Chapter II: Book III: Poems and Phantasies

A TRIPTYCH:
First Panel: The Hill 140
II. Second and Centre Panel: The Tower 146
III. Third Panel: The Tree 150

FOUR SONGS FROM "THE PRINCE OF ORMUZ":
I. The Prince of Ormuz sings to Badoura 154
II. The Song of the Princess Beside the Fountain 155
III. The Song of the Prince in Disguise 156
IV. The Princess Badoura's Last Song to her Lover 157

THE GIFT OF SONG 160

FRAGMENTS FROM "ORESTES":
I. Warning Unheeded 164
II. Orestes to the Furies 167

BLACK SONGS:
I. At Braydon 170
II. Midday on the Edge of the Downs 172
III. In Dorsetshire 173

MAN'S ANACREONTIC 176

THE BLACKBIRD 179

CHANGE 180

TRANSFIGURATION 181

PLAINT OF PIERROT ILL-USED 183

GIRL'S SONG FROM "THE TAILOR" 188

LAST SONG IN AN OPERA 190

DANAE: MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS 191

THE ECSTASY 199

THE WATER-LILY 201

DEEM YOU THE ROSES 202

THE PASSION 203

LAST WORDS 206

My thanks are due to the editor of the _Times_ and of the _Nation_, to the editors of the _Palatine Review_, and to Messrs. Blackwell, Oxford, the publishers of "Oxford Poetry, 1915," and "Oxford Poetry, 1916," for permission to reprint certain of these poems.

R. M. B. N.
1917.