Selected PoemsPreface Acknowledgments Table of Dates Further Reading
UNCOLLECTED POEMS, TO 1885
The Light-Keeper "The roadside lined with ragweed, the sharp hills" Spring-Song Duddingston "The whole day thro', in contempt and pity" "I sit up here at midnight" Dedication Epistle to Charles Baxter To Charles Baxter To Sydney "O dull, cold northern sky" Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudori To Ottilie "A little before me, and hark!" St. Martin's Summer "My brain swims empty and light" The Cruel Mistress Storm Stormy Nights Song at Dawn "I am a hunchback, yellow faced -" "Last night we had a thunderstorm in style" To Charles Baxter [in Lallan] To the Same (On the death of their common friend, Mr. John Adam...) "I saw red evening through the rain" "I who all the winter through" John Cavalier Alcaics to H. F. Brown Lines for H. F. Brown To Mrs. MacMorland Brasheanna "Since years ago for evermore"
Rhymes to W. E. Henley "Dear Henley, with a pig's snout on" "My letters fail, I learn with grief, to please" "We dwell in these melodious days"
Tales of Arabia "Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful" "Now bare to the beholder's eye"
Translations from Martial Epitaphium Erotii De M. Antonio De Liggura
MORAL EMBLEMS (1882)
Moral Emblems I I. "See how the children in the print" II. "Reader, your soul upraise to see" III. A Peak in Darien IV. "See in the print, how moved by whim" V. "Mark, printed on the opposing page"
Moral Emblems II I. "With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee" II. "The careful angler chose his nook" III. "The Abbot for a walk went out" IV. "The frozen peaks he once explored" V. "Industrious pirate! see him sweep"
FROM MORAL TALES [1882]
Robin and Ben: or, the Pirate and the Apothecary
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
To Alison Cunningham Bed in Summer A Thought At the Seaside Young Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain Pirate Story Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travel Singing Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats? Auntie's Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow System A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime Marchng Song The Cow Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The Sun's Travels The Lamplighter My Bed is a Boat The Moon The Swing Time to Rise Looking-Glass River Fairy-Bread From a Railway Carriage Winter Time The Hayloft Farewell to the Farm North-West Passage
The Child Alone The Unseen Playmate My Ship and I My Kingdom Picture Books in Winter My Treasures Block City The Land of Story-Books Armies in the Fire The Little Land
Garden Days Night and Day Nest Eggs The Flowers Summer Sun The Dumb Soldier Autumn Fires The Gardener Historical Associations
Envoys To Willie and Henrietta To My Mother To Auntie To Minnie To My Name-Child To Any Reader
FROM UNDERWOODS (1887)
Book One I. Envoy III. The Canoe Speaks V. The House Beautiful VI. To a Gardener IX. To K. de M. X. To N. V. de G. S. XII. To Mrs. Will H. Low XIII. To H. F. Brown XV. Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti XVI. To W. E. Henley XVIII. The Mirror Speaks XXI. Requiem XXVI. The Sick Child XXX. A Portrait XXXV. Skerryvore: The Parallel XXXVIII. "My body which my dungeon is"
Book Two - In Scots I. The Maker to Posterity II. Ille Terrarum III. "When aince Aprile has fairly come" IV. A Mile an' a Bittock V. A Lowden Sabbath Morn VI. The Spaewife VII. The Blast - 1875 VIII. The Counterblast - 1886 IX. The Counterblast Ironical X. Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club XI. Embro Hie Kirk XII. The Scotsman's Return from Abroad XIII. "Late in the nicht in bed I lay" XIV. My Conscience! XV. To Doctor John Brown XVI. "It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth"
FROM BALLADS (1890)
The Song of Rahero Ticonderoga Heather Ale Christmas at Sea
UNCOLLECTED POEMS, 1885-1894
The Song of the Sword of Alan The Bour-Tree Den To Katharine de Mattos The Fine Pacific Islands To Henry James The Family "As with heaped bees at hiving time" "Fixed is the doom; and to the last of years" To My Wife
FROM SONGS OF TRAVEL (1895)
I. The Vagabond II. Youth and Love IV. "In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand" V. "She rested by the Broken Brook" VI. "The infinite shining heavens" VIII. "To you, let snow and roses" IX. "Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams" XI. "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight" XII. We Have Loved of Yore XIV. Mater Triumphans XV. "Bright is the ring of words" XVI. "In the highlands, in the country places" XVII. To the Tune of Wandering Willie XVIII. Winter XXI. To Sidney Colvin XXII. "The morning drum-call on my eager ear" XXIII. "I have trod the upward and the downward slope" XXVI. If This Were Faith XXVIII. To the Muse XXXV. To My Old Familiars XXXVI. "The tropics vanish, and meseems that I" XXXVII. To S. C. XXXIX. The Woodman XL. Tropic Rain XLIII. The Last Sight XLIV. "Sing me a song of a lad that is gone" XLV. To S. R. Crockett XLVI. Evensong
Appendix: Note on Scots Language, from Underwoods Notes Glossary Index of Titles Index of First Lines
