9780192840790

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

Acknowledgements

xxxvi

Chronology

xxxvii

Note on the Text

xxxix

POETRY

The Escorial

(5)

Aeschylus: Prometheus Desmotes

(1)

Il Mystico

(4)

A windy day in summer

(1)

A fragment of anything you like

(1)

A Vision of the Mermaids

(4)

Winter with the Gulf Stream

(1)

Spring and Death

(1)

(Fragments)

(1)

Fragments of Pilate

(3)

`She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes'

(1)

Richard

(1)

A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness

(2)

The Lover's Stars

(1)

`During the eastering of untainted morns,'

(1)

`---Hill, / Heaven and every field, are still'

(1)

`Distance / Dappled with diminish'd trees'

(1)

The peacock's eye

(1)

Love preparing to fly

(1)

Barnfloor and Winepress

(1)

New Readings

(1)

`He hath abolished the old drouth,'

(1)

Heaven-Haven

(1)

`I must hunt down the prize'

(1)

`Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses'

(1)

`Why if it be so, for the dismal morn'

(1)

`Or else their cooings came from bays of trees,'

(1)

`It was a hard thing to undo this knot.'

(1)

`Glimmer'd along the square-cut steep.'

(1)

`Late I fell in the ecstacy'

(1)

`Think of an opening page illumined'

(1)

`Miss Story's character! too much you ask,'

(1)

`Her prime of life---cut down too soon'

(1)

`Did Helen steal my love from me?'

(1)

(Woods in Spring)

(1)

`Like shuttles fleet the clouds, and after'

(1)

(Epigrams)

(2)

(1)

(Fragments)

(1)

The rainbow

(1)

`---Yes for a time they held as well'

(1)

Fragments of Floris in Italy

(4)

(Fragments)

Stars

(1)

They came/Next to meadows

(1)

`Dewy fields in the morning under the sun'

(1)

`---I am like a slip of comet,'

(1)

`No, they are come; their horn is lifted up;'

(1)

`Now I am minded to take pipe in hind'

(1)

A Voice from the World

(4)

`The cold whip-adder unespied'

(1)

(Fragments)

(1)

For a Picture of Saint Dorothea

(1)

`Proved Etherege prudish, selfish, hypocrite, heartless,'

(1)

Fragments of Richard

(2)

`All as that moth call'd Underwing, alighted,'

(1)

The Queen's Crowning

(5)

`Tomorrow meet you? O not tomorrow'

(1)

Fragment of Stephen and Barberie

(1)

`Boughs being pruned, birds preened, show more fair;'

(1)

`A silver scarce-call-silver gloss'

(1)

`I hear a noise of waters drawn away,'

(1)

(Dawn)

(1)

`When eyes that cast about the heights of heaven'

(1)

The Summer Malison

(1)

St. Thecla

(1)

Easter Communion

(1)

`From any hedgerow, any copse,'

(1)

`O Death, Death, He is come.'

(1)

`A basket broad of woven white rods'

(1)

(Fragments)

(1)

`Love me as I lone thee. O double sweet!'

(1)

To Oxford

(1)

`Where art thou friend, whom I shall never see,'

(1)

`Bellisle! that is a fabling name, but we'

(1)

``Confirmed beauty will not bear a stress;---'

(1)

The Beginning of the End

(1)

The Alchemist in the City

(2)

`But what indeed is ask'd of me?'

(1)

`Myself unholy, from myself unholy'

(1)

To Oxford

(1)

`See how Spring opens with disabling cold,'

(1)

Continuation of R. Garnett's Nix

(1)

`A noise of falls I am possessed by'

(1)

`O what a silence is this wilderness!'

(1)

`Mothers are doubtless happier for their babes'

(1)

Daphne

(1)

Fragments of Castara Victrix

(2)

`My prayers must meet a brazen heaven'

(1)

Shakspere

(1)

`Trees by their yield'

(1)

`Let me be to Thee as the circling bird,'

(1)

The Half-way House

(1)

A Complaint

(1)

`Moonless darkness stands between.'

(1)

`The earth and heaven, so little known,'

(1)

`As it fell upon a day'

(1)

`In the staring darkness'

(1)

`The stars were packed so close that night'

(1)

The Nightingale

(1)

The Habit of Perfection

(1)

Nondum

(2)

Easter

(1)

Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea

(1)

Summa

(1)

Jesu Dulcis Memoria

(1)

Inundatio Oxoniana

(1)

Ecquis binas

(1)

Elegiacs: Tristi tu, memini

(1)

`Alget honos frondum silvis dependitus, alget'

(1)

`Quo rubeant dulcesve rosae vel pomifer aestas'

(1)

Elegiacs: after The Convent Threshold

(1)

St. Dorothea (lines for a picture)

(2)

`Not kind! to freeze me with forecast,'

(1)

Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus

(1)

Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo

(2)

The Elopement

(1)

Oratio Patris Condren

(1)

Ad Matrem Virginem

(2)

`Haec te jubent salvere, quod possunt, loca'

(1)

(May Lines)

(1)

Ad Mariam

(2)

O Deus, ego amo te

100

(1)

Rosa Mystica

100

(2)

`Quique haec membra malis vis esse obnoxia multis'

102

(1)

On St. Winefred

102

(1)

In S. Winefridam

103

(1)

Fragments on St. Winefred

`Iam si rite sequor prisci vestigia facti'

103

(1)

`Quin etiam nostros non aspernata labores'

103

(1)

`Atque tribus primum quod flumen fontibus exit'

103

(1)

`Miror surgentem per puram Oriona noctem,'

104

(1)

S. Thomae Aquinatis Rhythmus

104

(2)

Author's Preface

106

(4)

The Wreck of the Deutschland

110

(9)

The Silver Jubilee

119

(1)

Ad Episcopum Salopiensem

120

(1)

Cywydd

120

(1)

Moonrise June 19 1876

121

(1)

The Woodlark

122

(1)

In Theclam Virginem

123

(1)

Penmaen Pool

123

(2)

Ochenaid Sant Francis Xavier

125

(1)

(Margaret Clitheroe)

125

(2)

`Hope holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out'

127

(1)

God's Grandeur

128

(1)

The Starlight Night

128

(1)

`The dark-out Lucifer detesting this'

129

(1)

`As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;'

129

(1)

Ad Rev. Patrem Fratrem Thomam Burke O.P.

129

(1)

Spring

130

(1)

The Sea and the Skylark

131

(1)

In the Valley of the Elwy

131

(1)

The Windhover

132

(1)

Pied Beauty

132

(1)

The Caged Skylark

133

(1)

`To him who ever thought with love of me'

133

(1)

Hurrahing in Harvest

134

(1)

The Lantern out of Doors

134

(1)

The Loss of the Eurydice

135

(4)

The May Magnificat

139

(1)

`O where is it, the wilderness,'

140

(1)

`Denis,'

140

(1)

`The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down'

141

(1)

`He mightbe slow and something feckless first,'

141

(1)

`What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'

141

(1)

Duns Scotus's Oxford

142

(1)

Binsey Poplars

142

(1)

Henry Purcell

143

(1)

`Repeat that, repeat,'

144

(1)

The Candle Indoors

144

(1)

The Handsome Heart

144

(1)

`How all is one way wrought!' (On a Piece of Music)

145

(1)

Cheery Beggar

146

(1)

The Bugler's First Communion

146

(2)

Andromeda

148

(1)

Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice

148

(1)

Peace

149

(1)

At the Wedding March

150

(1)

Felix Randal

150

(1)

Brothers

151

(1)

Spring and Fall

152

(1)

Milton

152

(1)

Inversnaid

153

(1)

Angelus ad virginem

153

(2)

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

155

(1)

Ribblesdale

156

(1)

A Trio of Triolets

157

(1)

The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe

158

(3)

`The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;'

161

(1)

from St. Winefred's Well

161

(5)

`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'

166

(1)

`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.'

166

(1)

`Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail'

167

(1)

`No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,'

167

(1)

To what serves Mortal Beauty?

167

(1)

(Carrion Comfort)

168

(1)

(The Soldier)

168

(1)

`Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,'

169

(1)

`Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,'

170

(1)

`My own heart let me more have pity on; let'

170

(1)

To his Watch

171

(1)

Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek

171

(3)

Incomplete Latin version of `In all things beautiful'

174

(1)

Robert Bridges

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

175

(1)

On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People

176

(1)

Harry Ploughman

177

(1)

(Ashboughs)

177

(1)

Tom's Garland

178

(1)

Epithalamion

179

(1)

`The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:'

180

(1)

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection

180

(1)

`What shall I do for the land that bred me,'

181

(1)

In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

182

(1)

`Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'

183

(1)

`The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns'

183

(1)

To R. B.

184

(1)

PROSE

Early Diaries (1863--6)

185

(122)

Journal From Hopkins's notes written

while an undergraduate at Oxford (1863--7)

191

(1)

in 1867--8

192

(1)

during a holiday in Switzerland (1868)

193

(4)

while at the Novitiate (1869-0)

197

(5)

at Stonyhurst (1870--3)

202

(16)

at Roehampton, London (1873-)

218

(3)

at St Beuno's, Wales (187)

221

(2)

Letters

to his father (16 Oct [1866])

223

(3)

to his mother (Christmas Eve, 1875)

226

(1)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1877)

227

(2)

to Robert Bridges (2 April I878)

229

(1)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 May 1878)

230

(2)

to Robert Bridges (30 May 1878)

232

(2)

postcard to Robert Bridges (June 1878)

234

(1)

to Robert Bridges (15 Feb. 1879)

234

(1)

to Robert Bridges (26 May 1879)

235

(2)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (14 Aug. 1879)

237

(3)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (25 Oct. 1879)

240

(1)

from a letter to R. W. Dixon (22 Dec. 1880)

241

(3)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (3 April 1881)

244

(1)

to Robert Bridges (16 Sept. 1881)

245

(1)

from a letter to R. W. Dixon (29 Oct. 1881)

246

(4)

from a letter to R. W. Dixon (1 Dec. 1881)

250

(4)

to Robert Bridges (18 Oct. 1882)

254

(3)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (4 Jan. 1883)

257

(2)

to Robert Bridges (7 March 1884)

259

(1)

to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1884)

260

(2)

to his sister, Kate Hopkins (9 Dec. 1884)

262

(1)

to Robert Bridges (1 Sept. 1885)

263

(1)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 Oct. 1886)

264

(1)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (28 Oct. 1886)

265

(1)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (7 Feb. 1887)

266

(2)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (30 July 1887)

268

(2)

from a letter to Robert Bridges (12 Jan. 1888)

270

(1)

to Robert Bridges (29 April 1889)

271

(4)

Sermons and Devotional Writings

from a sermon for 5 Oct. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) `on the Rosary'

275

(1)

from a sermon for 23 Nov. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) on Luke 2: 33

275

(3)

from a sermon for 25 Oct. 1880 `on Divine Providence and the Guardian Angels'

278

(3)

Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation

281

(2)

Notes on Suarez' De Mysteriis Vitae Christi

283

(4)

Notes on the Creation and Redemption

287

(3)

Further notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation

290

(2)

Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Hell

292

(3)

Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Death

295

(6)

Notes written during a retreat at Beaumont (3--10 Sept. 1883)

301

(1)

Notes written during a retreat at St Stanislaus' College, Tullabeg (1--6 Jan. 1888)

302

(5)

Notes

307

(94)

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