| PREFATORY NOTE | |
| I. | THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS |
| II. | THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT |
| III. | THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS |
| IV. | THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY |
| V. | THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY |
| VI. | THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS |
| VII. | THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS |
| VIII. | THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS |
| IX. | THE EVENTS OF TEN WEEKS |
| X. | THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT |
| XI. | THE EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS |
| XII. | THE EVENTS OF TEN MONTHS |
| XIII. | THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY |
| XIV. | THE EVENTS OF FIVE WEEKS |
| XV. | THE EVENTS OF THREE WEEKS |
| XVI. | THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK |
| XVII. | THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY |
| XVIII. | THE EVENTS OF THREE DAYS |
| XIX. | THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT |
| XX. | THE EVENTS OF THREE HOURS |
| XXI. | THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN HOURS |
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V.R. 1819–1901 |
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WAR POEMS— |
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Embarcation |
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Departure |
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The Colonel’s Soliloquy |
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The Going of the Battery |
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At the War Office |
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A Christmas Ghost-Story |
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The Dead Drummer |
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A Wife in London |
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The Souls of the Slain |
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Song of the Soldiers’ Wives |
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The Sick God |
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POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE— |
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Genoa and the Mediterranean |
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Shelley’s Skylark |
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In the Old Theatre, Fiesole |
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Rome: on the Palatine |
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,, Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter |
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,, The Vatican: Sala Delle Muse |
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,, At the Pyramid of Cestius |
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Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden |
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Zermatt: To the Matterhorn |
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The Bridge of Lodi |
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On an Invitation to the United States |
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The Mother Mourns |
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“I said to Love” |
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A Commonplace Day |
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At a Lunar Eclipse |
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The Lacking Sense |
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To Life |
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Doom and She |
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The Problem |
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The Subalterns |
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The Sleep-worker |
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The Bullfinches |
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God-Forgotten |
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The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God |
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By the Earth’s Corpse |
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Mute Opinion |
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To an Unborn Pauper Child |
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To Flowers from Italy in Winter |
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On a Fine Morning |
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To Lizbie Browne |
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Song of Hope |
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The Well-Beloved |
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Her Reproach |
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The Inconsistent |
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A Broken Appointment |
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“Between us now” |
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“How great my Grief” |
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“I need not go” |
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The Coquette, and After |
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Long Plighted |
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The Widow |
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At a Hasty Wedding |
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The Dream-Follower |
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His Immortality |
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The To-be-Forgotten |
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Wives in the Sere |
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The Superseded |
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An August Midnight |
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The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again |
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Birds at Winter Nightfall |
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The Puzzled Game-Birds |
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Winter in Durnover Field |
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The Last Chrysanthemum |
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The Darkling Thrush |
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The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham |
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Mad Judy |
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A Wasted Illness |
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A Man |
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The Dame of Athelhall |
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The Seasons of her Year |
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The Milkmaid |
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The Levelled Churchyard |
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The Ruined Maid |
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The Respectable Burgher on “the Higher Criticism” |
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Architectural Masks |
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The Tenant-for-Life |
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The Tree: an Old Man’s Story |
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Her Late Husband |
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The Self-Unseeing |
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De Profundis i. |
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De Profundis ii. |
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De Profundis iii. |
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The Church-Builder |
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The Lost Pyx: a Mediæval Legend |
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Tess’s Lament |
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The Supplanter: A Tale |
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IMITATIONS, Etc.— |
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Sapphic Fragment |
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Catullus: xxxi |
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After Schiller |
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Song: From Heine |
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From Victor Hugo |
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Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael |
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RETROSPECT— |
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“I have Lived with Shades” |
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Memory and I |
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ΑΓΝΩΣΤΩ. ΘΕΩ |
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Moments of Vision |
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The Voice of Things |
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“Why be at pains?” |
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“We sat at the window” |
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Afternoon Service at Mellstock |
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At the Wicket-gate |
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In a Museum |
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Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune |
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At the Word “Farewell” |
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First Sight of Her and After |
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The Rival |
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Heredity |
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“You were the sort that men forget” |
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She, I, and They |
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Near Lanivet, 1872 |
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Joys of Memory |
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To the Moon |
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Copying Architecture in an Old Minster |
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Quid hic agis? |
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On a Midsummer Eve |
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Timing Her |
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Before Knowledge |
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The Blinded Bird |
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“The wind blew words” |
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The Faded Face |
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The Riddle |
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The Duel |
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At Mayfair Lodgings |
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To my Father’s Violin |
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The Statue of Liberty |
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The Background and the Figure |
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The Change |
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Sitting on the Bridge |
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The Young Churchwarden |
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“I travel as a phantom now” |
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Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony |
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“In the seventies” |
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The Pedigree |
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This Heart. A Woman’s Dream |
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Where they lived |
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The Occultation |
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Life laughs Onward |
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The Peace-offering |
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The Wound |
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A Merrymaking in Question |
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“I said and sang her excellence” |
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A January Night. 1879 |
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A Kiss |
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The Announcement |
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The Oxen |
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The Tresses |
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The Photograph |
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On a Heath |
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An Anniversary |
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“By the Runic Stone” |
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The Pink Frock |
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Transformations |
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In her Precincts |
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The Last Signal |
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The House of Silence |
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Great Things |
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The Chimes |
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The Figure in the Scene |
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“Why did I sketch” |
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Conjecture |
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The Blow |
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Love the Monopolist |
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At Middle-field Gate in February |
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The Head above the Fog |
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Overlooking the River Stour |
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The Musical Box |
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On Sturminster Foot-bridge |
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Royal Sponsors |
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Old Furniture |
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A Thought in Two Moods |
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The Last Performance |
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“You on the tower” |
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The Interloper |
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Logs on the Hearth |
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The Sunshade |
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The Ageing House |
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The Caged Goldfinch |
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At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years |
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The Ballet |
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The Five Students |
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The Wind’s Prophecy |
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During Wind and Rain |
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He prefers her Earthly |
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The Dolls |
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Molly gone |
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A Backward Spring |
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Looking Across |
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At a Seaside Town in 1869 |
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The Pedestrian |
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“Who’s in the next room?” |
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At a Country Fair |
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The Memorial Brass: 186- |
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Her Love-birds |
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Paying Calls |
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The Upper Birch-Leaves |
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“It never looks like summer” |
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Everything comes |
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The Man with a Past |
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He fears his Good Fortune |
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He wonders about Himself |
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Jubilate |
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He revisits his First School |
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“I thought, my heart” |
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Fragment |
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Midnight on the Great Western |
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Honeymoon Time at an Inn |
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The Robin |
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“I rose and went to Rou’tor town” |
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The Nettles |
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In a Waiting-room |
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The Clock-winder |
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Old Excursions |
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The Masked Face |
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The Something that saved Him |
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The Enemy’s Portrait |
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Imaginings |
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On the Doorstep |
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Signs and Tokens |
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Paths of Former Time |
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The Clock of the Years |
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At the Piano |
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The Shadow on the Stone |
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In the Garden |
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The Tree and the Lady |
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An Upbraiding |
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The Young Glass-stainer |
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Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary |
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The Choirmaster’s Burial |
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The Man who forgot |
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While drawing in a Churchyard |
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“For Life I had never cared greatly” |
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Poems of War and Patriotism— |
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“Men who march away” (Song of the Soldiers) |
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His Country |
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England to Germany in 1914 |
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On the Belgian Expatriation |
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The Pity of It |
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In Time of Wars and Tumults |
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In Time of “the Breaking of nations” |
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Cry of the Homeless |
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Before Marching and After |
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“Often when warring” |
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Then and Now |
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A Call to National Service |
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The Dead and the Living One |
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A New Year’s Eve in War Time |
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“I met a man” |
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“I looked up from my writing” |
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Finale— |
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The Coming of the End |
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Afterwards |
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