"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems
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Excerpt from England and YesterdayNot now for secular love's unquiet lease, Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee erewhile, Hath broken tryst with transitory things But seal with her a marriage and a peace Eternal, on thine Edward's altar-isle.
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- “ENGLAND AND YESTERDAY”
- CONTENTS.
- LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. TO HERBERT E. CLARKE.
- I. ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
- II. FOG.
- III. S. PETER-AD-VINCULA.
- IV. STRIKERS IN HYDE PARK.
- V. CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE.
- VI. THE LIGHTS OF LONDON.
- VII. DOVES.
- VIII. IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
- IX. SUNDAY CHIMES IN THE CITY.
- X. A PORCH IN BELGRAVIA.
- XI. YORK STAIRS.
- XII. IN THE DOCKS.
- OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE IN 1890 AND 1895. TO LIONEL JOHNSON.
- I. THE TOW-PATH.
- II. THE OLD DIAL OF CORPUS.
- III. AD ANTIQUARIUM.
- IV. ROOKS IN NEW COLLEGE GARDENS.
- V. ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD.
- VI. ON THE SAME (CONTINUED).
- VII. A DECEMBER WALK.
- VIII. UNDERTONES AT MAGDALEN.
- IX. PORT MEADOW.
- X. MARTYRS’ MEMORIAL.
- XI. A LAST VIEW.
- XII. RETRIEVAL.
- LYRICS. TO DORA SIGERSON SHORTER AND CLEMENT SHORTER.
- A BALLAD OF KENELM.
- TWO IRISH PEASANT SONGS.
- I. IN LEINSTER.
- II. IN ULSTER.
- IN A RUIN, AFTER A THUNDERSTORM.
- TO A CHILD.
- IN A PERPENDICULAR CHURCH.
- A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SONG.
- COLUMBA AND THE STORK.
- THE CHANTRY.
- APRIL IN GOVILON.
- ON LEAVING WINCHESTER.
- ON THE CENOTAPH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL IN SAINT GEORGE’S CHAPEL.
- OF JOAN’S YOUTH.
- PASSING THE MINSTER.
- THE YEW-TREE.
- SHROPSHIRE LANDSCAPE.
- THE GRAHAM TARTAN TO A GRAHAM.
- IN A LONDON STREET.
- ATHASSEL ABBEY.
- ROMANS IN DORSET. (TO A. B.)
- LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES. TO GWENLLIAN E. F. MORGAN.
- TO HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.
- FOR IZAAK WALTON.
- A FOOT-NOTE TO A FAMOUS LYRIC.
- A MEMORY OF A BRECONSHIRE VALLEY.
- I.
- II.
- WRIT IN MY LORD CLARENDON’S “HISTORY OF THE REBELLION.”
- A LAST WORD ON SHELLEY.
- AN EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM HAZLITT.
- EMILY BRONTË.
- PAX PAGANICA.
- VALEDICTION (R. L. S., 1894).
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