Note ............................................................ 7
Contents ........................................................ 9
I. Two Legends .................................................. 13
Glastonbury ................................................... 13
Legend ........................................................ 21
II. First Poems ................................................. 24
Rime .......................................................... 24
To an Elzevir Cicero .......................................... 26
To a Duerer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour ........................ 27
Pure Virginia ................................................. 28
A Preface for a Tale I have never told ........................ 29
A Sonnet ...................................................... 30
"It was all in the Black Countree" ............................ 31
To a Pianist .................................................. 32
A Fragment .................................................... 33
Sea Poppies ................................................... 34
"O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind" ..................... 35
AEre Perennius ................................................ 36
The Old Kings ................................................. 37
"O there be Kings whose Treasuries" ........................... 38
A Study ....................................................... 39
The Eremite ................................................... 40
The House of Eld .............................................. 41
The South-west Wind ........................................... 42
Schumann: Erstes Verlust ...................................... 43
"Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky" ............................ 44
"Wind of the Darkness" ........................................ 45
Creator Spiritus .............................................. 46
Wind over the Sea ............................................. 47
Songs on the Downs ............................................ 48
III. Last Poems and "The Burial of Sophocles" ................... 49
"We who have bowed ourselves to Time" ......................... 49
Anglia Valida in Senectute .................................... 50
"Dark is the World our Fathers left us" ....................... 51
Awakening ..................................................... 52
Ave atque Vale ................................................ 53
"O, one came down from Seven Hills" ........................... 55
Sonnet to the British Navy .................................... 57
The Last Meeting .............................................. 58
The New Age and the Old ....................................... 59
To the Cultured ............................................... 60
Afterwards .................................................... 61
Domum redit Poeta ............................................. 62
Memories ...................................................... 63
Intercessional ................................................ 64
April 1916 .................................................... 65
"Over the Hills and Hollows Green" ............................ 66
Sonnet ........................................................ 67
"O Long the Fiends of War shall dance" ........................ 68
For R. Q. G. .................................................. 69
"Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring" .......................... 70
"Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes" ...................... 71
"Save that Poetic Fire" ....................................... 72
The Burial of Sophocles ....................................... 73
"So we lay down the Pen" ...................................... 78
_If_ there be one among the Muses nine
Loves not so much _Completion_ as _the Will_,
And less the austere saint than the fond sinner:
Loves scanty ruins, garlanded with years,
Better than lofty palaces entire:
To her I dedicate this spoiled sheaf
Of rime that scarcely came to harvesting.
There is a window here in Magdalen
Composite, methinks, of fragments that stark Mars
Has scattered. Even so my verses be
Composite of memories and half-uttered dreams
Welded together sans due ordinance,
Which might have been far other, but that Mars
Scattered and harried them with his ruthless flail.