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A STAVE OF ROVING TIM, 1
The wind is East, the wind is West,
JUMP-TO-GLORY JANE, 5
A revelation came on Jane,
THE RIDDLE FOR MEN, 14
This Riddle rede or die,
THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY, 15
One fairest of the ripe unwedded left
‘LOVE IS WINGED FOR TWO,’ 30
‘ASK, IS LOVE DIVINE,’ 30
‘JOY IS FLEET,’ 31
THE LESSON OF GRIEF, 31
Not ere the bitter herb we taste,
WIND ON THE LYRE, 32
That was the chirp of Ariel
THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, 33
His Lady queen of woods to meet,
THE EMPTY PURSE, 34
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,
TO THE COMIC SPIRIT, 56
Sword of Common Sense!—
YOUTH IN MEMORY, 68
Days, when the ball of our vision
PENETRATION AND TRUST, 75
Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone,
NIGHT OF FROST IN MAY, 76
With splendour of a silver day,
THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, 79
A Satyr spied a Goddess in her bath,
BREATH OF THE BRIAR, 81
O briar-scents, on yon wet wing
EMPEDOCLES, 82
He leaped. With none to hinder,
ENGLAND BEFORE THE STORM, 83
The day that is the night of days,
TARDY SPRING, 85
Now the North wind ceases,
THE LABOURER, 87
For a Heracles in his fighting ire there is never the
glory that follows
FORESIGHT AND PATIENCE, 89
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,
THE WARNING, 99
We have seen mighty men ballooning high,
OUTSIDE THE CROWD, 99
To sit on History in an easy chair,
TRAFALGAR DAY, 100
He leads: we hear our Seaman’s call
Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History
THE REVOLUTION, 105
Not yet had History’s Aetna smoked the skies,
NAPOLÉON, 116
Cannon his name,
FRANCE, 140
We look for her that sunlike stood
ALSACE-LORRAINE, 150
The sister Hours in circles linked,
THE CAGEING OF ARES, 170
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughed
THE NIGHT-WALK, 175
Awakes for me and leaps from shroud
AT THE CLOSE, 178
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal,
A GARDEN IDYL, 179
With sagest craft Arachne worked
A Reading of Life
THE VITAL CHOICE, 185
Or shall we run with Artemis
WITH THE HUNTRESS, 186
Through the water-eye of night,
WITH THE PERSUADER, 189
Who murmurs, hither, hither: who
THE TEST OF MANHOOD, 200
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,
THE HUELESS LOVE, 208
Unto that love must we through fire attain,
UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, 209
Sunset worn to its last vermilion he;
SONG IN THE SONGLESS, 210
They have no song, the sedges dry,
THE BURDEN OF STRENGTH, 210
If that thou hast the gift of strength, then know
THE MAIN REGRET, 211
Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of
omission
ALTERNATION, 211
Between the fountain and the rill
FOREST HISTORY, 212
Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.
Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse
THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES, 221
‘Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how
can one,
‘Bibber besotted, with scowl of a cur, having heart of a
deer, thou!
MARSHALLING OF THE ACHAIANS, 225
Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous,
AGAMEMNON IN THE FIGHT, 227
These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now
clashing the thickest,
PARIS AND DIOMEDES, 228
So he, with a clear shout of laughter,
HYPNOS ON IDA, 230
They then to fountain-abundant Ida, mother of wild
beasts,
CLASH IN ARMS OF THE ACHAIANS AND TROJANS, 231
Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon
shingle,
THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, 232
So now the horses of Aiakides, off wide of the
war-ground,
THE MARES OF THE CAMARGUE, 234
A hundred mares, all white! their manes
‘ATKINS’, 236
Yonder’s the man with his life in his hand,
THE VOYAGE OF THE ‘OPHIR’, 237
Men of our race, we send you one
THE CRISIS, 239
Spirit of Russia, now has come
OCTOBER 21, 1905, 241
The hundred years have passed, and he
THE CENTENARY OF GARIBALDI, 243
We who have seen Italia in the throes,
THE WILD ROSE, 245
High climbs June’s wild rose,
THE CALL, 247
Under what spell are we debased
ON COMO, 250
A rainless darkness drew o’er the lake
MILTON, 251
What splendour of imperial station man,
IRELAND, 253
Fire in her ashes Ireland feels
THE YEARS HAD WORN THEIR SEASONS’ BELT, 255
The years had worn their seasons’ belt,
FRAGMENTS, 257
Open horizons round,