Category: Poetry
ABOUT half the verses that follow were written quite lately. The rest are older, having been held over in MS. when past volumes were published, on considering that these would contain a sufficient number of pages to offer readers at one time, more especially during the distrac...
—“I am sorry last night to have failed you here, And now I have travelled all day; And it’s long rowing back to the West-Hoe Pier, So brief must be my stay.”
4. Chapter 4A woman came into his room Between the dawn and the creeping day: She was the years-wed wife from whom He had parted, and who lived far away, As if strangers they.
6. Chapter 6Where touched the check-floored chancel My knees and his? The step looks shyly at the sun, And says, “’Twas here the thing was done, For bale or else for bliss!” Of all those th...
5. Chapter 5“Though only three were impaled, you may know it didn’t pass off So quietly as was wont? That Galilee carpenter’s son Who boasted he was king, incensed the rabble to scoff: I he...
3. Chapter 3Such said, she had paused; until she added: “Call me by his name on the stone, As I were, first to last, his dearest, Not she who left him lone!”
8. Chapter 8And so for months she replied to her Love: “No, no”; While sorrow was gnawing her beauties ever and more, Till he, long-suffering and weary, grew to show Less warmth than before.
2. Chapter 2PAGE 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...
1. Chapter 1ABOUT half the verses that follow were written quite lately. The rest are older, having been held over in MS. when past volumes were published, on considering that these would c...