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BALLADE DEDICATORY vii
THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS 3
THE NEW MILLENIUM 13
ALMAE MATRES 23
DESIDERIUM 27
RHYMES A LA MODE 29
Ballade of Middle Age 31
The Last Cast 33
Twilight 37
Ballade of Summer 39
Ballade of Christmas Ghosts 41
Love’s Easter 42
Ballade of the Girton Girl 43
Ronsard’s Grave 45
San Terenzo 48
Romance 50
Ballade of his own Country 52
Villanelle 55
Triolets after Moschus 57
Ballade of Cricket 59
The Last Maying 61
Homeric Unity 65
In Tintagel 66
Pisidicê 68
From the East to the West 71
Love the Vampire 72
Ballade of the Book-man’s Paradise 74
Ballade of a Friar 76
Ballade of Neglected Merit 78
Ballade of Railway Novels 80
The Cloud Chorus 82
Ballade of Literary Fame 85
Νήνεμος Αἰών 87
ART 89
A very woful Ballade of the Art Critic 91
Art’s Martyr 94
The Palace of Bric-à-brac 97
Rondeaux of the Galleries 100
SCIENCE 103
The Barbarous Bird-Gods 105
Man and the Ascidian 110
Ballade of the Primitive Jest 113
CAMEOS 115
Cameos 117
Helen on the walls 118
The Isles of the Blessed 119
Death 121
Nysa 122
Colonus (I.) 123
,, (II.) 124
The Passing of Œdipous 125
The Taming of Tyro 126
To Artemis 127
Criticism of Life 128
Amaryllis 129
The Cannibal Zeus 130
Invocation of Isis 132
The Coming of Isis 133
THE SPINET 134
NOTES 135
_BALLADE DEDICATORY_.
_TO_
_MRS. ELTON_
_OF WHITE STAUNTON_.
_THE painted Briton built his mound_,
_And left his celts and clay_,
_On yon fair slope of sunlit ground_
_That fronts your garden gay_;
_The Roman came_, _he bore the sway_,
_He bullied_, _bought_, _and sold_,
_Your fountain sweeps his works away_
_Beside your manor old_!
_But still his crumbling urns are found_
_Within the window-bay_,
_Where once he listened to the sound_
_That lulls you day by day_;—
_The sound of summer winds at play_,
_The noise of waters cold_
_To Yarty wandering on their way_,
_Beside your manor old_!
_The Roman fell_: _his firm-set bound_
_Became the Saxon’s stay_;
_The bells made music all around_
_For monks in cloisters grey_,
_Till fled the monks in disarray_
_From their warm chantry’s fold_,
_Old Abbots slumber as they may_,
_Beside your manor old_!
_ENVOY_.
_Creeds_, _empires_, _peoples_, _all decay_,
_Down into darkness_, _rolled_;
_May life that’s fleet be sweet_, _I pray_,
_Beside your manor old_.