RENASCENCE

[i]

[ii] [iii]

[iv] [v]

OF the poems in this book, the whole of those included in Part I. are now printed for the first time.

Of the rest, “The Sirens Three,” “Thoughts in a Hammock,” “A Herald of Spring,” and the Rondeau—“Across the Fields,” all appeared with designs of mine, as decorative pages, in “The English Illustrated Magazine,” “The Sirens Three” being afterwards issued, with the illustrations, in book-form, by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., whom I have to thank for permission to reprint it with the others here.

“Flora’s Feast,” with coloured designs of the flowers to each couplet, has been published as a Christmas book by Messrs. Cassell and Co., at whose consent it re-appears.

I regret there should have been any delay in the appearance of the book, which has been owing to the illness of the engraver who had charge of some of the blocks.

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PART I. EARLIER POEMS

[2] [3]

INVOCATION

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·THE·CITY·OF·LOVE·

[16]

THE·HOVSE·OF·DREAMS

(THE SONG OF MEMORY AND TIME.)

(SONG OF THE HOURS.)

TIME

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LOVE’S·LABYRINTH

ERRATUM.

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·THE·DIVIDING·GULF·

[45]

·THE·VALLEY·of·DELIVERANCE

I

II

III

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IV

V

VI

VII

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VIII

IX

X

XI

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XII

XIII

XIV

XV

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XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

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XX

[51]

THE·UNKNOWN·SHORE·

I

II

III

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IV

V

VI

[53]

THE·WEST·WIND

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