I. PAOLO AND FRANCESCA,

II.  Young love—­

     i.  Preludes,

    ii.  Prelude—­’I make this rhyme,’

   iii.  ‘But, Song, arise thee on a greater wing,’

    iv.  Once,

     v.  The Two Daffodils,

    vi.  ‘Why did she marry him?’

   vii.  The Lamp and the Star,

  viii.  Orbits,

    ix.  Never—­Ever,

     x.  Love’s Poor,

    xi.  Comfort of Dante,

   xii.  A Lost Hour,

  xiii.  Met once more,

   xiv.  A June Lily,

    xv.  Regret

   xvi.  Love Afar

  xvii.  Canst thou be true across so many miles?

Postscript

III.  COR CORDIUM—­

To my Wife, Mildred

The Destined Maid:  a Prayer

With some old Love Verses

In a copy of Mr. Swinburne’s Tristram

Comfort at Parting

Happy Letter

Primrose and Violet

‘Juliet and her Romeo,’

In her Diary

Two Parables

A Love Letter

In the Night

The Constant Lover

The Wonder-Child

IV.  MISCELLANEOUS—­

The House of Venus

Satiety

What of the Darkness?

Ad Cimmerios

Old Love Letters

Death in a London Lodging

Time Flies

So soon Tired

Autumn

A Frost Fancy

The World is Wide

Saint Charles!

Good-Night

Beatrice

A Child’s Evensong

An Epitaph on a Goldfish

Beauty Accurst

To a Dead Friend

Sunset in the City

The City in Moonlight

V. OF POETS AND POETRY—­

Inscriptions

The Decadent to his Soul

To a Poet

The Passionate Reader to his Poet

Matthew Arnold

‘Tennyson’ at the Farm

‘The Desk’s Dry Wood,’

A Library in a Garden

On the Morals of Poets

Faery Gold

All Sung

Corydon’s Farewell to his Pipe

ENGLISH POEMS

TO THE READER

Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
And strong and holy, found a temple there: 
Now ’tis a lazar-house of leprous men. 
O shall me hear an English song again! 
Still English larks mount in the merry morn,
An English May still brings an English thorn,
Still English daisies up and down the grass,
Still English love for English lad and lass—­
Yet youngsters blush to sing an English song!