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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. To My Father
  4. A Hidden Life
  5. The Homeless Ghost
  6. Abu Midjan
  7. An Old Story
  8. A Book of Dreams
  9. To Aurelio Saffi
  10. A. M. D.
  11. A Memorial of Africa
  12. A Gift
  13. The Man of Songs
  14. Better Things
  15. The Journey
  16. Prayer
  17. Rest
  18. To A. J. Scott
  19. Light
  20. To A. J. Scott: When, Long Ago, the Daring of My Youth
  21. Were I a Skilful Painter
  22. If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
  23. Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth
  24. The Hills
  25. I Know What Beauty Is
  26. I Would I Were a Child
  27. The Lost Soul
  28. A Dream Within a Dream
  29. After an Old Legend
  30. The Tree’s Prayer
  31. A Story of the Sea-Shore
  32. My Heart
  33. O Do Not Leave Me
  34. The Flower-Angels
  35. To My Sister
  36. Oh Thou of Little Faith
  37. Longing: My Heart Is Full of Inarticulate Pain
  38. The Disciple
  39. The Child-Mother
  40. Love’s Ordeal
  41. A Prayer for the Past
  42. Far and Near
  43. My Room
  44. Sympathy
  45. Little Elfie
  46. The Thank-Offering
  47. The Burnt-Offering
  48. To S. F. S.
  49. The Unseen Face
  50. Concerning Jesus
  51. Death and Birth
  52. Longing: Away from the City’s Herds!
  53. My Eyes Make Pictures
  54. Death
  55. Lessons for a Child
  56. Hope Deferred: Summer Is Come Again. The Sun Is Bright,
  57. The Death of the Old Year
  58. A Thanksgiving
  59. The Gospel Women
    1. I: The Mother Mary
    2. II: The Woman That Lifted Up Her Voice
    3. III: The Mother of Zebedee’s Children
    4. IV: The Syrophenician Woman
    5. V: The Widow of Nain
    6. VI: The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound
    7. VII: The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd
    8. VIII: The Widow with the Two Mites
    9. IX: The Women Who Ministered Unto Him
    10. X: Pilate’s Wife
    11. XI: The Woman of Samaria
    12. XII: Mary Magdalene
    13. XIII: The Woman in the Temple
    14. XIV: Martha
    15. XV: Mary
    16. XVI: The Woman That Was a Sinner
  60. A Song in a Dream
  61. Songs of the Days and Nights
    1. Songs of the Summer Days
    2. Songs of the Summer Nights
    3. Songs of the Autumn Days
    4. Songs of the Autumn Nights
    5. Songs of the Winter Days
    6. Songs of the Winter Nights
    7. Songs of the Spring Days
    8. Songs of the Spring Nights
  62. The Three Horses
  63. The Golden Key
  64. Somnium Mystici
  65. The Sangreal
  66. The Failing Track
  67. Tell Me
  68. Brother Artist!
  69. Sir Lark and King Sun
  70. The Owl and the Bell
  71. He Heeded Not
  72. The Sheep and the Goat
  73. The Shadows
  74. An Old Sermon with a New Text
  75. The Wakeful Sleeper
  76. A Dream of Waking
  77. A Meditation of St. Eligius
  78. Hymn for a Sick Girl
  79. A Christmas Carol for 1862
  80. A Christmas Carol
  81. The Sleepless Jesus
  82. The Children’s Heaven
  83. Rejoice
  84. The Grace of Grace
  85. Antiphon
  86. Dorcas
  87. Marriage Song
  88. Blind Bartimeus
  89. Come Unto Me
  90. Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
  91. Blessed Are They That Mourn
  92. Blessed Are the Meek
  93. Blessed Are They That Hunger
  94. Blessed Are the Merciful
  95. Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
  96. Morning Hymn
  97. Evening Hymn
  98. Noontide Hymn
  99. The Thankless Lady
  100. The Sea-Shell
  101. Autumn Song
  102. Spring Song
  103. What Makes Summer?
  104. The Mistletoe
  105. Wild Flowers
  106. Professor Noctutus
  107. Bird-Songs
  108. The Unseen Model
  109. Legend of the Corrievrechan
  110. The Dead Hand
  111. To Lady Noel Byron
  112. To Garibaldi, with a Book
  113. To the Same
  114. The Holy Midnight
  115. Hard Times
  116. Summer Song
  117. Picture Songs
  118. A Dream Song
  119. A Manchester Poem
  120. Riddles
  121. Baby
  122. Up and Down
  123. Up in the Tree
  124. A Baby-Sermon
  125. Little Bo-Peep
  126. Little Boy Blue
  127. Willie’s Question
  128. The Early Bird
  129. Song of the Lonely
  130. The Diary of an Old Soul
    1. Dedication
    2. January
    3. February
    4. March
    5. April
    6. May
    7. June
    8. July
    9. August
    10. September
    11. October
    12. November
    13. December
  131. A Threefold Cord
    1. Dedication
    2. The Haunted House
    3. In the Winter
    4. Christmas-Day, 1878
    5. The New Year
    6. Two Rondels
    7. Rondel: Heart, Thou Must Learn to Do Without—
    8. Song: Lighter and Sweeter
    9. Smoke
    10. To a Certain Critic
    11. Song: She Loves Thee, Loves Thee Not!
    12. A Cry
    13. From Home
    14. To My Mother Earth
    15. Thy Heart
    16. O Lord, How Happy!
    17. No Sign
    18. The Chrysalis
    19. November, 1851
    20. Of One Who Died in Spring
    21. An Autumn Song
    22. Triolet: Few in Joy’s Sweet Riot
    23. I See Thee Not
    24. A Broken Prayer
    25. Come Down
    26. A Thanksgiving for F. D. Maurice
    27. A Mood
    28. The Carpenter
    29. The Old Garden
    30. A Noonday Melody
    31. Who Lights the Fire?
    32. Who Would Have Thought?
    33. On a December Day
    34. Christmas Day, 1850
    35. To a February Primrose
    36. In February
    37. The True
    38. The Dwellers Therein
    39. Autumn’s Gold
    40. Punishment
    41. Show Us the Father
    42. The Pinafore
    43. The Prism
    44. Sleep
    45. Sharing
    46. In Bonds
    47. Hunger
    48. To the Clouds
    49. New Year’s Eve: A Waking Dream
    50. Death: Mourn Not, My Friends, That We Are Growing Old
    51. From North Wales: To the Mother
    52. Come to Me
    53. A Fear
    54. The Lost House
    55. The Talk of the Echoes
    56. The Goal
    57. The Healer
    58. Oh That a Wind
    59. A Vision of St. Eligius
    60. Of the Son of Man
    61. A Song-Sermon:
    62. Words in the Night
    63. Consider the Ravens
    64. The Wind of the World
    65. Sabbath Bells
    66. Fighting
    67. After the Fashion of an Old Emblem
    68. George Rolleston
    69. A Prayer in Sickness
    70. Quiet Dead!
    71. Let Your Light So Shine
    72. Triolet: When the Heart Is a Cup
    73. The Souls’ Rising
    74. Awake!
    75. To an Autograph-Hunter
    76. Second Sight
    77. With a Copy of “In Memoriam”
    78. They Are Blind
    79. When the Storm Was Proudest
    80. Not Understood
    81. Hom. Il. V 403
    82. The Dawn
    83. Galileo
    84. Subsidy
    85. The Prophet
    86. The Watcher
    87. The Beloved Disciple
    88. The Lily of the Valley
    89. Evil Influence
    90. Spoken of Several Philosophers
    91. Nature a Moral Power
    92. To June
    93. Summer
    94. On a Midge
    95. Steadfast
    96. Provision
    97. First Sight of the Sea
    98. On the Source of the Arve
    99. Confidence
    100. Fate
    101. Unrest
    102. My Two Geniuses
    103. Sudden Calm
    104. Thou Also
    105. The Aurora Borealis
    106. The Human
    107. Written on a Stormy Night
    108. Reverence Waking Hope
    109. Born of Water
    110. To a Thunder-Cloud
    111. Sun and Moon
    112. Doubt Heralding Vision
    113. Life of Death?
    114. Lost and Found
    115. The Moon
    116. Truth, Not Form!
    117. God in Growth
    118. In a Churchyard
    119. Power
    120. Death: Yes, There Is One Who Makes Us All Lay Down
    121. That Holy Thing
    122. What Man Is There of You?
    123. Bell Upon Organ
    124. O Wind of God
    125. Shall the Dead Praise Thee?
    126. One with Nature
    127. A Year Song
    128. Song: Why Do the Houses Stand
    129. For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
    130. The Asthmatic Man to the Satan That Binds Him
    131. Song-Sermon: Lord, What Is Man
    132. Shadows
    133. A Winter Prayer
    134. Song of a Poor Pilgrim
    135. An Evening Prayer
    136. Song-Sermon: Mercy to Thee, O Lord, Belongs
    137. A Dream-Song
    138. Christmas, 1880
    139. Rondel: I Do Not Know Thy Final Will
    140. The Sparrow
    141. December 23, 1879
    142. Song-Prayer
    143. December 27, 1879
    144. Sunday, December 28, 1879
    145. Song-Sermon: In His Arms Thy Silly Lamb
    146. The Donkey in the Cart to the Horse in the Carriage
    147. Room to Roam
    148. Cottage Songs
      1. I: By the Cradle
      2. II: Sweeping the Floor
      3. III: Washing the Clothes
      4. IV: Drawing Water
      5. V: Cleaning the Windows
    149. The Wind and the Moon
    150. The Foolish Harebell
    151. Song: I Was Very Cold
    152. An Improvisation
    153. Equity
    154. The Consoler
    155. To ⸻
    156. To a Sister
    157. Contrition
    158. The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs
  132. Russell Gurney
  133. To One Threatened with Blindness
  134. To Aubrey de Vere
  135. General Gordon
  136. Written for One in Sore Pain
  137. Christmas, 1873
  138. Christmas, 1884
  139. A Song for Christmas
  140. To My Aging Friends
  141. Christmas Song of the Old Children
  142. Christmas Meditation
  143. The Old Castle
  144. Christmas Prayer
  145. Song of the Innocents
  146. Christmas Day and Every Day
  147. Rondel
  148. A Prayer: When I Look Back Upon My Life Nigh Spent
  149. Home from the Wars
  150. God; Not Gift
  151. To Any Friend
  152. Winter Song
  153. At My Window After Sunset
  154. A Father to a Mother
  155. The Temple of God
  156. Going to Sleep
  157. To-Morrow
  158. Foolish Children
  159. Love Is Home
  160. Faith
  161. Waiting: I Waited for the Master
  162. Our Ship
  163. My Heart Thy Lark
  164. Two in One
  165. Bedtime
  166. A Prayer: Thou Who Mad’st the Mighty Clock
  167. A Song Prayer
  168. Reciprocity
  169. What the Lord Saith
  170. How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song
  171. This World
  172. Saint Peter
  173. Zacchaeus
  174. After Thomas Kemp
  175. To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum
  176. Song of the Saints and Angels
  177. Failure
  178. To E. G., Dedicating a Book
  179. To G. M. T.
  180. In Memoriam Lady Caroline Charteris
  181. A Mammon-Marriage
  182. A Song in the Night: A Brown Bird Sang on a Blossomy Tree
  183. Love’s History
  184. The Lark and the Wind
  185. A Dead House
  186. Master and Boy
  187. The Clock of the Universe
  188. The Thorn in the Flesh
  189. Lycabas
  190. In the Night
  191. The Giver
  192. False Prophets
  193. Life-Weary
  194. Approaches
  195. Travellers’ Song
  196. Love Is Strength
  197. Coming
  198. A Song of the Waiting Dead
  199. Obedience
  200. A Song in the Night: I Would I Were an Angel Strong
  201. De Profundis
  202. Blind Sorrow
  203. Angels
  204. The Father’s Worshippers
  205. A Birthday-Wish
  206. To Any One
  207. Waiting: Lie, Little Cow, and Chew Thy Cud
  208. Lost but Safe
  209. Much and More
  210. Hope and Patience
  211. A Better Thing
  212. A Prisoner
  213. To My Lord and Master
  214. To One Unsatisfied
  215. To My God
  216. Triolet
  217. The Word of God
  218. To the Life Eternal
  219. Hope Deferred: Where Is Thy Crown, O Tree of Love?
  220. Forgiveness
  221. Dejection
  222. Appeal
  223. Mother Nature
  224. King Cole
  225. Said and Did
  226. Dr. Doddridge’s Dog
  227. The Girl That Lost Things
  228. A Make-Believe
  229. The Christmas Child
  230. A Christmas Prayer
  231. No End of No-Story
  232. Endnotes
  233. Colophon
  234. Uncopyright

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