David’s lament over Saul
and Jonathan
the fiery furnace
Ruth and Naomi
the lilies of the field and
the fowls of the air
the good physician
the Sower
the Prodigal’s return
st. Mary Magdalen
IV. CHURCH FESTIVALS
A Christmas communion hymn
A Christmas carol of the Epiphany
A fourteenth-century carol
earth’s Easter
Easter day, 1915
the ascension
Whitsuntide
Harvest hymn
V. GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS
Father O’FLYNN
Lady Gwenny
old doctor Mack
to the memory of John Owen
saint Cuthbert
Alfred the great
sir Samuel Ferguson
“Men, not walls, make A
city”
Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener
inscription for A roll of Honour
in A public School
an epitaph
an intercessional answered
VI. PERSONAL AND VARIOUS
Let there be joy!
A holiday hymn
summer MORNING’S walk
snow-Stains
remembrance
sands of gold
the mourner
de PROFUNDIS
immortal hope
we had A child
by the bedside of A sick
child
he has come back
SPRING’S secrets
the lord’s leisure
spring is not dead
aim not too high
wild wine of nature
bridal invocation
the coming of sir Galahad
and A vision of the grail
ask what thou wilt
I. IRISH POEMS
THE ISLE OF THE HAPPY
(From the Early Irish)
Once when Bran, son of Feval, was with his warriors in his royal fort, they suddenly saw a woman in strange raiment upon the floor of the house. No one knew whence she had come or how she had entered, for the ramparts were closed. Then she sang these quatrains of Erin, the Isle of the Happy, to Bran while all the host were listening: