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APOLOGY v
WEATHERS 1
THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE 3
SUMMER SCHEMES 5
EPEISODIA 6
FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN 8
AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS 9
THE GARDEN SEAT 11
BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL 12
“I SOMETIMES THINK” 14
JEZREEL 15
A JOG-TROT PAIR 17
“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN” 19
“ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING” 21
“I WAS NOT HE” 22
THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL 23
WELCOME HOME 25
GOING AND STAYING 26
READ BY MOONLIGHT 27
AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD 28
A WOMAN’S FANCY 30
HER SONG 33
A WET AUGUST 35
THE DISSEMBLERS 36
TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING 37
“A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME” 38
THE STRANGE HOUSE 40
“AS ’TWERE TO-NIGHT” 42
THE CONTRETEMPS 43
A GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY 46
THE OLD GOWN 48
A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER 50
A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE 51
“WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED” 53
“AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM” 55
HAUNTING FINGERS 59
THE WOMAN I MET 63
“IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN” 67
THE TWO HOUSES 68
ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT 72
THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE 74
THE SELFSAME SONG 75
THE WANDERER 76
A WIFE COMES BACK 78
A YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATION 81
AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK 83
A BYGONE OCCASION 85
TWO SERENADES 86
THE WEDDING MORNING 89
END OF THE YEAR 1912 90
THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE’S A BUMPER!” 91
“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU” 93
AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY 95
SIDE BY SIDE 96
DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN 98
A MAIDEN’S PLEDGE 100
THE CHILD AND THE SAGE 101
MISMET 103
AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE 105
MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY 107
AN EXPERIENCE 111
THE BEAUTY 113
THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE 114
THE WOOD FIRE 117
SAYING GOOD-BYE 119
ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH 121
THE OPPORTUNITY 123
EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER 124
THE RIFT 126
VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING 127
ON THE WAY 130
“SHE DID NOT TURN” 132
GROWTH IN MAY 133
THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS 134
AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY 136
HER TEMPLE 138
A TWO-YEARS’ IDYLL 139
BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR’S END 141
PENANCE 143
“I LOOK IN HER FACE” 145
AFTER THE WAR 146
“IF YOU HAD KNOWN” 148
THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST 150
FETCHING HER 157
“COULD I BUT WILL” 159
SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE 161
AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR 163
THEY WOULD NOT COME 165
AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY 167
THE TWO WIVES 168
“I KNEW A LADY” 170
A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY 171
A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS 173
HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF 176
THE SINGING WOMAN 178
WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER 179
“O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE” 180
IN THE SMALL HOURS 181
THE LITTLE OLD TABLE 183
VAGG HOLLOW 184
THE DREAM IS—WHICH? 186
THE COUNTRY WEDDING 187
FIRST OR LAST 190
LONELY DAYS 191
“WHAT DID IT MEAN?” 194
AT THE DINNER-TABLE 196
THE MARBLE TABLET 198
THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES 199
LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND 201
A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING 204
ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN 205
THE SECOND NIGHT 207
SHE WHO SAW NOT 210
THE OLD WORKMAN 212
THE SAILOR’S MOTHER 214
OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT 216
THE PASSER-BY 218
“I WAS THE MIDMOST” 220
A SOUND IN THE NIGHT 221
ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR 226
AN OLD LIKENESS 227
HER APOTHEOSIS 229
“SACRED TO THE MEMORY” 230
TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING 231
THE WHIPPER-IN 232
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT 234
THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW 236
THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS 237
CROSS-CURRENTS 238
THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW 240
THE CHOSEN 241
THE INSCRIPTION 244
THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN 251
A WOMAN DRIVING 252
A WOMAN’S TRUST 254
BEST TIMES 256
THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE 258
INTRA SEPULCHRUM 260
THE WHITEWASHED WALL 262
JUST THE SAME 264
THE LAST TIME 265
THE SEVEN TIMES 266
THE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL 269
IN A LONDON FLAT 270
DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH 272
RAKE-HELL MUSES 273
THE COLOUR 277
MURMURS IN THE GLOOM 279
EPITAPH 281
AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS 282
AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL. 285
SURVIEW 287