Contents
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I "Oh, if this Universe" . . . . 1
II "Not once, but often" . . . . 2
III "0 sleep, sweet sleep" . . . 3
IV Time . . . . . . 5
V "Now summer's foliage" . . . 6
VI The Dead . . . . . 7
VII "0 God, for Truth" . . . . 8
VIII Virgil, Eclogue IV. 1-12 . . . . 9
IX "Flanders is filled" . . . . . 10
X "But on the rarer uplands" . . . . 11
XI "We weep for our own loss" . . . . 11
XII In Memoriam . . . . . 11
XIII "The ways of thought are barren" . . . 12
XIV "The old, the bitter, everlasting Why" . . . 13
XV Horace, Odes f. 24 . . . . . 14
XVI The Storm . . . . . . 16
XVII Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey . . . 17
XVIII "Hail to the Past!" . . . . . . 18
XIX "A little shadow on a summer's day" . . . . 19
XX Avalon . . . . . . . . 20
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XXI "I have not lived in vain" . . . . 22
XXII Weariness . . . . . . 23
XXIII Metre from "Shropshire Lad" . . . 25
XXIV "The Lord of all is hid" . . . . 27
XXV "From Salisbury's windswept plain" . . 32
XXVI "The truth of God is known" . . . 34
XXVII War . . . . . 39
XXVIII Sunset . . . . . . 40
XXIX "Ay, here we are". . . . . 41
XXX "It is a thought" . . . . . 55
XXXI Friendship . . . . . 56
XXXII "The soil of the land is holy" . . . 57
XXXIII Nightfall . . . . . 58
XXXIV "As one that stands" . . . . . 59
XXXV Eheu fugaces . . . . 60
XXXVI "The sunset clouds" . . . . 62
XXXVII "The wind that blustered" . . . . 63
XXXVIII Laudabunt alii . . . . 65
XXXIX "Changeful with glow" . . . . . 71
XL "For them, the bitterness of death" . . . 72
XLI "In that rough barn we knelt" . . . 74
XLII On a picture in Rome . . . . . 75
XLIII "The breath of God" . . . . . 76
XLIV "Some seek, as on a highway plain" . . . 79
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XLV On a Sonnet of Rupert Brooke . . . . 82
XLVI "Revealer of the secret things" . . . 84
XLVII "When sweetest Orpheus" . . . 85
LVIII "---" . . . . . . 87
XLIX "I saw them laughing once" . . . 92
L Peace . . . . . 93
LI In Memoriam (J. N. E.) . . . . . 94
LII "Six things I hate and scorn" . . . . 96
LIII Elegy. . . . . . . 98
LIV Christmas, 1917 . . . . .105
LV Salisbury Cathedral . . . . .106
LVI England (two Sonnets) . . . .107
LVII Hereford . . . . .109
LVIII Heredity . . . . .110
LIX "Here's to the glory of life" . . . .113
LX The Poets. . . . . .116
LXI "We gaze upon the apple-flower" . . .117
LXIII The Old Priest . . . . . .118
LXIII On the Russian Peace . . . .125
LXIV "I had a vision of the deeps" . . . .126
LXV Translation (Horace, Odes III. 16) . . .127
LXVI The Burial of Arthur . . . .130
LXVII Proficiscenti (two Sonnets) . . . .137
LXVIII Return (two Sonnets) . . . .139
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LXIX Easter Even . . . . . .141
LXX "Through all the ages" . . . . .143
LXXI The Stepmother . . . . .146
LXXII "A man once sinned a sin" . . . .148
LXXIII Lincoln Minster . . . .15I
LXXIV Immortality . . . . . .152
LXXV Uti conviva satur . . . . .153
LXXVI In cruce regnans . . . . .154
LXXVII The Ascetic . . . . .155
LXXVIII "As one who wanders" . . . .156
LXXIX "And if a bullet" . . . . .157
LXXX Wells Cathedral . . . .158
LXXXI "Had some wise seer foretold" . . .159
LXXXII " Hast thou beheld a night" . . .160
LXXXIII Hope . . . . . .161
LXXXIV Faith . . . . . .162
LXXXV "When the last long trek is over" . . .163
Arthurian Romance . . . . .165
A Biblical Play . . . . .205
The Fall of Carthage. A tragedy . . . .235
