Works

I

Here am I yet, another twelvemonth spent,
One-third departed of the mortal span,
Carrying on the child into the man,
Nothing into reality. Sails rent,
And rudder broken, reason impotent...

O happy they whose hearts receive
The implanted word with faith; believe
Because their fathers did before,
Because they learnt, and ask no more
High triumphs of convictions wrought,...

NAPOLEON.

Is it this, then, O world-warrior,
That, exulting, through the folds
Of the dark and cloudy barrier
Thine enfranchised eye beholds?
Is, when blessed hands relieve thee...

Thought may well be ever ranging,
And opinion ever changing,
Task-work be, though ill begun,
Dealt with by experience better;
By the law and by the letter
Duty done is duty done...

Beside me, in the car, she sat,
She spake not, no, nor looked to me
From her to me, from me to her,
What passed so subtly, stealthily?
As rose to rose that by it blows
Its interchanged aroma flings;...

In controversial foul impureness
The peace that is thy light to thee
Quench not: in faith and inner sureness
Possess thy soul and let it be.

No violence'perverse'persistent'...

In controversial foul impureness
The peace that is thy light to thee
Quench not: in faith and inner sureness
Possess thy soul and let it be.

No violence, perverse, persistent,...

Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;...

Say not, the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain;

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;...

Some future day when what is now is not,
When all old faults and follies are forgot,
And thoughts of difference passed like dreams away,
We'll meet again, upon some future day.
...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral

Nunc formosissimus annus
Ite me' felix quondam pecus, ite camen'.


I

Socii cratera coronant.
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A Long-Vacation Pastoral


II

Et certamen erat, Corydon cum Thyrside, magnum.

Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out from the mountains,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


III

Namque canebat uti

So in the golden morning they parted and went to the westward.
And in the cottage with Airlie and Hobbes remained the Tutor;...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


IV

Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error

So in the golden weather they waited. But Philip returned not....

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


IX
Arva, beata Petamus arva!

So on the morrow's morrow, with Term-time dread returning,
Philip returned to his books, and read, and remained at Oxford,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


V

Putavi
Stultus ego huic nostr' similem.

So in the cottage with Adam the pupils five together
Duly remained, and read, and looked no more for Philip,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VI

Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin.

Bright October was come, the misty-bright October,
Bright October was come to burn and glen and cottage;...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VII

Vesper adest, juvenes, consurgite: Vesper Olympo
Expectata diu vix tandem lumina tollit.
...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VIII

Jam veniet virgo, jam dicetur hymen'us.

But a revulsion again came over the spirit of Elspie,
When she thought of his wealth, his birth and education:...

Lo, here is God, and there is God!
Believe it not, O Man;
In such vain sort to this and that
The ancient heathen ran:
Though old Religion shake her head,
And say in bitter grief,...