Poems

Contents of Opals (1897)

The Waking of Spring (1895) [1]

The Parting Hour (1895) [2]

A Love Lay (1896)[3]

Love’s Firstfruits

The Song Spinner

Twilight[4]

Ideal

The Blue Mist

With a Book of Fairy Tales

Delight

Glamour of Gold

Vilanelle[5]

Sunshine[6]

Virelay: Regret

A Lament for the Leaves

Autumn Night

Spirit Speech

June

Harvest Moon

A Sleep Song

Fantasy

In a Boat

Comforted

Dream Tryst

The Poet’s Picture[7]

An Impression

A Dream

Bereft

A Madrigal[8]

Rain Music

Doubts

The Spring is Here

A Mood[9]

A Pause

Sunset and Sunrise

Flirtation

The Song Bird

An April Mood

The White Statue[10]

Blind Love

A Lilt of Tears

The Music of Dvorák

 

Contents of Rainbows (1902)

Rainbows

A Song to Beauty

Songs of a Fairy Princess.

The Fairy Prince:

I           The Princess at the Gate

II          The Coming of the Prince

III        The Letter

IV        A Song of Welcome

V          Forget-me-nots[11]

The Masquerade

A Girl’s Love

The Secret

After the Dance

The Song

The Heart of a Child

The Kiss

The Snow

Mélissande

After Rain

A Dancing Girl

A Sea Song

Reminiscences

Ritornello

Grey Eyes

The White Witch

The Dreamer

The Lingering Day

In Praise of Love

Antinous

The Silence of Love

Good-night

Love and Death:

I The Victory of Love

II The Victory of Death

Music

Pierrot[12]

April Twilight

April

Life

A Song of Youth

To a Playfellow

A Swallow Song

The Coming of Dawn

A Rainy Day

The Girl in the Glass

 

Contents of The Blue Bird (1905)

 To My Husband (Dedication)

The Blue Bird

The Photograph[13]

Statues

Endymion

Hyacinthus

‘God took great roses rare and pale’

The Child

Beauty

Black Butterflies

‘Quelque part une enfance très douce doit mourir’

Angels

St. Sebastian

Candle-light

A Memory

A Dream

Blue Flowers

Madrigal [14]

The Autumn Day

Grief

Daffodil Dawn

In the South

‘I am weary, let me sleep’

Spring in the South

Surrender

Peacocks. A Mood.

 

New material in The Inn of Dreams (1911)

The Inn of Dreams

The Kingdom of Heaven

A Dream

The Autumn Day

Angels

The Changeling

A Song Against Care

The Vision

The Dance

The Prisoner of God

The Storm

St. Anthony

Black Butterflies

In Praise of Youth

Opal Song

Gifts

Primrose Hill

A Morning Song

The Wings of Fortune

Shadow-Nets

Hyacinthus

Hylas

Blue Flowers

Endymion

Dance Song

A Memory

The Magic Mirrors

Uncollected and previously unpublished poems

The Girl (1920s)

To Byron (1924)

The Woman Remembers  (1920s)

 

To Bosie … after reading his Autobiography (1929The Shepherds (c. 1929)

To the Wounded (c. 1940)

Immortal Youth (c. 1940)

[1] The Yellow Book, Jan 1895, Vol.4.

[2] The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1895.

[3] The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1893-Sept. 1914, Jun 1896, Vol.9(38), pp.240-241.

[4] The Yellow Book, Oct 1894, Vol.3.

[5] The Pall Mall Magazine, Nov 1900, Vol.22(91), p. 343.

[6] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Apr 1896, Vol.9.

[7] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Oct 1895, Vol.7.

[8] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Jul 1895, Vol.6.

[9] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Jan 1896, Vol.8.

[10] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Oct 1896, Vol.11, p. 91.

[11] First appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine, Aug 1898, Issue 179.

[12] First appeared in The Yellow Book, Apr 1897, Vol.13.

[13] First appeared in Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, Apr 30, 1904, Vol.97(2531), pp.556-556.

[14] Not the same poem as ‘A Madrigal’.