CONTENTS
PAGEIntroductionxiTo Dives1Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge Duringa South-Westerly Gale4The South Country7The Fanatic10Noël14The Early Morning16The Birds17Our Lord and Our Lady18In a Boat20Courtesy22The Night24The Leader25A Bivouac27To the Balliol Men Still in Africa28Verses to a Lord Who, in the House of Lords,Said That Those Who Opposed the SouthAfrican Adventure Confused Soldiers withMoney-Grubbers30The Rebel32The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening34Song, Inviting the Influence of a Young Ladyupon the Opening Year36The Ring37Cuckoo38The Mirror39The Little Serving Maid40The End of the Road43Auvergnat45Drinking Song, on the Excellence ofBurgundy Wine46Drinking Dirge48West Sussex Drinking Song50A Ballad on Sociological Economics52An Oracle That Warned the Writer Whenon Pilgrimage54Heretics All55The Death and Last Confession of WanderingPeter56Dedicatory Ode58Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child66Dedication of a Child’s Book of ImaginaryTales67Homage68Fille-la-Haine69The Moon’s Funeral70The Happy Journalist72Lines to a Don74Newdigate Poem77The Yellow Mustard82On Hygiene83The False Heart84Sonnet upon God the Wine-Giver85The Politician or the Irish Earldom86Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols89