Part 2

Her son, albeit the Muse’s livery THE POINT OF TASTE, 19

Unhappy poets of a sunken prime! CAMELUS SALTAT, 20

What say you, critic, now you have become CONTINUED, 20

Oracle of the market! thence you drew MY THEME, 21

Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt: CONTINUED, 21

’Tis true the wisdom that my mind exacts ON THE DANGER OF WAR, 22

Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed, TO CARDINAL MANNING, 23

I, wakeful for the skylark voice in men, TO COLONEL CHARLES, 24

An English heart, my commandant, TO CHILDREN: FOR TYRANTS, 27

Strike not thy dog with a stick! Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, 33

Enter these enchanted woods, A BALLAD OF PAST MERIDIAN, 48

Last night returning from my twilight walk THE DAY OF THE DAUGHTER OF HADES, 49

He who has looked upon Earth THE LARK ASCENDING, 67

He rises and begins to round, PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS, 71

When by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, MELAMPUS, 75

With love exceeding a simple love of the things LOVE IN THE VALLEY, 80

Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD, 88

Carols nature, counsel men, THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, 90

I chanced upon an early walk to spy EARTH AND MAN, 92

On her great venture, Man, A BALLAD OF FAIR LADIES IN REVOLT, 100

See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath Ballads and poems of Tragic Life THE TWO MASKS, 115

Melpomene among her livid people, ARCHDUCHESS ANNE, 116 I. In middle age an evil thing II. Archduchess Anne sat carved in frost III. Old Kraken read a missive penned THE SONG OF THEODOLINDA, 133

Queen Theodolind has built A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD, 139

Ladies who in chains of wedlock THE YOUNG PRINCESS, 144 I. When the South sang like a nightingale II. The lords of the Court they sighed heart-sick, III. Lord Dusiote sprang from priest and squire; IV. The soft night-wind went laden to death KING HARALD’S TRANCE, 154

Sword in length a reaping-hook amain WHIMPER OF SYMPATHY, 158

Hawk or shrike has done this deed YOUNG REYNARD, 159

Gracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cub MANFRED, 160

Projected from the bilious Childe, HERNANI, 161