CONTENTS To E. Fitzgerald Tiresias The Wreck Despair The Ancient Sage The Flight Tomorrow The Spinster's Sweet-Arts Balin and Balan Prologue The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava Epilogue To Virgil The Dead Prophet Early Spring Prefatory Poem to my Brother's Sonnets 'Frater Ave Atque Vale' Helen's Tower Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe Epitaph on General Gordon Epitaph on Caxton To the Duke of Argyll Hands All Round Freedom To H. R. H. Princess Beatrice 'Old Poets Foster'd under Friendlier Skies' Excerpt: To E. Fitzgerald Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange, Where once I tarried for a while, Glance at the wheeling Orb of change, And greet it with a kindly smile; Whom yet I see as there you sit Beneath your sheltering garden-tree, And watch your doves about you flit, And plant on shoulder, hand and knee, Or on your head their rosy feet, As if they knew your diet spares Whatever moved in that full sheet Let down to Peter at his prayers;