"With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature." -Alice Meynell Contents: WINDS AND WATERS Ceres' Runaway Wells Rain The Tow Path The Tethered Constellations Rushes and Reeds IN A BOOK ROOM A Northern Fancy Pathos Anima Pellegrina! A Point of Biography The Honours of Mortality Composure The Little Language A Counterchange Harlequin Mercutio COMMENTARIES Laughter The Rhythm of Life Domus Angusta Innocence and Experience The Hours of Sleep Solitude Decivilized WAYFARING The Spirit of Place Popular Burlesque Have Patience, Little Saint At Monastery Gates The Sea Wall ARTS Tithonus Symmetry and Incident The Plaid The Flower Unstable Equilibrium Victorian Caricature The Point of Honour "THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT" The Colour of Life The Horizon In July Cloud Shadows WOMEN AND BOOKS The Seventeenth Century Mrs. Dingley Prue Mrs. Johnson Madame Roland "THE DARLING YOUNG" Fellow Travellers with a Bird The Child of Tumult The Child of Subsiding Tumult The Unready That Pretty Person Under the Early Stars The Illusion of Historic Time