Book: Satires of Circumstance

• The Convergence Of The Twain

  In a solitude of the sea
  Deep from human vanity,

  45 lines, 1 comment
• Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?

  "Ah, are you digging on my grave,
              My loved one? — planting rue?"

  41 lines, 13 comments
• The Jubilee Of A Magazine:(To The Editor)

  Yes; your up-dated modern page —
  All flower-fresh, as it appears —

  48 lines
• The Voice

  Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
  Saying that now you are not as you were

  16 lines, 2 comments
• Seen By The Waits

  Through snowy woods and shady
    We went to play a tune

  21 lines
• Channel Firing

  That night your great guns, unawares,
  Shook all our coffins as we

  36 lines, 4 comments
• The Roman Gravemounds

  By Rome's dim relics there walks a man,
  Eyes bent; and he carries a basket and spade;

  24 lines
• When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

  When I set out for Lyonnesse,
      A hundred miles away,

  18 lines, 2 comments
• Exeunt Omnes

  I
  Everybody else, then, going,

  18 lines
• In The Moonlight

  "O lonely workman, standing there
  In a dream, why do you stare and stare

  15 lines
• The Sacrilege: (A Ballad-Tragedy)

  PART I
  

  162 lines
• A Thunderstorm In Town

  She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress,
  And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,

  10 lines, 6 comments
• The Death Of Regret

  I opened my shutter at sunrise,
    And looked at the hill hard by,

  33 lines
• From: Men Who March Away

  In our heart of hearts believing
  Victory crown the just,

  31 lines
• The Telegram

  'O He's suffering -- maybe dying -- and I not there to aid,
  And smooth his bed and whisper to him! Can I nohow go?

  24 lines
• The Year's Awakening

  How do you know that the pilgrim track
  Along the belting zodiac

  20 lines
• The Satin Shoes

  'If ever I walk to church to wed,
  As other maidens use,

  64 lines
• The Ghost Of The Past

  We two kept house, the Past and I,
        The Past and I;

  43 lines
• The Abbey Mason

  The new-vamped Abbey shaped apace
  In the fourteenth century of grace;

  218 lines
• The Sun On The Bookcase

  Once more the cauldron of the sun
  Smears the bookcase with winy red,

  14 lines
• The Workbox

  See, here's the workbox, little wife,
  That I made of polished oak.'

  40 lines
• Under The Waterfall

  'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this,
  In a basin of water, I never miss

  54 lines, 1 comment
• In The Days Of Crinoline

  A plain tilt-bonnet on her head
  She took the path across the leaze.

  39 lines, 1 comment
• My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound

  My spirit will not haunt the mound
        Above my breast,

  16 lines
• The Two Soldiers

  Just at the corner of the wall
  We met -- yes, he and I --

  24 lines
• Her Song

  I sang that song on Sunday,
  To witch an idle while,

  24 lines
• The Moth-Signal (On Egdon Heath)

  'What are you still, still thinking,
  He asked in vague surmise,

  36 lines
• A Poet

  Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,
  Assessing minds, he does not need,

  16 lines, 2 comments
• The Sweet Hussy

  In his early days he was quite surprised
  When she told him she was compromised

  12 lines

• By me, right now

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