Poetical Works of ROBERT BRIDGES

Volume II

London Smith, Elder & Co 15 Waterloo Place 1898

OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES

VOLUME THE SECOND CONTAINING

LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS

SHORTER POEMS.

1. Bks. I-IV. Clarendon Press. Geo. Bell & Sons, Oct. 1890. Reprinted, Nov. 1890, 1891, 1894.

2. Bks. I-V. Private Press of H. Daniel. Oxford, 1894.

3. Do. do. Clarendon Press. George Bell & Sons, 1896.

4. Cheap issue of 3. 1899. Reprinted, 1899.

NEW POEMS.

Collected here for the first time.

For account of earlier issues of first four books of Shorter Poems, and of some of the poems contained in the New Poems, see notes at end of this volume.

[Pg 5]

THE SHORTER POEMS

IN FOUR BOOKS

SHORTER POEMS

BOOK I

DEDICATED TO H. E. W.

[Pg 9]

1 ELEGY

[Pg 12]

2 ELEGY

[Pg 14]

3

[Pg 16]

4 THE CLIFF-TOP

THE OCEAN.

[A cloud speaks.

[Pg 18]

A CLOUD.

[Pg 19]

[Pg 20]

5

[Pg 22]

6

[Pg 23]

7

[Pg 25]

8

[Pg 26]

9

[Pg 27]

10

[Pg 28]

11

[Pg 30]

12

[Pg 32]

13

[Pg 34]

14 ELEGY

ON A LADY, WHOM GRIEF FOR THE DEATH OF HER BETROTHED KILLED

[Pg 38]

15 RONDEAU

[Pg 39]

16 TRIOLET

[Pg 40]

17 TRIOLET

[Pg 41]

SHORTER POEMS

BOOK II

[Pg 42]

TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.

[Pg 43]

1

MUSE.

POET.

MUSE.

POET.

MUSE.

POET.

MUSE.

POET.

MUSE.

POET.

[Pg 46]

2 A PASSER-BY

[Pg 48]

3 LATE SPRING EVENING

[Pg 50]

4 WOOING

[Pg 53]

5

[Pg 57]

6 A WATER-PARTY

[Pg 59]

7 THE DOWNS

[Pg 61]

8 SPRING

ODE I

INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY

[Pg 66]

9 SPRING

ODE II

REPLY

[Pg 71]

10 ELEGY

AMONG THE TOMBS

[Pg 75]

11 DEJECTION

[Pg 77]

12 MORNING HYMN

[Pg 80]

13

[Pg 82] [Pg 83]

SHORTER POEMS

BOOK III

[Pg 84]

TO R. W. D.

[Pg 85]

1

[Pg 87]

2 LONDON SNOW

[Pg 89]

3 THE VOICE OF NATURE

[Pg 91]

4 ON A DEAD CHILD

[Pg 93]

5 THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS MISTRESS

[Pg 95]

6

[Pg 96]

7 INDOLENCE

[Pg 99]

8

[Pg 101]

9

[Pg 103]

10

[Pg 104]

11

[Pg 106]

12

[Pg 108]

13

[Pg 112]

14

[Pg 113]

15

[Pg 115]

16 SONG

[Pg 117]

17

[Pg 118]

18

[Pg 119]

19

[Pg 120] [Pg 121]

SHORTER POEMS

BOOK IV

[Pg 122]

TO L. B. C. L. M.

[Pg 123]

1

[Pg 124]

2

[Pg 126]

3

[Pg 127]

4

[Pg 128]

5 LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890

[Pg 130]

6

APRIL, 1885

[Pg 131]

7

[Pg 133]

8

[Pg 134]

9

[Pg 135]

10

[Pg 137]

11

[Pg 138]

12

[Pg 139]

13 THE WINDMILL

[Pg 141]

14

[Pg 142]

15

[Pg 143]

16

[Pg 144]

17

[Pg 145]

18

[Pg 147]

19 ANNIVERSARY

[Pg 149]

20

[Pg 150]

21

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22

[Pg 154]

23

[Pg 157]

24

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25

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26

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27

[Pg 163]

28

[Pg 165]

29

[Pg 166]

30 LAUS DEO

[Pg 167]

SHORTER POEMS

BOOK V

[Pg 168]

TO M. G. K.

[Pg 169]

1 THE WINNOWERS

[Pg 172]

2 THE AFFLICTION OF RICHARD

[Pg 174]

3

[Pg 175]

4 THE GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER

[Pg 178]

5

[Pg 179]

6 LARKS

[Pg 180]

7 THE PALM WILLOW

[Pg 181]

8 ASIAN BIRDS

[Pg 183]

9 JANUARY

[Pg 185]

10 A ROBIN

[Pg 187]

11

[Pg 189]

12 NIGHTINGALES

[Pg 191]

13

[Pg 194]

14 FOUNDER’S DAY. A SECULAR ODE ON THE NINTH JUBILEE OF ETON COLLEGE

[Pg 197]

[Pg 198]

15

[Pg 201]

16 NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER

[Pg 203]

17 FIRST SPRING MORNING

A CHILD’S POEM

[Pg 205]

18 A VILLAGER

[Pg 207]

19

[Pg 208] [Pg 209]

NEW POEMS

[Pg 210] [Pg 211]

NEW POEMS

ECLOGUE I THE MONTHS

BASIL AND EDWARD

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

[Pg 214]

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

[Pg 215]

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

[Pg 216]

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

[Pg 218]

ECLOGUE II GIOVANNI DUPRÈ

LAWRENCE AND RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

LAWRENCE

RICHARD

[Pg 223]

ECLOGUE III FOURTH OF JUNE AT ETON

RICHARD AND GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

GODFREY

RICHARD

[Pg 227]

4 ELEGY

THE SUMMER-HOUSE ON THE MOUND

[Pg 232]

5

[Pg 234]

6 THE SOUTH WIND

[Pg 237]

7

[Pg 239]

8

[Pg 241]

9

[Pg 243]

10 SEPTUAGESIMA

[Pg 245]

11

[Pg 247]

12

[Pg 249]

13 PATER FILIO

[Pg 251]

14 NOVEMBER

[Pg 254]

15 WINTER NIGHTFALL

[Pg 256]

16

[Pg 257]

17

[Pg 258]

18 WISHES

[Pg 259]

19 A LOVE LYRIC

[Pg 260]

20 ΕΡΟΣΕΡΟΣ

[Pg 262]

21 THE FAIR BRASS

[Pg 265]

22 THE DUTEOUS HEART

[Pg 267]

23 THE IDLE FLOWERS

[Pg 272]

24 DUNSTONE HILL

[Pg 275]

25 SCREAMING TARN

[Pg 282]

26 THE ISLE OF ACHILLES

(FROM THE GREEK)

Τὸν φίλτατόν σοι παῖδ’ ἐμοί τ’, Ἀχιλλέα ὄψει δόμους ναίοντα νησιωτικοὺς Λευκὴν κατ’ ἀκτὴν ἐντὸς Εὐξείνου πόρου. Eur. And. 1250.

[Pg 287]

27 AN ANNIVERSARY

HE

SHE

HE

SHE

HE

[Pg 289]

28 REGINA CARA

JUBILEE-SONG, FOR MUSIC, 1897

O felix anima, Domina praeclara, Amore semper coronabere Regina cara.

[Pg 290] [Pg 291]

[Pg 292]

NOTES

NOTE

The poems contained in Book I are my final selection from a volume published in 1873. Those of Book II are from a pamphlet published in 1879. Some of all these are in places corrected. Book III is made up of poems from a pamphlet published in 1880; to which are added others of about the same date. Some of these have already appeared in a volume printed for me by my friend the Rev. C. H. Daniel, in 1884. No. 6 was written to a tune by Dr. Howard. No. 19 is a pretty close translation of a poem by Théophile Gautier, which is itself a translation from the English by Thomas Moore in The Epicurean. All the poems in Book IV are now printed for the first time. No. 9 is a translation from a madrigal by Michael Angelo (No. VIII in Guasti). It is from my Comedy ’The Humours of the Court,’ in which also No. 16 occurs. No. 11 is from a Sicilian nona rima stanza, the first poem in Trucchi’s Poesie Italiane inedite. No. 3 is but the initial fragment of a poem which took another shape.

1890.

[Pg 293]

NOTE TO FOURTH EDITION

Book V was printed by Mr. Daniel in 1893 and published contemporaneously with an American edition, according to the requirements of the international copyright law. In passing the proofs of this edition I have altered the first line of No. 10: which being actually descriptive of a robin’s song, now appears as such. It was first printed ’Pink-throated linnet.’ I have also written ’and’ for ’or’ in two lines of V. 17, and amended I. 5.

1894.

NOTE TO PRESENT VOLUME

In revising my ’shorter poems’ for this edition I have corrected a few misprints which seem to have run through the earlier editions; and, though I have refrained from the vanity of trying to improve old work which has been so often printed, I have amended one or two lines which seemed peculiarly bad. I hope that the ’new poems’ which I have gathered to fill this second volume up to the size of the first, may be found in some respects better than[Pg 294] the old. Eclogues 2 and 3 have already appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, and the poems numbered severally 6, 14, 15 and 21, in Mr. Elkin Mathews’ Shilling Garland, No. II. 1896. The rest are printed here for the first time: they are of various dates, some of them were written this year for this volume.

R. B., Sept. 1899.

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INDEX

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation, spelling, accents and punctuation remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.