Arthur Quiller-Couch

“ Where the shopmen stand supplying,
Vying, vying
All they know,
While the Autumn lies a-dying
Sad and low
As the price of summer suitings when the winter breezes blow,
Of the summer, summer suitings that are standing in a row
On the way to Jericho. ”

“ 'I could not find the way to God;
There were too many flaming suns
For signposts, and the fearful road
Led over wastes where millions
Of tangled comets hissed and burned—
I was bewilder'd and I turned. ”

“ Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight. ”

“ Caliban museth of the now extinct Examination in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion.
SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMPS. My Juggins, see: the pasture green,
Obeying Nature's kindly law,
Renews its mantle; there has been
A thaw. ”

“ Has it gone up the spout?
Are things what they seem,
Or is Sophists about?
Is our "to ti en einai" a failure, or is Robert Browning played
out?
[1] The Oxford Browning Society expired at Keble the week before this was written.
L'ENVOI. AS I LAYE A-DREAMYNGE. After T. I.
As I laye a-dreamynge, a-dreamynge, a-dreamynge,
O softlye moaned the dove to her mate within the tree,
And meseemed unto my syghte
Came rydynge many a knyghte
All cased in armoure bryghte
Cap-a-pie,
As I laye a-dreamynge, a goodlye companye! ”

“ And scarcelye moaned the dove, as her agonye was spente:
'Shalle to-morrowe see them nygher
To a golden walle or spyre?
You have better in yr fyre,
Bee contente.'
As I laye a-dreamynge, it seem'd smalle punyshment. ”

“ Year by year found him busy 'mid the bean-sticks,
Wholly uncertain how on earth to take steps.
Thus for eighteen years he beheld the maiden
Wave fro' her window.
But the nineteenth spring, i' the Castle post-bag,
Came by book-post Bill's catalogue o' seedlings
Mark'd wi' blue ink at 'Paragraphs relatin'
Mainly to Pumpkins.'
'W. A. can,' so the Lady Jane read,
'Strongly commend that very noble Gourd, the
Lady Jane, first-class medal, ornamental;
Grows to a great height.' ”

“ I AM NOT ONE THAT GOES TO LECTURES.' CALIBAN UPON RUDIMENTS. SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMPS. A LETTER. OCCASIONAL VERSES. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS. UNITY PUT QUARTERLY. FIRE! DE TEA FABULA. L'ENVOI (AS I LAYE A-DREAMYNGE) . IN A COLLEGE GARDEN. Senex. ”