CONTENTS
LAST POEMS
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A VOICE FROM THE NILE 3
RICHARD FOREST'S MIDSUMMER NIGHT . . 12
INSOMNIA 31
HE HEARD HER SING 44
TO H. A. B 59
PROEM 6l
THE POET AND HIS MUSE 64
THE SLEEPER 71
MODERN PENELOPE 75
AT BELVOIR . . . . . -79
A STRANGER . . . ... .84
LAW V. GOSPEL 90
THE OLD STORY AND THE NEW STOREY . . 95
DESPOTISM TEMPERED BY DYNAMITE . . 98
ADDRESS ON THE OPENING OF THE NEW HALL OF THE LEICESTER SECULAR SOCIETY, March 6, 1881 100
EARLY POEMS—
THE DOOM OF A CITY ....
RONALD AND HELEN
SHELLEY 244
THE DEAD YEAR 259
THE DELIVERER 277
A FESTIVAL OF LIFE 286
TASSO TO LEONORA 303
A HAPPY POET 320
THE LORD OF THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE . 332
BERTRAM TO THE MOST NOBLE AND BEAUTIFUL
LADY GERALDINE 337
AN OLD DREAM 351
THE FADELESS BOWER 359
SUGGESTED BY MATTHEW ARNOLD'S "STANZAS
FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE" . . 368
FOUR POINTS IN A LIFE 381
MATER TENEBRARUM 388
A REAL VISION OF SIN 391
ARCH ARCHERY 399
THE DREAMER 403
ROBE-RT BURNS 406
THE PURPLE FLOWER OF THE HEATHER . . 408
A WINTER'S NIGHT 412
SIREN'S SONG 414
GARIBALDI REVISITING ENGLAND . . . 416
EARLY POEMS (continued}
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WITHERED LEAVES ...... 419
THE CYPRESS AND THE ROSES . . . .421
MEETING AGAIN 422
" ALLACE ! THAT SAMYN SWEIT FACE ! " . . 424
A REQUIEM 426
THE JOLLY VETERANS 427
A CAPSTAN CHORUS 429
TO A PIANISTE 431
A RECUSANT 432
A SERGEANT'S MESS SONG 433
SONNET 434
A CHANT 435
ON GEORGE HERBERT'S POEMS .... 436
ON A BROKEN PIPE 437
A PROEM 438
NOTES 439