TABLE OF CONTENTS Prose Poet of the fabled West ….. i PAGI The rolling moorland russet-dun….. 4 Nestor of Poesy, whose utterance sage … .10 Lord in this land and lord in many lands . . 13 Last left of the mortal Immortals, art thou too taken at last 1 7 Green natural cloister of our Academe . … 20 Morn of the year, of day and May the . . prime 21 Richard of Chichester, so ran the style…. 23 Time was I yearned for happiness …. 24 Twas that sweet moment of the year…. 25 Mistress Rachel, Mistress Ruth 26 Dear friends, who from your aery home, … . 29 To the bride 32 Dear Lady, take this little song . . vii . 33 Table of Contents Whilome I wrote a little song . ., Dawne to Darke … Works of earth and words of air . I wandered by the shining rivers side . Take, friend of all thats good and fair . Dear the gray walls hid in the greenwood side You asked me, friend, to send a Sonnet Daniel, well-lettered son of Somerset Dear second home beyond the misty sea To suffer or to succour, tis the school ., Nightingale poet, all too delicate . Swept by the breaths of memory … Sick Autumn spreads his magic tints . sweet to hear and feel their strife Dark against the sky….. Thou who hast seen for once and all the vision Ay me ay me 1 am a modest Violet … The swallow is here, is here how sweet … Renowned their lot and fair their fame . viii Table of Contents Beloved she moved among us ….. 69 Him, Parmeno, I reckon happiest …. 70 Whenever thou wouldst know thy real worth . . 71 That craft, my friends, you there behold … 72 Tully, of all Romes progeny ….. 74 Dear Martial, if with you I could 75 Beneath this rising mound entombed is laid… 76 Who never ate withtears his bread . -77 Twas a cloudless April morrow . J . . 78 Falleth a shooting star 79 IX NOTE. Some of the pieces which follow are reprinted by permission from the Spectator Athenxum and Guardian and from Macmillans and the Oxford Magazine in which theyfirst appeared. The greater number of them formed the collection issuea in a small limited edition in the spring of this year 1897 by Mr. Daniel of Worcester College, Oxford, from his private press, but afew are now printedfor the first time. XI