Contents
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
SELECTED POEMS
On Albina
Forget Me Not
Charade
Hope in Grief
On the Death of a Cat
Sappho
Heart’s Chill Between
Death’s Chill Between
Lines/given with a Penwiper
A Pause of Thought
Song [‘She sat and sang alway’]
Song [‘When I am dead, my dearest’]
Some ladies dress in muslin full and white
On Keats
Song [‘Oh roses for the flush of youth’]
Have you forgotten?
Sweet Death
An End
Dream-Land
Remember
Three Nuns
Portraits
‘Consider the Lilies of the Field’ [‘Flowers preach to us if we will hear’]
The P.R.B.
The Bourne
The World
From the Antique
Three Stages
Echo
My Dream
May
Shut Out
Amen
The Hour and the Ghost
The Lowest Room
A Triad
Love from the North
In an Artist’s Studio
A Better Resurrection
‘Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive’
‘The heart knoweth its own bitterness’ [‘When all the over-work of life’]
A Birthday
An Apple-Gathering
Winter: My Secret
Maude Clare
At Home
Up-Hill
The Convent Threshold
‘What good shall my life do me?’ [‘Have dead men long to wait?’]
Winter Rain
L.E.L.
Goblin Market
‘No, Thank You, John’
‘Out of the Deep’
The Queen of Hearts
Consider
The Lowest Place
Beauty is Vain
What Would I Give?
Who Shall Deliver Me?
Twice
Jessie Cameron
The Prince’s Progress
Memory
Amor Mundi
‘The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children’
A Daughter of Eve
A Smile and a Sigh
Autumn Violets
‘They Desire a Better Country’
A Christmas Carol
Love me, – I love you
A city plum is not a plum
A baby’s cradle with no baby in it
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth
A linnet in a gilded cage
If all were rain and never sun
If I were a Queen
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow
Brown and furry
A toadstool comes up in a night
If a pig wore a wig
How many seconds in a minute?
What is pink? a rose is pink
A pin has a head, but has no hair
When fishes set umbrellas up
The peacock has a score of eyes
The wind has such a rainy sound
Who has seen the wind?
When a mounting skylark sings
An emerald is as green as grass
What does the bee do?
I caught a little ladybird
Baby lies so fast asleep
Confluents
‘Yet a little while’
Monna Innominata
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
The Key-Note
He and She
De Profundis
‘Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious’
At Last
Mariana
Passing and Glassing
The Thread of Life
Touching ‘Never’
An Old-World Thicket
Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets
‘Judge nothing before the time’
Joy is but sorrow
‘Redeeming the Time’
‘Doeth well… doeth better’
A Castle-Builder’s World
Piteous my rhyme is
If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living
Roses on a brier
‘Called to be Saints’
Of each sad word which is more sorrowful
Our heaven must be within ourselves
‘A Helpmeet for Him’
O ye who love today
Lord, I am feeble and of mean account
What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love still
As froth on the face of the deep
Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow
Hope is the counterpoise of fear
‘Subject to like Passions as we are’
Experience bows a sweet contented face
‘Charity never Faileth’
Safe where I cannot lie yet
How great is little man!
‘The Greatest of these is Charity’
‘O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!’
Time seems not short
‘Judge not according to the appearance’
St Peter
‘Sit down in the lowest room’
‘Consider the Lilies of the Field’ [‘Solomon most glorious in array’]
Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful
Babylon the Great
‘Do this, and he doeth it’
‘Standing afar off for the fear of her torment’
Vigil of St Bartholomew
‘Who hath despised the day of small things?’
Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines