The ways are green 158
XXXIV. Life in her creaking shoes 169
XXXV. A late lark twitters from the quiet skies 161
XXXVI. I gave my heart to a woman 163
XXXVII. Or ever the knightly years were gone 164
XXXVIII. On the way to Kew 166
XXXIX. The past was goodly once 168
XL. The spring, my dear 169
XLI. The Spirit of Wine 170
XLII. A Wink from Hesper 172
XLIII. Friends. . . old friends 173
XLIV. If it should come to be 175
XLV. From the brake the Nightingale 179
XLVI. In the waste hour 178
XLVII. Crosses and troubles 181
LONDON VOLUNTARIES
I. _Grave_ 185
II. _Andante con Moto_ 187
III. _Scherzando_ 192
IV. _Largo e Mesto_ 186
V. _Allegro Maëstoso_ 200
RHYMES AND RHYTHMS
PROLOGUE 207
I. Where forlorn sunsets flare and fade 209
II. We are the Choice of the Will 211
III. A desolate shore 214
IV. It came with the threat of a waning moon 216
V. Why, my heart, do we love her so? 217
VI. One with the ruined sunset 218
VII. There’s a regret 219
VIII. Time and the Earth 221
IX. As like the Woman as you can 223
X. Midsummer midnight skies 225
XI. Gulls in an aery morrice 227
XII. Some starlit garden grey with dew 228
XIII. Under a stagnant sky 229
XIV. Fresh from his fastnesses 231
XV. You played and sang a snatch of song 233
XVI. Space and dread and the dark 234
XVII. Tree, Old Tree of the Triple Crook 236
XVIII. When you wake in your crib 239
XIX. O, Time and Change 242
XX. The shadow of Dawn 243
XXI. When the wind storms by with a shout 244
XXII. Trees and the menace of night 245
XXIII.
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