C O N T E N T S Moschus and Bion Heavenly Pity My Lady Streams of Faith Cloud Pictures Sweet Vassalage Th e Morning Land Shelley Fairer than Rose and Lily A Benefactor Walk not by Sight Margaret Blood Guiltiness Dreamland Unrequited Love Whence and Whither Other Worlds than Ours On My Word A lone Confide Wh en from Creative Toil Th e Ravage of Time In Absence Th e Golden Rule Th e Starry Heavens ’ Love s "ealousy Ideal H eights ’ Life s Pilgrimage Crowned with "oy Th e Flight of th e Spirit CONTENTS Transmuting Time Reproach Me Not Perple"ed by Doubt Bygone Days Narcissus Th e Veiled Portal Caesar What Brow so Fair as Thine Christmas Morn Freewill and Destiny Red Rose ’ Death leads our Loved Ones to Heaven s Who Knows Th e Timidity of Love Hearken Again Shakespeare Absent Returned Truth Long Sought Th e Fairest Fair ’ God s Ways are Dark ’ Life s Glad Spring Isabel Pessimism A Banquet of Delight ’ Had I th e Courtly Sydney s Art Thy Providence E"tend Poesy Enigmas A Dream "uestion Mourn not for M e My Lady May ’ Love s Witchery Margaret Sunset Forlorn Mutation Marie Ideal Beauty ’ "amie s on th e Sea Desolate When all is Dark Around Sun Worship My Pretty Sweeting Ailsa Rock Le t th e Past U nheeded Go Omar Khayyam My Golden Dreams Life Weariness Belinda Th e Old Statesman In Absence Skylark Thinking of Days Departed Almighty Love How o How ar How r r L ne , D k , D ea y Th e Sounding Title Great Th e Sun yet bears Tyrannic Sway Ye shall Reap as ye have Sown Disconsolate Sleep m "nt r n Al ighty God E h o ed on High Wasteful Nature I know a Maiden Fair and Sweet Burial in Mid -Ocean CONTENTS 0 Shall we Never Meet Sweet Converse Laura to M e Th e U nseen Universe Ballade of Youth Happy Bygone Days God in Nature Lovely Isabel Th e Light of Truth Milicent God is Love ’ Belinda s Charms To Burns Memories Th e Creed of Many To Dream of You ’ Life s Warfare and Defeat Me "How th e m n e ts Ah , "uick Mo Fly Keats Alice Lee Turkish Atrocities Fairer far than M ay Poesy What if I Should Steal a Kiss Th e Law of Love Spring Ministering Spirits ’ Th e Heaven s Starred Face Do H eavenly Powers regard us from on ' Love s Laughing Spor t ’ Falsehood s Gilded Lies A Song of Praise CONTENTS Th e Poets What if I Should Steal a Kiss Prayer Who could th ink when first we met Our Pastor Winter and Spri ng t er O t er Whi h , Whi h O r I cr to e Lo d , y Th e Annette Of One Eternal Power speak all th e Creeds Love and Languishment Faith and Works a a r ri e My L dy F i , A s Chan ticleer Molly Bawn Tim e Bringeth Change When Hope Lies Dead Is Oblivion th e End Spring Th e Buried Past Violet and Lily Fair eace on art wi to Men P E h , Good ll Beyond th e Veil Is there Mirth in Heaven ? My "ueen of Beauty Th e Spirit Giveth Life A Willing Slave Deceitful Hope Falling Leaves of Life Some Other Day ’ Content is Life s best Treasure Complete in Thine Own Loveliness Australia A Dilemma Modest Worth CONTENTS 0 Let us Love while it is May Th e Unseen Land What Melody is that I Hear me th e er of ift Ti , Giv G s When last I saw my Love A Tender Song I fain would Sing Mat ter and Spirit Entreaty O Lord of Light and Truth Divided Allegiance Margaret Th e Gift of Song Old Heroic Days Why Mourn for th e Dead ’ Tossed on Life s Dark and Stormy Sea In Trance they say Seers and Prophets Th e Agnostic Enigmas MOSCHUS AND BION S S f a MO CHU o Syracuse thus w iled his woe, ’ a r and Tho f i fragile flowers yield to fate, a t e- These will another ye r germinate, ’ And they in beauty s pride again will blow ’ i But mortals, when by death s cold hand la d low, Heaven ’s breath will ne’er again reanimate " a The wise and good, the valiant and the gre t Alike to dust and dark dishonour go . This mournful strain sang he in sad lament For Bion dead "Bion, a singer sweet Of field and fleecy fold "but we m ay sing A blither song, a song of pure content, Who know that souls set free, on pinions fleet Ascend to God, and that death hath no sting. HEAVENLY PITY STEEPED in the mud and m ire of circumstance ’ Altho thou art, hide not thy face in fear, ’ As tho I frowned on thee with brow austere t I e . Poor soul, hink not look on thee askanc e Go, change thy soil d raiment, and advance Toward my golden gate : soon shalt thou hear m Seraphic elody fall on thine ear, And heavenly joy shall ligh t thy countenance . m So gently urmurs Love Divine, to all i ’ Who, on l fe s miry way, despairing fall " Of hope abandoned, sad, and sick of heart So greeteth He each worn and weary one, ’ Who, by fate s enmity, seems all undone, art . And whispers, Be of cheer, for mine thou MY LADY I DO not marvel that in mute surprise You gaze upon my lady . Is not she A r h s fair as Cyp is, w en from out the sea She rose with glamour gleaming in her eyes, And robed in blushing beauty’s fairest guise ? Does it not seem as if the Graces three H e ad met and said, Com , let us all agree ? To make this lady lovely, sweet, and wise Yet all this outward beauty you behold Is far surpassed by that which is unseen e e th e The tend rn ss of heart, soul serene, The unobtrusive virtues manifold m n Enough, the countless char s that grace my quee , For lack of language must remain untold . STREAMS OF FAITH ’ THRo this doubt-clouded clime flow many streams Of faith, and by those living waters sink - On pious knees, care laden souls to drink " e e R freshed, then do they slumber, and have dr ams Of paradise, all radiant with beams Of love and light . Many there be who think m All brooks, but one, i pure from brink to brink, And that Infinite Love from Death redeems ' uafl Not those who q alien waters . Day By day are precious boons abundant sent To all from God . 0 will He then dismay Poor souls with sullen brows of discontent Wh o con fidin l ? "" look to Him g y Nay nay h ow m His of pro ise over all is bent . CLOUD PICTURES THE azure vault o"f heaven with splendour glows This pious morn airily and light, Along the far horizon colours bright Are lavished, opal, amethyst, and rose, a In cloudy c pes and archipelagoes, r e - Where seem to ise h aven kissing Alps, in white r m a a : A rayed, and of i me sur ble height t . A scene of beau y,"locked in sweet repose O blazonry divine consummate skill, Made manifest in glories pictured there . I In breathless admiration lost, gaze, Adoring Him who doth creation fill e a With signs and tok ns of His love and c re, And who in beauty so His m ind displays . SWEET VASSALAGE K " O HAR in yonder myrtle shade, the dove In tones caressing woos his gentle mate I As tender and as true shall be, love, r To you my hea t and soul are dedicate . t I From fai h and fealty shall not swerve, Bu t willing homage pay you evermore My pride and highest boast shall be to serve ou I d e t r . And honour you "y , ares , ado e No bondage hard and heavy do I bear " e r I e In golden f tte s bound, liv content 0 e ou r r For my gentle qu en , y p oudly wea ’ Enthralling beauty s fairest ornament " From so sweet vassalage wh o would be free ? A crown would I resign your slave to be . THE MORNING LAND ’ ER f r d O sapphire deeps aith sees a shining st an , Whose beauty far excels our fairest clime r m When buds and blossoms b eak in dewy pri e, And to magnificence the rose is fanned ’ By zephyr s wings : he sees the morning land From this low bank and sh ifting shoal of time m m The heavenly eadows where, in thought subli e, - White robed immortals wander hand in hand . " " " r Faith cries, Rejoice rejoice of this be su e, To that unclouded clim e ye are addressed e Wher , in the smile of God, the good and pure woe r Abide : by want and no more opp essed, W m e ith the , at last, y shall find blissful rest, " And peace that shall for evermore endure . SHELLEY As sed love and ruth his gentle soul posses , So was his lyre to sweeter music strung Than melodies by other poets sung - s an .