Unicorn and the White Doe 8 Sullen Moods 11 A False Report 13 Children of Darkness 14 Richard Roe and John Doe 15 The Dialecticians 16 The Lands of Whipperginny 17 “The General Elliott” 18 A Fight to the Death 20 Old Wives’ Tales 21 Christmas Eve 23 The Snake and the Bull 24 The Red Ribbon Dream 27 In Procession 29 Henry and Mary 34 An English Wood 35 Mirror, Mirror! 36 What did I dream? 37 Interlude: On Preserving a Poetical Formula 38 A History of Peace 39 The Rock Below 40 An Idyll of Old Age 42 The Lord Chamberlain tells of a Famous Meeting 44 The Sewing Basket 48 Against Clock and Compasses 51 The Avengers 52 On the Poet’s Birth 53 The Technique of Perfection 54 The Sibyl 56 A Crusader 57 A New Portrait of Judith of Bethulia 58 A Reversal 59 The Martyred Decadents: a Sympathetic Satire 60 Epigrams-- On Christopher Marlowe 62 A Village Conflict 62 Dedicatory 62 To R. Graves, Senior 63 “A Vehicle, to wit, a Bicycle” 63 Motto to a Book of Emblems 63 The Bowl and Rim 64