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To Clementina Black.

• More blest than was of old Diogenes,
• I have not held my lantern up in vain.
• Not mine, at least, this evil—to complain :
• “There is none honest among all of these.”

• Our hopes go down that sailed before the breeze ;
• Our creeds upon the rock are rent in twain ;
• Something it is, if at the last remain
• One floating spar cast up by hungry seas.

• The secret of our being, who can tell ?
• To praise the gods and Fate is not my part ;
• Evil I see, and pain ; within my heart
• There is no voice that whispers : “All is well.”

• Yet fair are days in summer ; and more fair
• The growths of human goodness here and there.

A London Plane‐Tree.

• A London Plane‐Tree 17
• London in July 18
• A March Day in London 19
• Ballade of an Omnibus 21
• Ballade of a Special Edition 23
• Roundels 25‐27
  • Straw in the Street 25
  • Between the Showers26
  • Out of Town27
• The Piano‐Organ 28
• London Poets 29
• The Village Garden 30

Love, Dreams, and Death.

• New Love, New Life 35
• Impotens 36
• Youth and Love 37
• The Dream 38
• On the Threshold 39
• The Birch‐Tree at Loschwitz 40
• In the Night 41
• Borderland 42
• page: 10
• At Dawn 43
• Last Words 44
• June 46
• A Reminiscence 47
• The Sequel to “A Reminiscence” 48
• In the Mile End Road 50
• Contradictions 51
• Twilight 52
• In September 53

Moods and Thoughts.

• The Old House 57
• Lohengrin 58
• Alma Mater 59
• In the Black Forest 61
• Captivity 62
• The Two Terrors 64
• The Promise of Sleep 65
• The Last Judgment 66
• Felo de Se 68
• The Lost Friend 71
• Cambridge in the Long 72
• To Vernon Lee 74
• The Old Poet 75
• On the Wye in May 77
• Oh, is it Love? 78
• In the Nower 79
• The End of the Day 80

Odds and Ends.

• Songs from The New Phaon (unpublished)—
  • 1. A Wall‐flower 85
  • 2. The First Extra 86
  • 3. At a Dinner Party 87
• Philosophy 88
• A Game of Lawn Tennis 90
• To E. 91