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A wide-ranging collection of lyric and narrative poems organized into sections of war verse, pilgrimage and travel pieces, and miscellaneous lyrics, with a concluding group of classical imitations. The war poems register loss, duty, and the domestic aftermath of conflict through concise dramatic scenes and elegiac address. The pilgrimage pieces and imitations evoke historical and continental places, juxtaposing ancient monuments and personal memory. Miscellaneous poems move between rural observation, nature, love, mourning, and skepticism about modern reason, employing varied forms—from monologue to reflective lyric—and a tone that mixes melancholy, irony, and restrained passion.
[253] The “Race” is the turbulent sea-area off the Bill of Portland, where contrary tides meet.
[290] Pronounce “Loddy.”
[457] On a lonely table-land above the Vale of Blackmore, between High-Stoy and Bubb-Down hills, and commanding in clear weather views that extend from the English to the Bristol Channel, stands a pillar, apparently mediæval, called Cross-and-Hand or Christ-in-Hand. Among other stories of its origin a local tradition preserves the one here given.