Chapter II: Book I: In English

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I. ENVOY—Go, little book 1
II. A SONG OF THE ROAD—The gauger walked 2
III. THE CANOE SPEAKS—On the great streams 4
IV. It is the season 7
V. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL—A naked house, a naked 9
moor
VI. A VISIT FROM THE SEA—Far from the loud sea 12
beaches
VII. TO A GARDENER—Friend, in my mountain-side 14
demesne
VIII. TO MINNIE—A picture frame for you to fill 16
IX. TO K. DE M.—A lover of the moorland bare 17
X. TO N. V. DE G. S.—The unfathomable sea 19
XI. TO WILL. H. LOW—Youth now flees 21
XII. TO MRS. WILL. H. LOW—Even in the bluest 24
noonday of July
XIII. TO H. F. BROWN—I sit and wait 26
XIV. TO ANDREW LANG—Dear Andrew 29
XV. ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI—In ancient tales, 31
O friend
XVI. TO W. E. HENLEY—The year runs through her 36
phases
XVII. HENRY JAMES—Who comes to-night 38
XVIII. THE MIRROR SPEAKS—Where the bells 39
XIX. KATHARINE—We see you as we see a face 41
XX. TO F. J. S.—I read, dear friend 42
XXI. REQUIEM—Under the wide and starry sky 43
XXII. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON—If I have faltered 44
XXIII. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS—Out of the sun 45
XXIV. Not yet, my soul 50
XXV. It is not yours, O mother, to complain 53
XXVI. THE SICK CHILD—O mother, lay your hand on 56
my brow
XXVII. IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.—Yet, O stricken heart 58
XXVIII. TO MY FATHER—Peace and her huge invasion 60
XXIX. IN THE STATES—With half a heart 62
XXX. A PORTRAIT—I am a kind of farthing dip 63
XXXI. Sing clearlier, Muse 65
XXXII. A CAMP—The bed was made 66
XXXIII. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS—We travelled 67
in the print of olden wars
XXXIV. SKERRYVORE—For love of lovely words 68
XXXV. SKERRYVORE: THE PARALLEL—Here all is sunny 69
XXXVI. My house, I say 70
XXXVII. My body which my dungeon is 71
XXXVIII. Say not of me that weakly I declined 73