INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

POEMS 1869-1879

Ⅰ DEDICATION：My first gift and my last，to you

Ⅱ Last night，I lingered long without

Ⅲ AFTER READING ＇ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA＇：As when the hunt by holt and field

Ⅳ SPRING-SONG：The air was full of sun and birds

Ⅴ As Love and Hope together

Ⅵ DUDDINGSTON：With caws and chirrupings，the woods

Ⅶ The relic taken，what avails the shrine？

Ⅷ All things on earth and sea

Ⅸ I sit up here at midnight

Ⅹ I am a hunchback，yellow faced－

Ⅺ DEATH：We are as maidens one and all

Ⅻ A little before me，and hark!

ⅩⅢ EPISTLE TO CHARLES BAXTER：Reaped grain should fill the reaper＇s grange

ⅩⅣ CONSOLATION：Though he，that ever kind and true

ⅩⅤ TO SYDNEY：Not thine where marble-still and white

ⅩⅥ O dull，cold northern sky

ⅩⅦ Swallows travel to and fro

ⅩⅧ Let Love go，if go she will．

ⅩⅨ I am like one that for long days had sate

ⅩⅩ The roadside lined with ragweed，the sharp hills

ⅩⅪ Not undelightful，friend，our rustic ease

ⅩⅫ As Daniel，burd-alone，in that far land

ⅩⅩⅢ THE LIGHT-KEEPER：The brilliant kernel of the night

ⅩⅩⅣ My brain swims empty and light

ⅩⅩⅤ THE CRUEL MISTRESS：Here let me rest，here nurse the uneasy qualm

ⅩⅩⅥ STORM：The narrow lanes are vacant and wet

ⅩⅩⅦ STORMY NIGHTS：I cry out war to those who spend their utmost

ⅩⅩⅧ SONG AT DAWN：I see the dawn creep round the world

ⅩⅩⅨ NOUS N＇IRONS PLUS AUX BOIS：We＇ll walk the woods no more

ⅩⅩⅩ In Autumn when the woods are red

ⅩⅩⅪ Love is the very heart of Spring

ⅩⅩⅫ I who all the winter through

ⅩⅩⅩⅢ Here you rest among the vallies，maiden known to but a few

ⅩⅩⅩⅣ There where the land of love

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ Love－what is love？A great and aching heart

ⅩⅩⅩⅥ Death，to the dead for evermore

ⅩⅩⅩⅦ I saw red evening through the rain

ⅩⅩⅩⅧ THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS：Three yellow slaves were set to swing

ⅩⅩⅩⅨ As one who having wandered all night long

ⅩL PRAISE AND PRAYER：I have been well，I have been ill

ⅩLⅠ JOHN CAVALIER：These are your hills，John Cavalier．

ⅩLⅡ THE IRON STEED：In our black stable by the sea

ⅩLⅢ Of where or how，I nothing know

PIECES IN LALLAN

Ⅰ TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS：I send to you，commissioners

Ⅱ TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE：The wind may blaw the lee-lang way

Ⅲ TO CHARLES BAXTER：Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green

Ⅳ TO THE SAME：An＇ Johnie＇s deid．The mair＇s the pity!

UNDERWOODS

BOOK Ⅰ： IN ENGLISH

Ⅰ ENVOY：Go，little book，and wish to all

Ⅱ A SONG OF THE ROAD：The gauger walked with willing foot

Ⅲ THE CANOE SPEAKS：On the great streams the ships may go

Ⅳ It is the season now to go

Ⅴ THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL：A naked house，a naked moor

Ⅵ A VISIT FROM THE SEA：Far from the loud sea beaches

Ⅶ TO A GARDENER：Friend，in my mountain-side demesne

Ⅷ TO MINNIE WITH A HAND-GLASS：A picture-frame for you to fill

Ⅸ TO K．DE M．：A lover of the moorland bare

Ⅹ TO N．V．DE G．S．：The unfathomable sea，and time，and tears

Ⅺ TO WILL H．LOW：Youth now flees on feathered foot

Ⅻ TO MRS WILL H．LOW：Even in the bluest noonday of July

ⅩⅢ TO H．F．BROWN：I sit and wait a pair of oars

ⅩⅣ TO ANDREW LANG：Dear Andrew，with the brindled hair

ⅩⅤ ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI：In ancient tales，O friend，thy spirit dwelt

ⅩⅥ TO W．E．HENLEY：The year runs through her phases；rain and sun

ⅩⅦ HENRY JAMES：Who comes to-night？We ope the doors in vain．

ⅩⅤⅢ THE MIRROR SPEAKS：Where the bells peal far at sea

ⅩⅨ KATHARINE：We see you as we see a face

ⅩⅩ TO F．J．S．：I read，dear friend，in your dear face

ⅩⅪ REQUIEM：Under the wide and starry sky

ⅩⅫ THE CELESTIAL SURGEON：If I have faltered more or less

ⅩⅩⅢ OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS：Out of the sun，out of the blast

ⅩⅩⅣ Not yet，my soul，these friendly fields desert

ⅩⅩⅤ It is not yours，O mother，to complain

ⅩⅩⅥ THE SICK CHILD：O mother，lay your hand on my brow!

ⅩⅩⅦ IN MEMORIAM F．A．S．：Yet，O stricken heart，remember，O remember

ⅩⅩⅧ TO MY FATHER：Peace and her huge invasion to these shores

ⅩⅩⅨ IN THE STATES：With half a heart I wander here

ⅩⅩⅩ A PORTRAIT：I am a kind of farthing dip

ⅩⅩⅪ Sing clearlier，Muse，or evermore be still

ⅩⅩⅫ A CAMP：The bed was made，the room was fit

ⅩⅩⅩⅢ THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS：We travelled in the print of olden wars

ⅩⅩⅩⅣ SKERRYVORE：For love of lovely words，and for the sake

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ SKERRYVORE：THE PARALLEL：Here all is sunny，and when the truant gull

ⅩⅩⅩⅥ My house，I say．But hark to the sunny doves

ⅩⅩⅩⅦ My body which my dungeon is

ⅩⅩⅩⅤⅢ Say not of me that weakly I declined

BOOK Ⅱ：IN SCOTS

Ⅰ THE MAKER TO POSTERITY：Far ＇yont amang the years to be

Ⅱ ILLE TERRARUM：Frace nirly，nippin＇，Eas＇lan＇ breeze

Ⅲ When aince Aprile has fairly come

Ⅳ A MILE AN＇ A BITTOCK：A mile an＇ a bittock，a mile or twa

Ⅴ A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN：The clinkum-clank o＇ Sabbath bells

Ⅵ THE SPAEWIFE：O，I wad like to ken－to the beggar-wife says I－

Ⅶ THE BLAST－1875：It＇s rainin＇．Weet＇s the gairden sod

Ⅷ THE COUNTERBLAST－1886：My bonny man，the warld，it＇s true

Ⅸ THE COUNTERBLAST IRONICAL：It＇s strange that God should fash to frame

Ⅹ THEIR LAUREATE TO AN ACADEMY CLASS DINNER CLUB：Dear Thamson class，whaure＇er I gang

Ⅺ EMBRO HIE KIRK：The Lord Himsel＇ in former days

Ⅻ THE SCOTMAN＇S PRETURN FROM ABROAD：In mony a foreign pairt I＇ve been

ⅩⅢ Late in the nicht in bed I lay

ⅩⅣ MY CONSCIENCE!：Of a＇ the ills that flesh can fear

ⅩⅤ TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN：By Lyne and Tyne，by Thames and Tees

ⅩⅥ It＇s an owercome sooth for age an＇ youth

BALLADS

THE SONG OF RAHERO

THE FEAST OF FAMINE

TICONDEROGA

HEATHER ALE

CHRISTMAS AT SEA

SONGS OF TRAVEL

Ⅰ THE VAGABOND：Give to me the life I love

Ⅱ YOUTH AND LOVE－Ⅰ：Once only by the garden gate

Ⅲ YOUTH AND LOVE－Ⅱ：To the heart of youth the world is a highway-side．

Ⅳ In dreams，unhappy，I behold you stand

Ⅴ She rested by the Broken Brook

Ⅵ The infinite shining heavens

Ⅶ MADRIGAL：Plain as the glistering planets shine

Ⅷ To you，let snow and roses

Ⅸ Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams

Ⅹ I know not how it is with you－

Ⅺ I will make you brooches and toys for your delight

Ⅻ WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE：Berried brake and reedy island

ⅩⅢ DITTY：The cock shall crow

ⅩⅣ MATER TRIUMPHANS：Son of my woman＇s body，you go，to the drum and fife

ⅩⅤ Bright is the ring of words

ⅩⅥ In the highlands，in the country places

ⅩⅦ TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE：Home no more home to me，whither must I wander？

ⅩⅧ WINTER：In rigorous hours，when down the iron lane

ⅩⅨ The stormy evening closes now in vain

ⅩⅩ TO DR HAKE：In the belovèd hour that ushers day

ⅩⅪ TO SIDNEY COLVIN：I knew thee strong and quiet like the hills

ⅩⅫ The morning drum-call on my eager ear

ⅩⅩⅢ I have trod the upward and the downward slope

ⅩⅩⅣ He hears with gladdened heart the thunder

ⅩⅩⅤ Farewell，fair day and fading light!

ⅩⅩⅥ IF THIS WERE FAITH：God，if this were enough

ⅩⅩⅦ MY WIFE：Trusty，dusky，vivid，true

ⅩⅩⅧ TO THE MUSE：Resign the rhapsody，the dream

ⅩⅩⅨ TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS：Since long ago，a child at home

ⅩⅩⅩ TO KALAKAUA：The Silver Ship，my King－that was her name

ⅩⅩⅪ TO PRINCESS KAIULANI：Forth from her land to mine she goes

ⅩⅩⅫ TO MOTHER MARYANNE：To see the infinite pity of this place

ⅩⅩⅩⅢ IN MEMORIAM E．H．：I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare

ⅩⅩⅩⅣ TO MY WIFE：Long must elapse ere you behold again

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ TO MY OLD FAMILIARS：Do you remember－can we e＇er forget？－

ⅩⅩⅩⅥ The tropics vanish，and meseems that I

ⅩⅩⅩⅦ TO S．C．：I heard the pulse of the besieging sea

ⅩⅩⅩⅧ THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA

ⅩⅩⅩⅨ THE WOODMAN：In all the grove，nor stream nor bird

ⅩL TROPIC RAIN：As the single pang of the blow，when the metal is mingled well

ⅩLⅠ AN END OF TRAVEL：Let now your soul in this substantial world

ⅩLⅡ We uncommiserate pass into the night

ⅩLⅢ THE LAST SIGHT：Once more I saw him．In the lofty room

ⅩLⅣ Sing me a song of a lad that is gone

ⅩLⅤ TO S．R．CROCKETT：Blows the wind today，and the sun and the rain are flying

ⅩLⅥ EVENSONG：The embers of the day are red

POEMS 1880-1894

Ⅰ ALCAICS TO H．F．BROWN：Brave lads in olden musical centuries

Ⅱ TALES OF ARABIA：Yes，friend，I own these tales of Arabia

Ⅲ Still I love to rhyme，and still more，rhyming，to wander

Ⅳ Flower god，god of the spring，beautiful，bountiful

Ⅴ HORACE，BOOK Ⅱ，ODE Ⅲ：Where the pine and the shivering poplar

Ⅵ LINES FOR H．F．BROWN：Yes，I remember，and still remember wailing

Ⅶ TRANSLATIONS FROM MARTIAL

EPITAPHIUM EROTII

Here lies Erotion，whom at six years old

Mother and sire，to you do I commend

DE EROTIO PUELLA

This girl was sweeter than the song of swans

IN MAXIMUM

Wouldst thou be free？I think it not，indeed

DE COENATIONE MICAE

Look round：You see a little supper room

AD OLUM

Call me not rebel，though in what I sing

AD QUINTILIANUM

O chief director of the growing race

AD PISCATOREM

For these are sacred fishes all

DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS

My Martial owns a garden，famed to please

AD MARTIALEM

God knows，my Martial，if we two could be

AN IMITATION，PINDARIS CAUSA

Lo，in thy green enclosure here

AD NEPOTEM

O Nepos，twice my neighbour (since at home

DE M．ANTONIO

Now Antonius，in a smiling age

IN LUPUM

Beyond the gates，you gave a farm to till

IN CHARIDEMUM

You Charidemus，who my cradle swung

DE LIGURRA

You fare，Ligurra－above all，you long－

Ⅷ As in their flight the birds of song

Ⅸ TO MRS MACMORLAND：Im Schnee der Alpen－so it runs

Ⅹ Come，my beloved，hear from me

Ⅺ Since years ago for evermore

Ⅻ Far over seas an island is

ⅩⅢ If I could arise and travel away

ⅩⅣ Now bare to the beholder＇s eye

ⅩⅤ Men are Heaven＇s piers；they evermore

ⅩⅥ Fixed is the doom；and to the last of years

ⅩⅦ So live，so love，so use that fragile hour

ⅩⅧ TO MRS E．F．STRICKLAND：The freedom and the joy of days

ⅩⅨ FOR RICHMOND＇S GARDEN WALL：When Thomas set this tablet here

ⅩⅩ TO FREDERICK LOCKER：Not roses to the rose，I trow

ⅩⅪ TO MASTER ANDREW LANG：You，that are much a fisher in the pool

ⅩⅫ Fair Isle at Sea－thy lovely name

ⅩⅩⅢ THE FAMILY

Ⅰ High as my heart!－the quip be mine

Ⅱ Man，child or woman，none from her

Ⅲ About my fields，in the broad sun

Ⅳ Tall as a guardsman，pale as the east at dawn

Ⅴ What glory for a boy of ten

Ⅵ The old lady (so they say) but I

Ⅶ I meanwhile in the populous house apart

Ⅷ These rings，O my beloved pair

ⅩⅩⅣ Light foot and tight foot

ⅩⅩⅤ TO THE STORMY PETREL：Ever perilous

ⅩⅩⅥ I，whom Apollo sometime visited

ⅩⅩⅦ As with heaped bees at hiving time

DEDICATIONS AND POEMS FROM BOOKS

Ⅰ TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER：If sailor tales to sailor tunes

Ⅱ PIRATE DITTY：Fifteen men on the Dead Man＇s Chest－

Ⅲ THE SONG OF THE SWORD OF ALAN：This is the song of the sword of Alan

Ⅳ TO VIRGIL AND DORA WILLIAMS：Here，from the forelands of the tideless sea

Ⅴ TO NELLY SANCHEZ：Go，little book－the ancient phrase

Ⅵ TO H．C．BUNNER：You know the way to Arcady

Ⅶ TO KATHARINE DE MATTOS：Bells upon the city are ringing in the night

Ⅷ TO MY WIFE：I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn

LIGHT VERSE

Ⅰ For laughing I very much vote

Ⅱ Here he comes，big with Statistics

Ⅲ TO CHARLES BAXTER：Blame me not that this epistle

Ⅳ NE SIT ANCILLAE TIBI AMOR PUDORI：There＇s just a twinkle in your eye

Ⅴ POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION：Whether we like it，or don＇t

Ⅵ BROWNING：Browning makes the verses

Ⅶ ON AN INLAND VOYAGE：Who would think，herein to look

Ⅷ DEDICATION：To her，for I must still regard her

Ⅸ ON SOME GHOSTLY COMPANIONS AT A SPA：That was an evil day when I

Ⅹ BRASHEANNA：We found him first as in the dells of May

Ⅺ TO A．G．DEW-SMITH：Figure me to yourself，I pray－

Ⅻ Long time I lay in little ease

ⅩⅢ My wife and I，in our romantic cot

ⅩⅣ At morning on the garden seat

ⅩⅤ Last night we had a thunderstorm in style．

ⅩⅥ TO TIME：God of the business man，to thee

ⅩⅦ FRAGMENT：Thou strainest through the mountain fern

ⅩⅧ BURLESQUE SONNET：Thee，Mackintosh，artificer of light

ⅩⅨ RHYMES TO HENLEY

Ⅰ O Henley，in my hours of ease

Ⅱ Dear Henley，with a pig＇s snout on

Ⅲ My indefatigable pen

Ⅳ I had companions，I had friends

Ⅴ All men are rot：but there are two－

Ⅵ When I was sick and safe in gaol

Ⅶ My letters fail，I learn with grief，to please

Ⅷ We dwell in these melodious days

Ⅸ TRIOLETS

1 Si je l＇aime，ce Montépin

2 Ce que j＇adore chez Xavier

3 Les romans sont pas mal lichés

Ⅹ A LYTLE JAPE OF TUSHERIE：

The pleasant river gushes

ⅩⅩ EPITAPHS

Ⅰ Here lies a man who never did

Ⅱ The angler rose，he took his rod．

Ⅲ ON HIMSELF：He may have been this and that

Ⅳ ON HIMSELF AT THE PIANO：Where is now the Père Martini？

ⅩⅪ THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS：The jolly English Yellowboy

ⅩⅫ TO HENRY JAMES：Adela，Adela，Adela Chart

ⅩⅩⅢ ATHOLE BROSE：Willie an＇ I cam doun by Blair

POEMS FOR CHILDREN A CHILD＇S GARDEN OF VERSES

TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM：For the long nights you lay awake

Ⅰ BED IN SUMMER：In winter I get up at night

Ⅱ A THOUGHT：It is very nice to think

Ⅲ AT THE SEASIDE：When I was down beside the sea

Ⅳ YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT：All night long and every night

Ⅴ WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN：A child should always say what＇s true

Ⅵ RAIN：The rain is raining all around

Ⅶ PIRATE STORY：Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing

Ⅷ FOREIGN LANDS：Up into the cherry tree

Ⅸ WINDY NIGHTS：Whenever the moon and stars are set

Ⅹ TRAVEL：I should like to rise and go

Ⅺ SINGING：Of speckled eggs the birdie sings

Ⅻ LOOKING FORWARD：When I am grown to man＇s estate

ⅩⅢ A GOOD PLAY：We built a ship upon the stairs

ⅩⅣ WHERE GO THE BOATS？：Dark brown is the river

ⅩⅤ AUNTIE＇S SKIRTS：Whenever Auntie moves around

ⅩⅥ THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE：When I was sick and lay a-bed

ⅩⅦ THE LAND OF NOD：From breakfast on through all the day

ⅩⅧ MY SHADOW：I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me

ⅩⅨ SYSTEM：Every night my prayers I say

ⅩⅩ A GOOD BOY：I woke before the morning，I was happy all the day

ⅩⅪ ESCAPE AT BEDTIME：The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out

ⅩⅫ MARCHING SONG：Bring the comb and play upon it!

ⅩⅩⅢ THE COW：The friendly cow all red and white

ⅩⅩⅣ HAPPY THOUGHT：The world is so full of a number of things

ⅩⅩⅤ THE WIND：I saw you toss the kites on high

ⅩⅩⅥ KEEPSAKE MILL：Over the borders，a sin without pardon

ⅩⅩⅦ GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN：Children，you are very little

ⅩⅩⅤⅢ FOREIGN CHILDREN：Little Indian，Sioux or Crow