BOOK I.

I. Saint valentine’s day
II.  Wind and wave
III.  Winter
IV.  Beata
V. The day after to-morrow
VI.  Tristitia
VII.  The azalea
VIII.  Departure
IX.  Eurydice
X. The toys
XI.  Tired memory
XII.  Magna EST VERITAS
XIII. 1867
XIV.  ‘If I were dead’
XV.  Peace
XVI.  A farewell
XVII. 1880-85. 
XVIII.  The two deserts
XIX.  Crest and gulf
XX.  ‘Let be!’
XXI.  ‘Faint yet pursuing’
XXII.  Victory in defeat
XVIII.  Remembered grace
XXIV.  VESICA Piscis

BOOK II.

I. To the unknown Eros
II.  The contract
III.  Arbor vitae
IV.  The standards
V. SPONSA DEI
VI.  LEGEM TUAM DILEXI
VII.  To the body
VIII.  ‘Sing us one of the songs of sion’
IX.  Deliciae SAPIENTIAE de Amore
X. The cry at midnight
XI.  Auras of delight
XII.  Eros and psyche
XIII.  De Natura DEORUM
XIV.  Psyche’s discontent
XV.  Pain
XVI.  Prophets who cannot sing
XVII.  The child’s Purchase
XVIII.  Dead language

AMELIA, ETC.

Amelia
L’ALLEGRO
Regina COELI
the open secret
Venus and death
MIGNONNE
Alexander and Lycon
semele

THE UNKNOWN EROS

   “Deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum.” 
   PROV.  VIII. 31.

PROEM.

’Many speak wisely, some inerrably: 
Witness the beast who talk’d that should have bray’d,
And Caiaphas that said
Expedient ’twas for all that One should die;
But what avails
When Love’s right accent from their wisdom fails,
And the Truth-criers know not what they cry! 
Say, wherefore thou,
As under bondage of some bitter vow,
Warblest no word,
When all the rest are shouting to be heard? 
Why leave the fervid running just when Fame
’Gan whispering of thy name
Amongst the hard-pleased Judges of the Course? 
Parch’d is thy crystal-flowing source?