VOLUME VII in preparation

*** This Volume completes the Uniform Edition of Mr. Robert Bridges' Works.

LONDON: SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT BRIDGES

EXCLUDING THE EIGHT DRAMAS

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

1912

OXFORD: HORACE HART

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

NOTE

This book consists of the Poems and Masks (as apart from the Dramas) contained in the collected editions of the Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, together with two groups of Later Poems and Poems in Classical Prosody now published for the first time or now first collected.

A record of the previous publication of the poems will be found in the bibliographical notes prefixed to the various sections of the present book.

The spelling of certain words is not uniform throughout the poems. This is due to observance of the text of the earlier editions of different dates, in the notes to which the author's justification of these peculiarities was given.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PROMETHEUS THE FIREGIVER. A Mask in the Greek Manner 1

DEMETER. A Mask 49

EROS AND PSYCHE 87

THE GROWTH OF LOVE 185

SHORTER POEMS.