Chapter 1

PAGE I. ENVOY—Go, little book 1 II. A SONG OF THE ROAD—The gauger walked 2 III. THE CANOE SPEAKS—On the great streams 4 IV. It is the season 7 V. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL—A naked house, a naked 9 moor VI. A VISIT FROM THE SEA—Far from the loud sea 12 beaches VII. TO A GARDENER—Friend, in my mountain-side 14 demesne VIII. TO MINNIE—A picture frame for you to fill 16 IX. TO K. DE M.—A lover of the moorland bare 17 X. TO N. V. DE G. S.—The unfathomable sea 19 XI. TO WILL. H. LOW—Youth now flees 21 XII. TO MRS. WILL. H. LOW—Even in the bluest 24 noonday of July XIII. TO H. F. BROWN—I sit and wait 26 XIV. TO ANDREW LANG—Dear Andrew 29 XV. ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI—In ancient tales, 31 O friend XVI. TO W. E. HENLEY—The year runs through her 36 phases XVII. HENRY JAMES—Who comes to-night 38 XVIII. THE MIRROR SPEAKS—Where the bells 39 XIX. KATHARINE—We see you as we see a face 41 XX. TO F. J. S.—I read, dear friend 42 XXI. REQUIEM—Under the wide and starry sky 43 XXII. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON—If I have faltered 44 XXIII. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS—Out of the sun 45 XXIV. Not yet, my soul 50 XXV. It is not yours, O mother, to complain 53 XXVI. THE SICK CHILD—O mother, lay your hand on 56 my brow XXVII. IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.—Yet, O stricken heart 58 XXVIII. TO MY FATHER—Peace and her huge invasion 60 XXIX. IN THE STATES—With half a heart 62 XXX. A PORTRAIT—I am a kind of farthing dip 63 XXXI. Sing clearlier, Muse 65 XXXII. A CAMP—The bed was made 66 XXXIII. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS—We travelled 67 in the print of olden wars XXXIV. SKERRYVORE—For love of lovely words 68 XXXV. SKERRYVORE: THE PARALLEL—Here all is sunny 69 XXXVI. My house, I say 70 XXXVII. My body which my dungeon is 71 XXXVIII. Say not of me that weakly I declined 73