Contents

I

The Bird-catcher

Honey Harvest

Spanish Vintage

Summer in Winter

Rhapsody on a Pink-Iced Cake

The Eve of the Fair

II

Before the Battle

Immortality

Bugles

Epitaph

Man Seeks to Cage Delight

To Hate

III

To Messaline

Puppets

IV

Heard in a Lane

Rain in Spring

Blue Night

On the Salt Marsh

Frost in Lincoln’s Inn Fields

The Naiad

Christmas Eve

V

The Fisherman’s Rest

Mrs. Reece Laughs

VI

Expostulation to Helen

To Helen with a Bottle of Scent

Serenade

The House of Love

Autumn

The Immortals

Fog in the Channel

From the French

VII

Cathedral at Night

Poetry and Memory

The Secret

All is One

The Cage

A Note on the Author