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Poetry · 1898

The Flower of the Mind

Alice Meynell

Reading time
about 5 h
Length
70,847 words · 366 pages
Structure
214 sections · 7 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Flower of the Mind, first published in 1898, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Introduction
  3. The First Carol
  4. Verses Before Death
  5. Easter
  6. Fresh Spring
  7. Like as a Ship
  8. Epithalamion
  9. The Spring
  10. True Love
  11. The Moon
  12. Kiss
  13. Sweet Judge
  14. Sleep
  15. Wat’red Was My Wine
  16. Rosalynd’s Madrigal
  17. Rosaline
  18. The Solitary Shepherd’s Song
  19. I Saw My Lady Weep
  20. Farewell to Arms
  21. Fawnia
  22. Sephestia’s Song to Her Child
  23. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  24. Sleep
  25. My Spotless Love
  26. Since There’s No Help
  27. Were I as Base
  28. Fancy
  29. Under the Greenwood Tree
  30. Fairies
  31. Come Away
  32. Full Fathom Five
  33. Dirge
  34. Song
  35. Song
  36. Tom O’ Bedlam
  37. Kind Are Her Answers
  38. Laura
  39. Her Backed Bower
  40. Follow
  41. When Thou Must Home
  42. Western Wind
  43. Follow Your Saint
  44. Cherry-Ripe
  45. Spring
  46. This Happy Dream
  47. Death
  48. Hymn to God the Father
  49. The Funeral
  50. The Nightingale
  51. Charis’ Triumph
  52. Jealousy
  53. Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H
  54. Hymn to Diana
  55. On My First Daughter
  56. Echo’s Lament Fob Narcissus
  57. An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel
  58. Invocation to Sleep, from Valentinian
  59. To Bacchus
  60. Song from the Duchess of Malfi
  61. Song from the Devil’s Law-Case
  62. In Earth, Dirge from Vittoria Corombona
  63. Song
  64. Sleep, Silence’ Child
  65. To the Nightingale
  66. Madrigal I
  67. Madrigal II
  68. I — Beaumont and Fletcher 1586–1616 and 1579–1625: Died True
  69. On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
  70. To Cynthia, on Concealment of Her Beauty
  71. Matin Song
  72. Sleep, Baby, Sleep!
  73. Song
  74. To My Inconstant Mistress
  75. An Hymeneal Dialogue
  76. Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
  77. Lullaby
  78. Sweet Content
  79. Good-Morrow
  80. To Dianeme
  81. To Meadows
  82. To Blossoms
  83. To Daffodils
  84. To Violets
  85. To Primroses
  86. To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon
  87. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
  88. Dress
  89. In Silks
  90. Corinna’s Going a-Maying
  91. Grace for a Child
  92. Ben Jonson
  93. Holy Baptism
  94. Virtue
  95. Unkindness
  96. Love
  97. The Pulley
  98. The Collar
  99. Life
  100. Misery
  101. Equality
  102. Lullaby
  103. Morning
  104. The Rose
  105. His Mistress
  106. A Sonnet of the Moon
  107. Hymn on Christ’s Nativity
  108. L’Allegro
  109. IL — Penseroso
  110. Lycidas
  111. On His Blindness
  112. On His Deceased Wife
  113. On Shakespeare
  114. Song on May Morning
  115. Invocation to Sabrina, from Comus
  116. Invocation to Echo, from Comus
  117. The Attendant Spirit, from Comus
  118. The Vigil of Death
  119. On a Prayer-Book Sent to Mrs. M. R
  120. To the Morning
  121. Love’s Horoscope
  122. On Mr. G. Herbert’s Book
  123. Wishes to His Supposed Mistress
  124. Quem Vidistis Pastores, Etc.: A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds
  125. Music’s Duel
  126. The Flaming Heart
  127. On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
  128. Hymn to the Light
  129. To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
  130. To Amarantha
  131. Lucasta
  132. To Althea, from Prison
  133. A Guiltless Lady Imprisoned: After Penanced
  134. The Rose
  135. A Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
  136. The Picture of T. C. In a Prospect of Flowers
  137. The Nymph Complaining of the Death of Her Fawn
  138. The Definition of Love
  139. The Garden
  140. The Dawning
  141. Childhood
  142. Corruption
  143. The Night
  144. The Eclipse
  145. The Retreat
  146. The World of Light
  147. Helen of Kirconnell
  148. The Wife of Usher’s Well
  149. The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  150. Sweet William and May Margaret
  151. Sir Patrick Spens
  152. Hame, Hame, Hame
  153. A Lyke-Wake Dirge
  154. Ode
  155. Song, from Abdelazar
  156. Hymn
  157. Elegy
  158. Lines on Receiving His Mother’s Picture
  159. Life
  160. The Land of Dreams
  161. The Piper
  162. Holy Thursday
  163. The Tiger
  164. To the Muses
  165. Love’s Secret
  166. To a Mouse
  167. The Farewell
  168. Why Art Thou Silent?
  169. Thoughts of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
  170. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
  171. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
  172. O Friend! I Know Not
  173. Surprised by Joy
  174. To Toussaint L’Ouverture
  175. With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled
  176. The World
  177. Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802
  178. When I Have Borne in Memory
  179. Three Years She Grew
  180. The Daffodils
  181. The Solitary Reaper
  182. Elegiac Stanzas
  183. To H. C
  184. The Pet Lamb
  185. Stepping Westward
  186. The Childless Father
  187. Proud Maisie
  188. A Weary Lot Is Thine
  189. The Maid of Neidpath
  190. Kubla Khan
  191. Youth and Age
  192. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  193. Argument
  194. Part I
  195. Part II
  196. Part III
  197. Part IV
  198. Part V
  199. Part VI
  200. Part VII
  201. Rose Aylmer
  202. Epitaph
  203. Child of a Day
  204. Hohenlinden
  205. Earl March
  206. Hester
  207. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
  208. The Isles of Greece
  209. Hellas
  210. Wild with Weeping
  211. To the Night
  212. To a Skylark
  213. To the Moon
  214. The Question
  215. The Waning Moon
  216. Ode to the West Wind
  217. Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou
  218. The Invitation, to Jane
  219. The Recollection
  220. Ode to Heaven
  221. First Spirit
  222. Second Spirit
  223. Third Spirit
  224. Life of Life
  225. Autumn
  226. Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
  227. Dirge for the Year
  228. A Widow Bird
  229. The Two Spirits
  230. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  231. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
  232. To Sleep
  233. The Gentle South
  234. Last Sonnet
  235. Ode to a Nightingale
  236. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  237. Ode to Autumn
  238. Ode to Psyche
  239. Ode to Melancholy
  240. She Is Not Fair
  241. Notes
  242. IL — Penseroso.—Page 113

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Alice Meynell

1847–1922 · Victorian

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