Rhone goes down to the Sea][80]
[At Tiber Mouth][82]
[Garibaldi in Rome][88]
[ἙΡΑΝ ΤΩΝ ἉΔΥΝΑΤΩΝ][89]
[Translations][92]
[Ave atque vale][96]
[“If any one return”][99]
[Hic Jacet][101]
[“When I am Dead”][103]
[St. Catharine of Egypt][105]
[Atalanta][109]
[Theoretikos][111]
[Rome]—I. [From the Hill of Gardens][114]
II. [In the Coliseum][116]
III. [In a Church][117]
[Sea-Pictures—France.]
I. [Sunset][120]
II. [Twilight][121]
III. [Storm][122]
[A Last Word][124]

A STAR-DREAM.

There was a night when you and I
Looked up from where we lay,
When we were children, and the sky
Was not so far away.

We looked towards the deep dark blue
Beyond our window bars,
And into all our dreaming drew
The spirit of the stars.

We did not see the world asleep—
We were already there!
We did not find the way so steep
To climb that starry stair.

And faint at first and fitfully,
Then sweet and shrill and near,
We heard the eternal harmony
That only angels hear;