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A collection of lyric poems offering impressionistic sketches of urban and seaside scenes that linger on mood more than plot. Short pieces move through theatre, cafés, promenades, and nocturnes to explore fleeting sensations of love, memory, and aesthetic perception. Sensuous details—scent, music, and light—are foregrounded, and symbolist-inflected techniques emphasize atmosphere and subjective response rather than narrative development. The arrangement reads as a series of portraits and reveries that shift subtly between observation and delicate psychological insight.
DOWN the valley will I wander, singing songs forlorn,
Waiting for the maiden coming up between the corn.
Down below I hear the river babbling to the breeze,
And I see the sunlight kiss the tresses of the trees.
All the corn is shining with the tears of early rain:
Come, thou sunlight of mine eyes, and bring the dawn again!
Down the valley will I wander, singing songs forlorn,
Till I meet the maiden coming up between the corn.