Contents
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionHuman Shows: Far Phantasies; Songs, and Trifles
- Contents
- Waiting Both
- A Bird-scene at a Rural Dwelling
- Any Little Old Song
- In a Former Resort after Many Years
- A Cathedral Façade at Midnight
- The Turnip-hoer
- The Carrier
- Lover to Mistress: Song
- The Monument-maker
- Circus-rider to Ringmaster
- Last Week in October
- Come not; yet Come!: Song
- The Later Autumn
- Let Me Believe: Song
- At a Fashionable Dinner
- Green Slates: Penpethy
- An East-end Curate
- At Rushy-pond
- Four in the Morning
- On the Esplanade
- In St. Paul's a While Ago
- Coming up Oxford Street: Evening
- A Last Journey
- Singing Lovers
- The Month's Calendar
- A Spellbound Palace: Hampton Court
- When Dead
- Sine Prole: Latin Sequence-Metre
- Ten Years Since
- Every Artemisia
- The Best She Could
- The Graveyard of Dead Creeds
- There Seemed a Strangeness: A Phantasy
- A Night of Questionings
- Xenophanes, the Monist of Colophon
- Life and Death at Sunrise
- Night-time in Mid-Fall
- A Sheep Fair
- Snow in the Suburbs
- A Light Snow-fall after Frost
- Winter Night in Woodland: Old Time
- Ice on the Highway
- Music in a Snowy Street
- The Frozen Greenhouse: St. Juliot
- Two Lips
- No Buyers: A Street Scene
- One who Married above Him
- The New Toy
- Queen Caroline to her Guests
- Plena Timoris
- The Weary Walker
- Last Love-word: Song
- Nobody Comes
- In the Street: Song
- The Last Leaf
- At Wynyard's Gap
- At Shag's Heath
- A Second Attempt
- Freed the Fret of Thinking
- The Absolute Explains
- So, Time: The Same Thought Resumed
- An Inquiry: A Phantasy
- The Faithful Swallow
- In Sherborne Abbey
- The Pair he Saw Pass
- The Mock Wife
- The Fight on Durnover Moor
- Last Look round St. Martin's Fair
- The Caricature
- A Leader of Fashion
- Midnight on Beechen
- The Aërolite
- The Prospect
- Genitrix Laesa: Sarum Sequence Measure
- The Fading Rose
- When Oats were Reaped
- Louie
- She Opened the Door
- What's There to Tell?: Song
- The Harbour Bridge
- Vagrant's Song: With an Old Wessex Refrain
- Farmer Dunman's Funeral
- The Sexton at Longpuddle
- The Harvest-supper
- At a Pause in a Country Dance
- On the Portrait of a Woman about to be Hanged
- The Church and the Wedding
- The Shiver
- Not Only I
- She saw him, she said
- Once at Swanage
- The Flower's Tragedy
- At the Aquatic Sports
- A Watcher's Regret: J. E.'s Story
- Horses Abroad
- The History of an Hour
- The Missed Train
- Under High-stoy Hill
- At the Mill
- Alike and Unlike: Great-Orme's Head
- The Thing Unplanned
- The Sheep-boy
- Retty's Phases
- A Poor Man and a Lady
- An Expostulation
- To a Sea-cliff: Durlston Head
- The Echo-elf Answers
- Cynic's Epitaph
- A Beauty's Soliloquy during her Honeymoon
- Donaghadee: Song
- He Inadvertently Cures his Love-pains: Song
- The Peace Peal: After Four Years of Silence
- Lady Vi
- A Popular Personage at Home
- Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells: After a Restoration
- A Refusal
- Epitaph on a Pessimist
- The Protean Maiden: Song
- A Watering-place Lady Inventoried
- The Sea Fight
- Paradox
- The Rover Come Home
- Known had I: Song
- The Pat of Butter
- Bags of Meat
- The Sundial on a Wet Day
- Her Haunting-ground
- A Parting-scene
- Shortening Days at the Homestead
- Days to Recollect
- To C. F. H.: On her Christening-Day
- The High-school Lawn
- The Forbidden Banns: A Ballad of the Eighteen-Thirties
- The Paphian Ball: Another Christmas Experience of the Mellstock Quire
- On Martock Moor
- That Moment
- Premonitions
- This Summer and Last
- Nothing Matters Much
- In the Evening
- The Six Boards
- Before my Friend Arrived
- Compassion: an Ode
- Why She Moved House: The Dog Muses
- Tragedian to Tragedienne
- The Lady of Forebodings
- The Bird-catcher's Boy
- A Hurried Meeting
- Discouragement: Natura Naturans
- A Leaving
- Song to an Old Burden
- Why do I?
- Close sectionWinter Words: in Various Moods and Metres
- Contents
- Introductory note
- The New Dawn's Business
- Proud Songsters
- Thoughts at Midnight
- I Am the One
- The Prophetess
- A Wish for Unconsciousness
- The Bad Example
- To Louisa in the Lane
- Love Watches a Window
- The Love-Letters: In Memoriam H. R.
- An Unkindly May
- Unkept Good Fridays
- The Mound
- Liddell and Scott: On the Completion of their Lexicon
- Christmastide
- Reluctant Confession
- Expectation and Experience
- Aristodemus the Messenian: Dramatic Hendecasyllabics
- Evening Shadows
- The Three Tall Men
- The Lodging-House Fuchsias
- The Whaler's Wife
- Throwing a Tree
- The War-Wife of Catknoll
- Concerning His Old Home
- Her Second Husband Hears Her Story
- Yuletide in a Younger World
- After the Death of a Friend
- The Son's Portrait
- Lying Awake
- The Lady in the Furs
- Childhood Among the Ferns
- A Countenance
- A Poet's Thought
- Silences
- I Watched a Blackbird
- A Nightmare, and the Next Thing
- To a Tree in London
- The Felled Elm and She
- He Did Not Know Me: Woman's Sorrow Song
- So Various
- A Self-Glamourer
- The Dead Bastard
- The Clasped Skeletons
- In the Marquee
- After the Burial
- The Mongrel
- Concerning Agnes
- Henley Regatta
- An Evening in Galilee
- The Brother
- We Field-Women
- A Practical Woman
- Squire Hooper
- 'A Gentleman's Second-Hand Suit'
- We Say We Shall Not Meet
- Seeing the Moon Rise
- Song to Aurore
- He Never Expected Much: [or] A Consideration
- Standing by the Mantelpiece
- Boys Then and Now
- The Kiss in the Dark
- A Necessitarian's Epitaph
- Burning the Holly
- Suspense
- The Second Visit
- Our Old Friend Dualism
- Faithful Wilson
- Gallant's Song
- A Philosophical Fantasy
- A Question of Marriage
- The Letter's Triumph: A Fancy
- A Forgotten Miniature
- Whispered at the Church-Opening
- In Weatherbury Stocks
- A Placid Man's Epitaph
- The New Boots
- The Musing Maiden
- Lorna the Second
- A Daughter Returns
- The Third Kissing-Gate
- Drinking Song
- The Tarrying Bridegroom
- The Destined Pair
- A Musical Incident
- June Leaves and Autumn
- No Bell-Ringing: A Ballad of Durnover
- I Looked Back
- The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes
- Christmas: 1924
- The Single Witness
- How She Went to Ireland
- Dead 'Wessex' the Dog to the Household
- The Woman Who Went East
- Not Known
- The Boy's Dream
- The Gap in the White
- Family Portraits
- The Catching Ballet of the Wedding Clothes
- A Winsome Woman: Song
- The Ballad of Love's Skeleton
- A Private Man on Public Men
- Christmas in the Elgin Room
- We Are Getting to the End
- He Resolves to Say No More
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- Contents
- Domicilium
- The Unplanted Primrose
- To a Bridegroom
- Eunice
- Epigraph to 'The Woodlanders'
- When Wearily We Shrink Away
- A Victorian Rehearsal
- She Would Welcome Old Tribulations
- Close sectionFrom 'The Dynasts'
- Motto for the Wessex Society of Manchester
- Looking Back
- On the Doorstep
- The Calf
- A.H., 1855–1912
- The Yellow-Hammer
- Prologue to 'The Dynasts'
- Epilogue to 'The Dynasts'
- A Jingle on the Times
- A Hundred Years Since
- The Lizard
- The Sound of Her
- They Are Great Trees
- On J. M. B.
- Close sectionFrom 'The Queen of Cornwall'
- Thoughts from Sophocles
- The Hatband
- Epitaph [for G.K. Chesterton]
- On one who thought no other could write such English as himself: Epitaph [for George Moore]
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End Matter
- Explanatory Notes
- Close sectionAppendix A
- Close sectionAppendix B
- Close sectionAppendix C
- Appendix D: Revised Texts and Lists of Revisions in the Dorset County Museum
- Appendix E: Chronological List of Dated Poems
- Appendix F: Glossary of Dialect, Archaic, and Obsolete Words
- Appendix G: Glossary of Place-names
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
