Introduction ................................................ Xiii
Special note .............................................. Xxxvi
Note to seventh impression ........................... Xxxvii

*section a - poetry*

*four early poems (1865–1866)*
1. The alchemist in the city ................................... 3
2. ‘let me be to thee as the circling bird’ ................ 4
3. Heaven-haven ............................................... 5
4. The habit of perfection .................................... 5

*poems (1876–1889)*
Author’s preface (with explanatory notes by the editor) .. 7
5. The wreck of the deutschland .............................. 12
6. Penmaen pool ................................................. 24
7. The silver jubilee .......................................... 26
8. God’s grandeur ............................................... 27
9. The starlight night ......................................... 27
10. Spring ........................................................ 28
11. The lantern out of doors ................................. 28
12. The sea and the skylark ................................... 29
13. The windhover ............................................... 30
14. Pied beauty ................................................. 30
15. Hurrahing in harvest ...................................... 31
16. The caged skylark .......................................... 31
17. In the valley of the elwy ................................ 32
18. The loss of the eurydice ................................. 33
19. The may magnificat ........................................ 37
20. Binsey poplars .............................................. 39
21. Duns scotus’s oxford ...................................... 40
22. Henry purcell ............................................... 41
23. Peace ......................................................... 42
24. The bugler’s first communion ........................... 42

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