of Oxford--

For a poem by Edith Sitwell from _The Mother_.

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTORY xi

THOMAS HARDY (1840- )
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 3
Going and Staying 4
The Man He Killed 4

ROBERT BRIDGES (1844- )
Winter Nightfall 5
Nightingales 7

ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881)
Ode 8

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
Invictus 10
The Blackbird 10
A Bowl of Roses 11
Before 11
Margaritae Sorori 12

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)
Summer Sun 13
Winter-Time 14
Romance 15
Requiem 16

ALICE MEYNELL (1850- )
A Thrush Before Dawn 16

FIONA MACLEOD (_William Sharp_) (1855-1905)
The Valley of Silence 18
The Vision 19

OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)
Requiescat 20
Impression du Matin 21

JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909)
A Ballad of Hell 22
Imagination 26

WILLIAM WATSON (1858- )
Ode in May 28
Estrangement 30
Song 31

FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
Daisy 32
To Olivia 34
An Arab Love-Song 35

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859- )
Reveille 36
When I Was One-and-Twenty 37
With Rue My Heart is Laden 38
To An Athlete Dying Young 38
"Loveliest of Trees" 39

DOUGLAS HYDE (1860