February 1922.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Apology [v]
Weathers [1]
The maid of Keinton Mandeville [3]
Summer Schemes [5]
Epeisodia [6]
Faintheart in a Railway Train [8]
At Moonrise and Onwards [9]
The Garden Seat [11]
Barthélémon at Vauxhall [12]
“I sometimes think” [14]
Jezreel [15]
A Jog-trot Pair [17]
“The Curtains now are drawn” [19]
“According to the Mighty Working” [21]
“I was not He” [22]
The West-of-Wessex Girl [23]
Welcome Home [25]
Going and Staying [26]
Read by Moonlight [27]
At a house in Hampstead [28]
A Woman’s Fancy [30]
Her Song [33]
A Wet August [35]
The Dissemblers [36]
To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning [37]
“A Man was drawing near to me” [38]
The Strange House [40]
“As ’twere To-night” [42]
The Contretemps [43]
A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady [46]
The Old Gown [48]
A Night in November [50]
A Duettist to her Pianoforte [51]
“Where Three Roads joined” [53]
“And There was a Great Calm” [55]
Haunting Fingers [59]
The Woman I Met [63]
“If it’s ever Spring again” [67]
The Two Houses [68]
On Stinsford Hill at Midnight [72]
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House [74]
The Selfsame Song [75]
The Wanderer [76]
A Wife comes back [78]
A Young Man’s Exhortation [81]
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back [83]
A Bygone Occasion [85]
Two Serenades [86]
The Wedding Morning [89]
End of the Year 1912 [90]
The Chimes play “Life’s a Bumper!” [91]
“I worked no Wile to meet You” [93]
At the Railway Station, Upway [95]
Side by Side [96]
Dream of the City Shopwoman [98]
A Maiden’s Pledge [100]
The Child and the Sage [101]
Mismet [103]
An Autumn Rain-scene [105]
Meditations on a Holiday [107]
An Experience [111]
The Beauty [113]
The Collector cleans his Picture [114]
The Wood Fire [117]
Saying Good-bye [119]
On the Tune called The Old-hundred-and-fourth [121]
The Opportunity [123]
Evelyn G. of Christminster [124]
The Rift [126]
Voices from Things growing [127]
On the Way [130]
“She did not turn” [132]
Growth in May [133]
The Children and Sir Nameless [134]
At the Royal Academy [136]
Her Temple [138]
A Two-years’ Idyll [139]
By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End [141]
Penance [143]
“I look in her Face” [145]
After the War [146]
“If you had known” [148]
The Chapel-Organist [150]
Fetching Her [157]
“Could I but will” [159]
She revisits alone the Church of her Marriage [161]
At the Entering of the New Year [163]
They would not come [165]
After a Romantic Day [167]
The Two Wives [168]
“I knew a Lady” [170]
A House with a History [171]
A Procession of Dead Days [173]
He follows Himself [176]
The Singing Woman [178]
Without, not within Her [179]
“O I won’t lead a Homely Life” [180]
In the Small Hours [181]
The Little Old Table [183]
Vagg Hollow [184]
The Dream is—which? [186]
The Country Wedding [187]
First or Last [190]
Lonely Days [191]
“What did it mean?” [194]
At the Dinner-table [196]
The Marble Tablet [198]
The Master and the Leaves [199]
Last Words to a Dumb Friend [201]
A Drizzling Easter morning [204]
On One who lived and died where He was born [205]
The Second Night [207]
She who saw not [210]
The Old Workman [212]
The Sailor’s Mother [214]
Outside the Casement [216]
The Passer-by [218]
“I was the Midmost” [220]
A Sound in the Night [221]
On a Discovered Curl of Hair [226]
An Old Likeness [227]
Her Apotheosis [229]
“Sacred to the Memory” [230]
To a Well-named Dwelling [231]
The Whipper-in [232]
A Military Appointment [234]
The Milestone by the Rabbit-burrow [236]
The Lament of the Looking-glass [237]
Cross-currents [238]
The Old Neighbour and the New [240]
The Chosen [241]
The Inscription [244]
The Marble-streeted Town [251]
A Woman driving [252]
A Woman’s Trust [254]
Best Times [256]
The Casual Acquaintance [258]
Intra Sepulchrum [260]
The Whitewashed Wall [262]
Just the Same [264]
The Last Time [265]
The Seven Times [266]
The Sun’s Last Look on the Country Girl [269]
In a London Flat [270]
Drawing Details in an Old Church [272]
Rake-hell muses [273]
The Colour [277]
Murmurs in the Gloom [279]
Epitaph [281]
An Ancient to Ancients [282]
After reading psalms xxxix., xl. [285]
Surview [287]

WEATHERS

I

This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly:
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,
And they sit outside at “The Travellers’ Rest,”
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
And citizens dream of the south and west,
And so do I.

II

This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh, and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate-bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.

THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE
(A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)

I hear that maiden still
Of Keinton Mandeville
Singing, in flights that played
As wind-wafts through us all,
Till they made our mood a thrall
To their aery rise and fall,
“Should he upbraid.”