England and Yesterday

A Book of Short Poems

LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. On First Entering Westminster Abbey Fog Saint Peter-ad-Vincula Strikers in Hyde Park Changes in the Temple The Lights of London Doves In the Reading-Room of the British Museum Sunday Chimes in the City A Porch in Belgravia York Stairs In the Docks OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE BETWEEN 1890 AND 1895. The Tow-Path The Old Dial of Corpus Ad Antiquarium Rooks in New College Gardens On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford On the Same (continued) A December Walk Undertones at Magdalen Port Meadow Martyrs' Memorial A Last View Retrieval LYRICS. A Ballad of Kenelm Two Irish Peasant Songs In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm To a Child In a Perpendicular Church A Seventeenth-Century Song Columba and the Stork The Chantry April in Govilon On Leaving Winchester On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George's Chapel Of Joan's Youth Passing the Minster The Yew-Tree Shropshire Landscape The Graham Tartan to a Graham In a London Street Athassel Abbey Romans in Dorset LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES. To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey [vii]For Izaak Walton A Footnote to a Famous Lyric A Memory of a Breconshire Valley Writ in my Lord Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion" A Last Word on Shelley An Epitaph for William Hazlitt Emily Brontë Pax Paganica Valediction: R. L. S., 1894