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.
THE
SHORTER
POEMS
IN FOUR BOOKS
SHORTER POEMS
BOOK I
DEDICATED TO
H. E. W.
1
ELEGY
2
ELEGY
3
4
THE CLIFF-TOP
THE OCEAN.
[A cloud speaks.
A CLOUD.
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
ELEGY
ON A LADY, WHOM GRIEF FOR THE DEATH OF HER BETROTHED KILLED
15
RONDEAU
16
TRIOLET
17
TRIOLET
SHORTER POEMS
BOOK II
TO
THE MEMORY OF
G. M. H.
1
MUSE.
POET.
MUSE.
POET.
MUSE.
POET.
MUSE.
POET.
MUSE.
POET.
2
A PASSER-BY
3
LATE SPRING EVENING
4
WOOING
5
6
A WATER-PARTY
7
THE DOWNS
8
SPRING
ODE I
INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY
9
SPRING
ODE II
REPLY
10
ELEGY
AMONG THE TOMBS
11
DEJECTION
12
MORNING HYMN
13
SHORTER POEMS
BOOK III
TO
R. W. D.
1
2
LONDON SNOW
3
THE VOICE OF NATURE
4
ON A DEAD CHILD
5
THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS MISTRESS
6
7
INDOLENCE
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
SONG
17
18
19
SHORTER POEMS
BOOK IV
TO
L. B. C. L. M.
1
2
3
4
5
LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890
6
APRIL, 1885
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
THE WINDMILL
14
15
16
17
18
19
ANNIVERSARY
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
LAUS DEO
SHORTER POEMS
BOOK V
TO
M. G. K.
1
THE WINNOWERS
2
THE AFFLICTION OF RICHARD
3
4
THE GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER
5
6
LARKS
7
THE PALM WILLOW
8
ASIAN BIRDS
9
JANUARY
10
A ROBIN
11
12
NIGHTINGALES
13
14
FOUNDER’S DAY. A SECULAR ODE
ON THE NINTH JUBILEE OF
ETON COLLEGE
15
16
NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER
17
FIRST SPRING MORNING
A CHILD’S POEM
18
A VILLAGER
19
NEW
POEMS
NEW POEMS
ECLOGUE I
THE MONTHS
BASIL AND EDWARD
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
ECLOGUE II
GIOVANNI DUPRÈ
LAWRENCE AND RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
LAWRENCE
RICHARD
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
4
ELEGY
THE SUMMER-HOUSE ON THE MOUND
5
6
THE SOUTH WIND
7
8
9
10
SEPTUAGESIMA
11
12
13
PATER FILIO
14
NOVEMBER
15
WINTER NIGHTFALL
16
17
18
WISHES
19
A LOVE LYRIC
20
ΕΡΟΣΕΡΟΣ
21
THE FAIR BRASS
22
THE DUTEOUS HEART
23
THE IDLE FLOWERS
24
DUNSTONE HILL
25
SCREAMING TARN
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.
27
AN ANNIVERSARY
HE
SHE
HE
SHE
HE
28
REGINA CARA
JUBILEE-SONG, FOR MUSIC, 1897
O felix anima, Domina praeclara,
Amore semper coronabere
Regina cara.