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_Wessex Poems_”: _First Edition_, _Crown_ 8vo, 1898. _New Edition_1903._First Pocket Edition June_ 1907. _Reprinted January_ 1909, 1913 “_Poems_, _Past and Present_”: _First edition_ 1901 (dated 1902)_Second Edition_ 1903. _First Pocket Edition June_ 1907_Reprinted January_ 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919 * * * * * CONTENTS PAGEV.R. 1819–1901 231WAR POEMS—EMBARCATION 235DEPARTURE 237THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY 239THE GOING OF THE BATTERY 242AT THE WAR OFFICE 245A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY 247THE DEAD DRUMMER 249A WIFE IN LONDON 251THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN 253SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES 260THE SICK GOD 263POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE—GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN 269SHELLEY’S SKYLARK 272IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE 274ROME: ON THE PALATINE 276,, BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE 278ANCIENT QUARTER,, THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE 280,, AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS 283LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON’S OLD GARDEN 286ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN 288THE BRIDGE OF LODI 290ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED 295STATESMISCELLANEOUS POEMS—THE MOTHER MOURNS 299“I SAID TO LOVE” 305A COMMONPLACE DAY 307AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE 310THE LACKING SENSE 312TO LIFE 316DOOM AND SHE 318THE PROBLEM 321THE SUBALTERNS 323THE SLEEP-WORKER 325THE BULLFINCHES 327GOD-FORGOTTEN 329THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN 333UNKNOWING GODBY THE EARTH’S CORPSE 336MUTE OPINION 339TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD 341TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER 344ON A FINE MORNING 346TO LIZBIE BROWNE 348SONG OF HOPE 352THE WELL-BELOVED 354HER REPROACH 358THE INCONSISTENT 360A BROKEN APPOINTMENT 362“BETWEEN US NOW” 364“HOW GREAT MY GRIEF” 366“I NEED NOT GO” 367THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER 369A SPOT 371LONG PLIGHTED 373THE WIDOW 375AT A HASTY WEDDING 378THE DREAM-FOLLOWER 379HIS IMMORTALITY 380THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN 382WIVES IN THE SERE 385THE SUPERSEDED 387AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT 389THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME 391AGAINBIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL 393THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS 394WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD 395THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM 397THE DARKLING THRUSH 399THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL’HAM 402MAD JUDY 403A WASTED ILLNESS 405A MAN 408THE DAME OF ATHELHALL 412THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR 416THE MILKMAID 418THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD 420THE RUINED MAID 422THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER ON “THE 425HIGHER CRITICISM”ARCHITECTURAL MASKS 428THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE 430THE KING’S EXPERIMENT 432THE TREE: AN OLD MAN’S STORY 435HER LATE HUSBAND 439THE SELF-UNSEEING 441DE PROFUNDIS I. 443DE PROFUNDIS II. 445DE PROFUNDIS III. 448THE CHURCH-BUILDER 451THE LOST PYX: A MEDIÆVAL LEGEND 457TESS’S LAMENT 462THE SUPPLANTER: A TALE 465IMITATIONS, ETC.—SAPPHIC FRAGMENT 473CATULLUS: XXXI 474AFTER SCHILLER 476SONG: FROM HEINE 477FROM VICTOR HUGO 479CARDINAL BEMBO’S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL 480RETROSPECT—“I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES” 483MEMORY AND I 486ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι. 489 V.R. 1819–1901A REVERIE MOMENTS the mightiest pass uncalendared,And when the AbsoluteIn backward Time outgave the deedful wordWhereby all life is stirred:“Let one be born and throned whose mould shall constituteThe norm of every royal-reckoned attribute,”No mortal knew or heard.But in due days the purposed Life outshone—Serene, sagacious, free;—Her waxing seasons bloomed with deeds well done,And the world’s heart was won . . .Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to beLie hid from ours—as in the All-One’s thought lay she—Till ripening years have run. SUNDAY NIGHT,27_th_ _January_ 1901.
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