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Moments of Vision 1
The Voice of Things 2
“Why be at pains?” 3
“We sat at the window” 4
Afternoon Service at Mellstock 5
At the Wicket-gate 6
In a Museum 7
Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune 8
At the Word “Farewell” 11
First Sight of Her and After 13
The Rival 14
Heredity 15
“You were the sort that men forget” 16
She, I, and They 17
Near Lanivet, 1872 18
Joys of Memory 20
To the Moon 21
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster 22
To Shakespeare 24
Quid hic agis? 27
On a Midsummer Eve 30
Timing Her 31
Before Knowledge 34
The Blinded Bird 35
“The wind blew words” 36
The Faded Face 37
The Riddle 38
The Duel 39
At Mayfair Lodgings 42
To my Father’s Violin 44
The Statue of Liberty 47
The Background and the Figure 50
The Change 51
Sitting on the Bridge 54
The Young Churchwarden 56
“I travel as a phantom now” 57
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony 58
“In the seventies” 60
The Pedigree 62
This Heart. A Woman’s Dream 65
Where they lived 68
The Occultation 69
Life laughs Onward 70
The Peace-offering 71
“Something tapped” 72
The Wound 73
A Merrymaking in Question 74
“I said and sang her excellence” 75
A January Night. 1879 77
A Kiss 78
The Announcement 79
The Oxen 80
The Tresses 81
The Photograph 82
On a Heath 84
An Anniversary 85
“By the Runic Stone” 87
The Pink Frock 88
Transformations 89
In her Precincts 90
The Last Signal 91
The House of Silence 93
Great Things 95
The Chimes 97
The Figure in the Scene 98
“Why did I sketch” 99
Conjecture 100
The Blow 101
Love the Monopolist 103
At Middle-field Gate in February 105
The Youth who carried a Light 106
The Head above the Fog 108
Overlooking the River Stour 109
The Musical Box 111
On Sturminster Foot-bridge 113
Royal Sponsors 114
Old Furniture 116
A Thought in Two Moods 118
The Last Performance 119
“You on the tower” 120
The Interloper 122
Logs on the Hearth 124
The Sunshade 126
The Ageing House 128
The Caged Goldfinch 129
At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years 130
The Ballet 132
The Five Students 133
The Wind’s Prophecy 135
During Wind and Rain 137
He prefers her Earthly 139
The Dolls 140
Molly gone 141
A Backward Spring 143
Looking Across 144
At a Seaside Town in 1869 146
The Glimpse 149
The Pedestrian 151
“Who’s in the next room?” 153
At a Country Fair 155
The Memorial Brass: 186- 156
Her Love-birds 158
Paying Calls 160
The Upper Birch-Leaves 161
“It never looks like summer” 162
Everything comes 163
The Man with a Past 164
He fears his Good Fortune 166
He wonders about Himself 167
Jubilate 168
He revisits his First School 171
“I thought, my heart” 173
Fragment 174
Midnight on the Great Western 176
Honeymoon Time at an Inn 177
The Robin 181
“I rose and went to Rou’tor town” 183
The Nettles 184
In a Waiting-room 185
The Clock-winder 187
Old Excursions 189
The Masked Face 191
In a Whispering Gallery 192
The Something that saved Him 193
The Enemy’s Portrait 195
Imaginings 197
On the Doorstep 198
Signs and Tokens 199
Paths of Former Time 201
The Clock of the Years 203
At the Piano 205
The Shadow on the Stone 206
In the Garden 208
The Tree and the Lady 209
An Upbraiding 211
The Young Glass-stainer 212
Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary 213
The Choirmaster’s Burial 215
The Man who forgot 217
While drawing in a Churchyard 219
“For Life I had never cared greatly” 221
POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM—
“Men who march away” (Song of the 225
Soldiers)
His Country 227
England to Germany in 1914 229
On the Belgian Expatriation 230
An Appeal to America on behalf of 231
the Belgian Destitute
The Pity of It 232
In Time of Wars and Tumults 233
In Time of “the Breaking of 234
nations”
Cry of the Homeless 235
Before Marching and After 237
“Often when warring” 239
Then and Now 240
A Call to National Service 242
The Dead and the Living One 243
A New Year’s Eve in War Time 246
“I met a man” 248
“I looked up from my writing” 250
FINALE—
The Coming of the End 255
Afterwards 257