| Title | First line | Notes |
| 1881 | ||
| The Night Before | I sneered when I heard the old priest complain | ![]() |
| Job’s Wife | Curse now thy God and die, for all is done. | ![]() |
| Haste | So the end came | ![]() |
| My Hat | A youth but late returned from School, | ![]() |
| The First Day Back | The first day back, ay bitter cold it was. | ![]() |
| Unpublished Fragment of Pope | Our friend just hears that doggrel writing pays | ![]() |
| Unpublished Fragment of Shelley | Rather than this should happen I would see | ![]() |
| Chivalry | Is a woman but man’s plaything, fairest woman in her pride? | ![]() |
| Crossing the Rubicon | A cry in the silent night, | ![]() |
| Disappointment | One day whilst full of burning thought, | ![]() |
| The Excursion | My college cap is perched upon my head, | ![]() |
| Reckoning | Count we the Cost—the sun is setting fast, | ![]() |
| Waytinge 1 | Doubte not that Pleasure cometh in the End,— | ![]() |
| To You (A reminiscence) | A memory of our sojourn by the Sea, | ![]() |
| For a Picture (Venus Meretrix) | This much am I to you— | ![]() |
| Pro Tem | Make we a fire in the dark | ![]() |
| Cave | Lilies be plenty with us, | ![]() |
| Index Malorum | The wild waves beat upon the shore, | ![]() |
| A Mistake | Of the two hundred fellows at School | ![]() |
| An Auto-Da-Fe | And did you love me then so much | ![]() |
| The Page’s Message (The Message) | Spare neither lie, nor deed, nor gold— | ![]() |
| Told in the Dormitory | The merry devil of some idle mood | ![]() |
| Waytinge 2 | Waytinge! wearilie waytinge, | ![]() |
| Two Players | Two Players playing games against the Gods. | ![]() |
| A Question (By the Sea) | Bring me a message of hope, O sea! | ![]() |
| The Page’s Song | Spring-time, shall it bring thee ease | ![]() |
| The Story of Paul Vaugel | This is the story of Paul Vaugel | ![]() |
| Conspiracy | Two that shall plotte together | ![]() |
| Song (For Two Voices) | I bound his soul by a word and an Oath | ![]() |
| The Second Wooing (A Visitation) | There came to me One at midnight, on golden pinions, and said: | ![]() |
| Brighton Beach | A flash in your eye for a minute— | ![]() |
| Resolve | I said to myself—’I will dream | ![]() |
| Song for Two Voices (Song for Music) | Follow and faint not, if the road be long | ![]() |
| L’Envoi | Rhymes, or of grief, or of sorrow | ![]() |
| 1881/2 | ||
| Parting | Hot kisses on red lips that burn— | ![]() |
| Rejection | We will lay this thing here— | ![]() |
| 1882 | ||
| I sit in the Midst | I sit in the midst of my study | ![]() |
| How It Seemed to Us | A grey flat lying out against the sea | ![]() |
| Les Amours Faciles | A woe that lasts for a little space | ![]() |
| A Dedication | What have I more to give thee, who have given thee all my heart— | ![]() |
| Change | A changed life and a changed hope | ![]() |
| A Dominant Power | A strong man pacing over burning sands | ![]() |
| A Profession of Faith | Each day watched die together binds us fast | ![]() |
| Sir Galahad | Sharpened sword at saddle bow | ![]() |
| The Quest | In years long past we met awhile, and vowed | ![]() |
| Greeting | What comfort can I send thee, sweet | ![]() |
| The Trouble of Curtiss who Lodged in the Basement | Ever so little to show for it | ![]() |
| Romance and Reality | Was it water in the woodlands | ![]() |
| The Knight Errant | Ridest a light of chivalry, | ![]() |
| The letter written up in the attic | I bear a mark from your hand, my love | ![]() |
| Two Lives | Two lives, one sweet and one most sad I lead | ![]() |
| After the promise | The day is most fair, the cheery wind | ![]() |
| In the beginning | Woe is, and pain, and men grow old thereby | ![]() |
| A Promise | Thy woe is mine—for thou hast held my heart | ![]() |
| Where the Shoe Pinches | The pain of parting—once and once again | ![]() |
| An Ending | Oh Dearest! The best I have ever written | ![]() |
| The Wooing of the Sword | What will ye give me for a heart ? | ![]() |
| I believe | Oh Love, what need is it that thou shouldst die? | ![]() |
| Discovery | We found him in the woodlands—she and I— | ![]() |
| Mon Accident! | Child of sin, and a broken vow, | ![]() |
| After the Fever | Let the worst come now, and I shall not fear | ![]() |
| His Consolation (Their Consolation) | Alas! Alas! It is a tale so old— | ![]() |
| A Tryst | The night comes down in rain, grey garmented— | ![]() |
| The Attainment (Escaped) | Peace for a season—in the heart of me | ![]() |
| Parting (In the Hall) | The last five minutes were worth the price— | ![]() |
| The Reaping | Hush—What appeal | ![]() |
| A Craven | I who was crowned king am now bereft | ![]() |
| Understanding | One time when ashen clouds received the sun | ![]() |
| A Voyage | Our galley chafes against the Quay | ![]() |
| Severance (Woking Necropolis) | Plight my troth to the dead, Love? | ![]() |
| What the Young Man’s Heart Said to Him | Break, ah Break! | ![]() |
| Satiety | Last year’s wreath upon our brow | ![]() |
| Confession | Is not the dawning very slow to rise— | ![]() |
| Lo! I am Crowned | Lo! I am Crowned | ![]() |
| El Dorado | A golden place—whose portals shine | ![]() |
| The Sign of the Flower (The Sign of the Withered Violet) | Wait for a little—and if my woe | ![]() |
Uncollected Poems from Schooldays
