The Heart of England

INDEX

• Achilles, modern, questioning Ulysses, 189
• After-harvest, stillness of, 99
• Aphrodite, 169
• Apollo and Pan, 27
• Apple blossom, 166-169
• Ash-tree, solitary, dying, endiademed with woe, 53, 54;
• how its leaves are shed, 124
• August, 73-76;
• Nature’s perfect poise, 73;
• cool places in, 73;
• the woods in, 75
• Autumn, 176
• Autumn bells, 174, 175
• Autumn garden, an, 93-96, 174, 175;
• farmhouse the royal flower of, 93;
• a farmer’s love of his, 95
• Ballad, a pathetic, described, 207, 208;
• on the horse, 190, 237
• Ballads and folk-songs, 206-208;
• their words and melodies richest in immortal symbols, 206, 207
• Barge, a black, 143-145;
• its strange cargo, 145
• Beech wood, a, 166
• Birdnesting, 60
• “Blue Bell,” the cosmic melody, 194
• Bodleian Library, August in, 73
• Books, a night with, 118
• Boy, long thoughts of, 3
• Brook, the, 88-92;
• its insect, mineral, and plant life, 88-91;
• its meandering course, 91, 92
• Burns, Robert, prejudice against his poetry for epitaphs, 114
• Calm, effect of, 2
• Carbonek, castle of, 225-232;
• now only a ruined crag, 226;
• dreary outlook from, 226;
• and Sir Launcelot’s vision, 229-232
• Cassiopeia, the constellation, 194
• Catullus, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Centaur, farmer on horse compared to, 66
• Chalk hills, the, 171
• Cherry blossom, 153, 154
• Cherry of Zennor, Hunt’s story of, 198-201;
• her dissatisfaction with home, 199;
• her strange adventure, 199;
• her curiosity and its consequences, 200, 201
• Church bells, 176
• Church, decorated, description of, 41-48;
• service in, 41-43;
• hymn-singing, 42;
• modern worshippers and mythical gods, 43;
• caged bells, 43
• Church, village, description of, 176-178;
• dull worshippers, 177;
• a spiritless sermon, 178;
• dream of an earthly heaven, 178-180
• Clock, a silent, 118, 119
• Clouds on the sea, 216-219;
• their changeableness, 217, 218
• Coach, London, 78
• Company, good, walking in, 28-30
• Country churchyard, a, 111-115;
• village life in, 111;
• life and death in, 111, 112;
• epitaphs, 112-115;
• eighteenth and nineteenth century epitaphs compared, 112
• Country lover, the, 91
• Crashaw’s poem, 62
• Daffodils, the first, 183-191
• Dante, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Dawn, beauties of nature at, 15, 16;
• a July, 119
• Deucalion stones, 223
• Dis, chariot of, coming to Persephone, 148
• “Dolly Gray,” sung in July fields, 206
• Downs, the, 171-3
• Dream, a strange, 39, 40
• Earth Children, 126-137
• Elves, lingering superstitions regarding, 66
• Epitaph on infant’s tomb, 24
• Epitaphs, 112-115;
• history and progress seen in, 112;
• sources of, 113, 114
• “Fantastic summer’s heat,” 73
• Farm, an old, 64-68;
• relics of its long-dead generations, 67;
• a deserted, 69, 70
• Farmer, his life and habits, 66-68;
• his house, 67;
• his library, 67, 68;
• relics of ancestors and thoughts of posterity, 68
• Farmer’s daughter, the, 168, 169
• Farmhouse, the royal flower of autumn, 93;
• youth and antiquity mingled in the aspect of, 93, 94;
• wayfarer’s first view of, 96;
• a little red, 100;
• life in, 101
• Farmyard, in a, 52-55
• Faunus, 21-25
• Fell and moor, 184
• Field, a green, 84-87;
• antiquity of, 86;
• November the notable month of, 87
• Fields, antiquity of, 86
• Fishing-boats in a tidal river, 214, 215
• Footpaths, ancient, 115
• “Four Elms, The,” typical village inn, 106, 110;
• its old-time furniture, 107;
• tramps and labourers in tap-room, 107-110
• Fox-hunt, 141, 155-165
• Gaberdine, a pedlar’s description of, 186
• Galahad and Launcelot, 228
• Gardens, summer flowers in, 170, 171;
• autumn flowers, 174, 175
• Garland day, 44-48;
• song of, 48
• Gods, ancient, and modern worshippers, 42, 43;
• and heroes, 54
• Golden Age, the, 13, 15, 16, 100-102;
• and modern literature, 14
• Goldfinches happy among thistles, 87
• Good Friday and marbles, 60
• Happiness, pursuit of, futile, 83
• Happy Fields, 73
• Harvest, a little before, 170-173
• Harvest field, a moonlight love-race in, 201-204
• Harvest moon, under a, 202-204
• Haul of spring flowers, a March, 211-213
• Hazlitt, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Heathland in the wind, 216, 217
• Hedges, unruliness of, 84
• Heroes and gods, 54
• Hill, a tall beechen, 153
• Holm-bank Hunting Song the, 194
• “Hop-idgit,” the, or “shim,” 126
• Horse, ballad on the, 190
• House, white stone, 74
• Hunt’s story of Cherry of Zennor, 198
• Inn, the village, 205-208;
• metamorphosed into a temple of all souls, 208
• Inns, 63, 104, 106, 123, 183, 194;
• a medley, 5;
• roadside, 5, 61
• January sunshine, 140-142
• July night, and dawn, a, reminiscences of a, 118, 119
• Junonian woman, 73, 76;
• best representative of August, 73
• Keats, 147, 148
• Kilhwch, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• King, Farmer, anecdote of his hay, 129
• Labourer, aged, reminiscences of, 77-82;
• a memory with a voice, 79;
• feats of strength and endurance, 80, 81;
• his coaching days, 81;
• disciple of Culpeper, 82
• Lamia and Lycius, 226
• Landscapes on the walls by the roadside, 192
• Lane, an ideal country, 56, 57
• Launcelot, Sir, at the water of Morteise, 228;
• his vision of the Sangreal, 228;
• his adventures, 228-232;
• at the castle of Carbonek, 229-232
• Lethe, 214
• Lethe’s stream, the flotsam on, 101
• Literature, modern, 14
• London, 7, 188;
• midnight walk in, 7;
• pedestrians encountered, 7, 8;
• river, seen from bridge, 8;
• names of streets an epitome of the world and time, 9;
• can it be told? 188, 189;
• The Soul of London, 188
• Love-race in a moonlit harvest-field, 201-204
• Lover’s game, children playing at, 59
• Lycius, Corinthian, and Lamia, 226
• Malory’s story of Sir Launcelot and the Sangreal, 228
• Marbles and Good Friday, 60
• March doubts, 37-40
• March haul, a, 211, 213
• Marlowe, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Marsh, the, 220-222
• “Mary, come into the Field,” a peasant song, 34, 35, 237, 238
• Maypole, the village, 70
• Meadowland, 56-63;
• pastoral inhabitants of, 58
• Meadow-sweet, the, 75
• Men prisons to themselves, 7
• Meredith, Arabella, old man’s love-story concerning, 157-163;
• her prowess in the hunting-field, 158;
• her proposal of marriage, 159;
• at the Fair, 161;
• her lover’s daring swim, 162, 163;
• her death, 163
• Merediths, the, 157
• Metamorphosis of the trees, 124
• Mind, pool an image of the, 154
• Moon, reign of, 153, 154
• Moor and fell, 184
• Moor, under the, 198-201
• Moorhen, the home of the, 85
• Morning, pride of the, 121-123
• Morteise, water of, Sir Launcelot at the, 228
• Mountainous country, scene in, 183
• Mountains haunting the day, 184
• Mowing, extraordinary day’s work at, 80, 81;
• song, 11, 235
• Music, the romantic cry of matter striving to become spirit, 206
• Myratana and blind Tiriel, 226
• Names, of streets, an epitome, 9;
• of inns, rich in suggestion, 9
• Nature, sorrowing, 5;
• a philosopher of, 12;
• beauties of, at dawn, 15, 16, 119
• No man’s garden, 31-36
• November, the notable month of the field, 87;
• rain, 138, 139
• Orchard, an, 167
• Pace-egging Play, 179
• Paganism, eternal, the multitude’s, 130, 131
• Page, Margaret Helen, earth child, 127;
• her better days, 127;
• her Franciscan fondness for bird and beast, 127;
• her Christian-pagan prayer and aspirations, 128-130
• Page, Robert, earth child, 126;
• his home, 127;
• his varied avocations, 131, 132;
• his belief of all things in print, 133;
• his strange dream of the judgment day, 133, 134;
• Bacchus his only god, 134;
• his likeness to a lesser god in mythology, 135, 136
• Palomides, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Pan and Apollo, 27
• Pastoral inhabitants of meadowland, 58;
• song, 58;
• valley, 174
• Pedlar, a, 186;
• his picturesque dress, 186;
• his birthplace, 186;
• his simple life described, 187;
• his questionings, 187-190
• Pelleas, 228
• Pellinore, 228
• Persephone and the chariot of Dis, 148
• Pleiades, the, and clouds, 218
• Ploughman, the, 22-25;
• his daily task, 23;
• his recreation, 23, 24
• Poetry, pastoral, 14
• Poison, slow, dream-search for, 39, 40
• Pond, a primeval, 52, 53;
• the field, 85;
• its aspect at dawn, 86
• Pond-mirror, the, 192-197;
• reflections on and in, 196, 197
• Pool, beauties of, 73-76;
• an image of the mind, reflections in, 154
• “Poor Mary,” children’s lovers’ game, 59, 60
• Poppies, 71
• Popular Romances of the West of England, Hunt’s, 198
• Pork, roast, procuring a dinner of, 79, 80
• Princess, an impossible, 72
• Rain, night walk in, 5, 6
• River, a tidal, fishing-heats in, 214
• Robin’s eggs, superstition regarding, 60
• Ruy Blas, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Sail, one, at sea, 223, 224;
• image of watcher’s hopes, 223
• St. Martin’s Summer, 118-120
• Sangreal, Sir Launcelot and the, 228, 229
• Sea, clouds on the, 216, 219;
• one sail at, 223, 224
• Seifelmolouk, modern, and his memlooks, 43
• “Shim,” or “hop-idgit” of six tynes, the Sussex, 126
• Sign-post, duty of, 10
• Siren, melody of, 220
• Song, a country marching, 11, 235
• Songs, old, fragments of, 29, 30, 34
• Songs with music: Mowing song, 235;
• Holm-bank Hunting Song, 236;
• Poor old Horse, song of the, 237;
• Mary, come into the Field 237, 238;
• La Fille du Roi, 238
• Soul of London, the, 188
• Sovereign things, three: ship, chariot, plough, 21
• Spring, birds and flowers, 37-40
• Squire of olden days, a, 79
• Streets, as seen from railway carriage, 3, 4;
• a problem, 4;
• at night, 8;
• city, 9;
• names of, an epitome, 9
• Suburban street, a, 1
• Summer garden, 170, 171
• Summer-time, 170
• Sunday, autumn, in country, 176-180
• Sunshine, January, 140-142
• Superstitions: robin’s eggs, 60;
• elves, 66;
• tadpoles, 82
• Swift, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Symbols that surge and satisfy, 205
• Tadpoles, rustic remedy for “decline,” 82
• Tartarus, 131
• Ten miles drive, 155
• Tennyson’s poetry as source of epitaphs, 114
• Times, old-fashioned, 77-82;
• advantages and disadvantages, 78;
• were they “good”? 78
• Tiriel, blind, and Myratana, 226
• Tombs, only records of early races, 111, 112;
• life and death of, 112;
• various objects in, 111;
• bodies found in sitting posture, 112
• Tower, a spectacular, 221
• Town-leaving, 1-17
• Tramp, a, conversations with, 31-35;
• his wife, 32;
• a murder, 32, 33;
• on Bank-holiday, 35, 36;
• at work, 36
• Tramps of various nationalities, 107;
• strange sleeping-place of, 115
• Tree-worship, mild, suggestion of, 192
• Trees, 6, 16;
• ancient, 42;
• metamorphosis of, 124
• Valley, a quiet, 140
• Village, the, 103-117;
• its ancient cottages, 105;
• its church and churchyard, 104, 111;
• its inns and their frequenters, 104, 106-110;
• flower-gardens, 105;
• its eighteenth-century vicarage, 106;
• longevity of inhabitants, 113;
• its roads and footpaths, 115, 116;
• its archæological and historic remains, 116
• Villon, love of, song suggestive of, 208
• Walnut-tree, the, 97-99
• Watercress-man, 2;
• conversation with, 11-15;
• as philosopher and flower-seller, 12;
• as landscape-painter, 12-13
• Water-mill, deserted, 97
• Wayfarer, the, 121
• Winter morning, a, 146
• Wood at sunrise, 44;
• antiquity of, 46;
• youth of, 47;
• an old, beauties of, 49-51;
• memories evoked by, 51;
• a triangular, 139
• Woodland walk, 26, 27, 44-51
• World, still primitive, the, 143
• Worshipper, modern and ancient gods, 42, 43
• Yeoman of long ancestry, 156;
• and Enid, his betrothed, 157, 160, 164
• Youth, wood of, 47