IN HOSPITAL
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I. Enter Patient 3
II. Waiting 4
III. Interior 5
IV. Before 6
V. Operation 7
VI. After 9
VII. Vigil 10
VIII. Staff-Nurse: Old Style 13
IX. Lady Probationer 14
X. Staff-Nurse: New Style 15
XI. Clinical 16
XII. Etching 19
XIII. Casualty 21
XIV. Ave, Caeser! 23
XV. ‘The Chief’ 24
XVI. House-Surgeon 25
XVII. Interlude 26
XVIII. Children: Private Ward 28
XIX. Srcubber 29
XX. Visitor 30
XXI. Romance 31
XXII. Pastoral 33
XXIII. Music 35
XXIV. Suicide 37
XXV. Apparition 39
XXVI. Anterotics 40
XXVII. Nocturn 41
XXVIII. Discharged 42
ENVOY 44
THE SONG OF THE SWORD 47
ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS 57
BRIC-À-BRAC
Ballade of the Toyokuni Colour-Print 79
Ballade of Youth and Age 81
Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights 83
Ballade of Dead Actors 85
Ballade Made in the Hot Weather 87
Ballade of Truisms 89
Double Ballade of Life and Death 91
Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things 94
At Queensferry 98
Orientale 99
In Fisherrow 100
Back-View 101
_Croquis_ 102
Attadale, West Highlands 103
From a Window in Princes Street 104
In the Dials 105
The gods are dead 106
Let us be drunk 107
When you are old 108
Beside the idle summer sea 109
The ways of Death are soothing and serene 110
We shall surely die 111
What is to come 112
ECHOES
I. To my mother 115
II. Life is bitter 117
III. O, gather me the rose 118
IV. Out of the night that covers me 119
V. I am the Reaper 120
VI. Praise the generous gods 122
VII. Fill a glass with golden wine 123
VIII. We’ll go no more a-roving 124
IX. Madam Life’s a piece in bloom 126
X. The sea is full of wandering foam 127
XI. Thick is the darkness 128
XII. To me at my fifth-floor window 129
XIII. Bring her again, O western wind 130
XIV. The wan sun westers, faint and slow 131
XV. There is a wheel inside my head 133
XVI. While the west is paling 134
XVII. The sands are alive with sunshine 135
XVIII. The nightingale has a lyre of gold 136
XIX. Your heart has trembled to my tongue 137
XX. The surges gushed and sounded 138
XXI. We flash across the level 139
XXII. The West a glimmering lake of light 140
XXIII. The skies are strown with stars 142
XXIV. The full sea rolls and thunders 143
XXV. In the year that’s come and gone 144
XXVI. In the placid summer midnight 146
XXVII. She sauntered by the swinging seas 148
XXVIII. Blithe dreams arise to greet us 149
XXIX. A child 152
XXX. Kate-A-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams 154
XXXI. O, have you blessed, behind the stars 155
XXXII. O, Falmouth is a fine town 156
XXXIII. The ways are green 158
XXXIV. Life in her creaking shoes 169
XXXV. A late lark twitters from the quiet skies 161
XXXVI. I gave my heart to a woman 163
XXXVII. Or ever the knightly years were gone 164
XXXVIII. On the way to Kew 166
XXXIX. The past was goodly once 168
XL. The spring, my dear 169
XLI. The Spirit of Wine 170
XLII. A Wink from Hesper 172
XLIII. Friends. . . old friends 173
XLIV. If it should come to be 175
XLV. From the brake the Nightingale 179
XLVI. In the waste hour 178
XLVII. Crosses and troubles 181
LONDON VOLUNTARIES
I. _Grave_ 185
II. _Andante con Moto_ 187
III. _Scherzando_ 192
IV. _Largo e Mesto_ 186
V. _Allegro Maëstoso_ 200
RHYMES AND RHYTHMS
PROLOGUE 207
I. Where forlorn sunsets flare and fade 209
II. We are the Choice of the Will 211
III. A desolate shore 214
IV. It came with the threat of a waning moon 216
V. Why, my heart, do we love her so? 217
VI. One with the ruined sunset 218
VII. There’s a regret 219
VIII. Time and the Earth 221
IX. As like the Woman as you can 223
X. Midsummer midnight skies 225
XI. Gulls in an aery morrice 227
XII. Some starlit garden grey with dew 228
XIII. Under a stagnant sky 229
XIV. Fresh from his fastnesses 231
XV. You played and sang a snatch of song 233
XVI. Space and dread and the dark 234
XVII. Tree, Old Tree of the Triple Crook 236
XVIII. When you wake in your crib 239
XIX. O, Time and Change 242
XX. The shadow of Dawn 243
XXI. When the wind storms by with a shout 244
XXII. Trees and the menace of night 245
XXIII. Here they trysted, here they strayed 247
XXIV. Not to the staring Day 249
XXV. What have I done for you 251
EPILOGUE 256