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CONTENTS MM RAVENNA 1878 1 POEMS 1881 H41as . .... ELEUTHERIA 21 Sonnet to Liberty...... 25 Ave Imperatrix g5 To Milton 32 Louis Napoleon 33 Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria...... 84 Quantum Mutata 35 Libertatis Sacra Fames 3, Theoretikos 37 THE GARDEN OF EROS 39 ROSA MYSTICA Requiescat 57 POEMS Ml Sonnet on approaching Italy 68 San Miniato ...... 59 Ave Maria Gratia Plena .... 60 Italia Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa, 62 Rome Unvisited,63 Urbs Sacra Sterna 67 Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel Easter Day 69 E Tenebris 70 Vita Nuova 71 Madonna Mia 72 The New Helen 73 THE BURDEN OF ITYS 79 WIND FLOWERS Impression du Matin 101 Magdalen Walks 102 Athanasia 105 Serenade 109 Endymion 61 68 Ill La Bella Donna della mia Mente . . . 113 Chanson 115 CHARMIDE3 117 FLOWERS OF GOLD Impressions The Grave of Keats CONTENTS i. Les Silhouettes . . 155 ii. La Fuite de la Lune . . 156 Theocritus A Villanelle . 157 .158 In the Gold Room A . Harmony Ballade de . . Marguerite The Dole of the Kings Daughter . . . . 159 .160 .163 Amor Intellectualis 165 Santa Decca 166 A Vision 167 Impression de Voyage The Grave of Shelley 168 169 By the Arno 170 IMPRESSIONS DE THEATRE Fabien dei Franchi 175 Phedre 176 Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre i. Portia 177 ii. Queen Henrietta Mariu, . . . 178 Camma 179 PANTHEA 181 THE FOURTH MOVEMENT Impression At Verona, Le Reveillon . . .195 . 196 Apologia ...., . POEMS MM 197 Quia Multum Amavi 199 Silentium Amoris Her Voice My Voice Tedium Vite HUMANITAD FLOWER OF LOVE TAYKYniKPOS EPOS UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1876-1893 200 01 203 201 205 231 From Spring Days to Winter . . . 237 AtXtlOV, aiWOV 6t7T, TO 8 V VIKUTCO . . 239 The TrueKnowledge . . . . . 240 Lotus leaves 241 Wasted Days Impressions 244 i. Le Jardin 245 ii. La Mer .... 246 Under the Balcony 247 The Harlots House 249 Le Jardin des Tuileries .... 251 1 On the Sale by Auction of Keats Letters . Love 252 The New Remorse CONTENTS FACE 253 Fantaisies Dccoiatives i. Le Panneau . 254 Canzonet Symphony n. Les Ballons. . 256 257 in Yellow 259 In the Forest 260 To my Wife With a Copy ofmy Poems . 261 With a Copy of A House of Pomegranates 262 AN UNPUBLISHED POEM 1884 ToL. L 265 TRANSLATIONS 1875-1880 Chorus of Cloud Maidens .... 271 QprjvtpSia ....... 273 A Fragment from the Agamemnon of jEschylos 277 Sen Artysty or, the Artists Dream . . 281 THE SPHINX 1894 THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL 1898 XI 287 311 A HEAR RAVENNA ago I breathed the Italian air, And yet, methinks this northern Spring is fair, These fields made golden with the flower of March, The throstle singing on the feathered larch, The cawing rooks, the wood-doves fluttering by, The little clouds that race across the sky And fair the violets gentle drooping head, The primrose, pale for love uncomforted, The rose that burgeons on the climbing briar, The crocus-bed, that seems a moon of fire Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring And all the flowers of our English Spring, Fond snowdrops, and the bright- starred daffodil. Up starts the lark beside the murmuring mill, And breaks the gossamer- threads of early dew And down the river, like a flame of blue, Keen as an arrow flies the water-king, While the brown linnets in the greenwood sing. 8