Chapter VI: Book V: was printed by Mr. Daniel in 1893 and published

contemporaneously with an American edition, according to the requirements of the international copyright law. In passing the proofs of this edition I have altered the first line of No. 10: which being actually descriptive of a robin’s song, now appears as such. It was first printed ’Pink-throated linnet.’ I have also written ’and’ for ’or’ in two lines of V. 17, and amended I. 5.

1894.

NOTE TO PRESENT VOLUME

In revising my ’shorter poems’ for this edition I have corrected a few misprints which seem to have run through the earlier editions; and, though I have refrained from the vanity of trying to improve old work which has been so often printed, I have amended one or two lines which seemed peculiarly bad. I hope that the ’new poems’ which I have gathered to fill this second volume up to the size of the first, may be found in some respects better than the old. Eclogues 2 and 3 have already appeared in the _Cornhill Magazine_, and the poems numbered severally 6, 14, 15 and 21, in Mr. Elkin Mathews’ _Shilling Garland_, No. II. 1896. The rest are printed here for the first time: they are of various dates, some of them were written this year for this volume.

R. B., Sept. 1899.

INDEX

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

PAGE
A cottage built of native stone 272

Again with pleasant green 61

All women born 40

An effigy of brass 262

Angel spirits of sleep 145

A poppy grows upon the shore 26

Ariel, O,—my angel, my own 165

A song of my heart 191

Assemble, all ye maidens 34

Awake, my heart, to be loved 113

A winter’s night with the snow about 101

Beautiful must be the mountains 189

Because thou canst not see 93

Behold! the radiant Spring 66

Beneath the wattled bank 223

Betwixt two billows 169

Bright, my belovèd, be thy day 287

Christ and his Mother 194

Clear and gentle stream 9

Cold is the winter day 183

Crown Winter with green 160

Dear lady, when thou frownest 22

Fire of heaven, whose starry arrow 143

Flame-throated robin 185

Gay Robin is seen no more 131

Hark! the world is full 289

Hark to the merry birds 128

Haste on, my joys 95

His poisoned shafts 38

How well my eyes 227

I climb the mossy bank 237

I found to-day out walking 25

I have loved flowers that fade 80

I have sown upon the fields 267

I heard a linnet courting 20

I know not how I came 50

I love all beauteous things 123

I love my lady’s eyes 115

I made another song 32

I never shall love the snow again 187

In the golden glade 201

In this May-month 181

I praise the tender flower 99

I saw the Virgin-mother 48

I stand on the cliff 89

I will not let thee go 23

I wish’d to sing thy grace 258

Joy, sweetest lifeborn joy 108

Let praise devote thy work 160

Let us, as by this verdant bank 57

Long are the hours the sun is above 28

Look down the river 218

Look! look! the spring is come 203

Love not too much 172

Love on my heart from heaven fell 137

Man hath with man 211

My bed and pillow are cold 103

My delight and thy delight 241

My eyes for beauty pine 134

My spirit kisseth thine 163

My spirit sang all day 124

Now all the windows 243

Now thin mists temper 175

O bold majestic downs 59

O golden Sun, whose ray 77

O Love, I complain 232

O Love, my muse 135

O my vague desires 85

O thou unfaithful 104

O youth whose hope is high 119

Perfect little body 91

Poor withered rose 14

Riding adown the country lanes 247

Sad, sombre place 71

Say who is this with silvered hair 158

See, whirling snow 180

Sense with keenest edge unusèd 249

Since thou, O fondest and truest 117

Since to be loved endures 174

Since we loved 256

Sometimes when my lady sits by me 27

So sweet love seemed 178

Spirit of grace and beauty 265

Spring goeth all in white 133

The birds that sing on autumn eves 150

The cliff-top has a carpet 16

The clouds have left the sky 127

The day begins to droop 254

The evening darkens over 118

The full moon from her cloudless skies 112

The green corn waving in the dale 139

The hill pines were sighing 138

The idle life I lead 144

The lonely season 251

The north wind came up 198

The pinks along my garden walks 142

The saddest place 275

The south wind rose 234

There is a hill 53

There was no lad handsomer 205

The sea keeps not 245

The snow lies sprinkled on the beach 161

The storm is over 154

The summer trees are tempest-torn 149

The upper skies are palest blue 126

The wood is bare 12

Thou didst delight my eyes 106

To my love I whisper 239

Voyaging northwards 282

Wanton with long delay 130

Weep not to-day 207

We left the city when the summer day 96

What is sweeter than new-mown hay 147

What voice of gladness 179

When Death to either shall come 257

When first we met 39

When June is come 141

When men were all asleep 87

When my love was away 152

Wherefore to-night so full of care 75

Whither, O splendid ship 46

Who has not walked upon the shore 30

Why art thou sad 259

Why hast thou nothing 260

Will Love again awake 43

Ye thrilled me once 157

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation, spelling, accents and punctuation remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.

Italics are represented thus _italic_.

There are many small decorative illustrations within the book. These have not been indicated