ROBERT NICHOLS

To THE Memory of my Trusty and Gallant Friends: HAROLD STUART GOUGH (King's Royal Rifle Corps) and RICHARD PINSENT (the Worcester Regiment)

I.—TO——

II.—THE PAST

III.—THE RECKONING

FAREWELL TO PLACE OF COMFORT

I.—IN THE GRASS: HALT BY ROADSIDE

II.—THE DAY'S MARCH

III.—NEARER

I.—NOON

II.—NIGHT BOMBARDMENT

III.—COMRADES: AN EPISODE

IV.—BEHIND THE LINES: NIGHT, FRANCE

V.—AT THE WARS

VI.—OUT OF TRENCHES: THE BARN, TWILIGHT

VII.—BATTERY MOVING UP TO A NEW POSITION FROM REST CAMP: DAWN

VIII.—EVE OF ASSAULT: INFANTRY GOING DOWN TO TRENCHES

IX.—THE ASSAULT

X.—THE LAST MORNING

XI.—FULFILMENT

I.—THE BURIAL IN FLANDERS

(H. S. G., Ypres, 1916)

II.—BOY

III.—PLAINT OF FRIENDSHIP BY DEATH BROKEN

(R. P., Loos, 1915)

IV.—BY THE WOOD

(H. S. G., Ypres, 1916)

(R. P., Loos, 1915)

I.—AT THE EBB

II.—ALONE

III.—THANKSGIVING

IV.—ANNIHILATED

V.—SHUT OF NIGHT

VI.—THE FULL HEART

VII.—SONNET: OUR DEAD

VIII.—DELIVERANCE

To my Brother PHILIP NICHOLS

The End.

To MR. and MRS. MOISEIWITSCH

I.—FIRST PANEL: THE HILL

II.—SECOND AND CENTRE PANEL: THE TOWER

III.—THIRD PANEL: THE TREE

I.—THE PRINCE OF ORMUZ SINGS TO BADOURA

II.—THE SONG OF THE PRINCESS BESIDE THE FOUNTAIN

III.—THE SONG OF THE PRINCE IN DISGUISE

IV.—THE PRINCESS BADOURA'S LAST SONG TO HER LOVER

THE GIFT OF SONG

I.—WARNING UNHEEDED

II.—ORESTES TO THE FURIES

I.—AT BRAYDON

II.—MIDDAY ON THE EDGE OF THE DOWNS

III.—IN DORSETSHIRE

MAN'S ANACREONTIC

THE BLACKBIRD

CHANGE

TRANSFIGURATION

PLAINT OF PIERROT ILL-USED

GIRL'S SONG FROM "THE TAILOR"[2]

LAST SONG IN AN OPERA

MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS

DANAË: MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS

THE ECSTASY

THE WATER-LILY

DEEM YOU THE ROSES....

THE PASSION

LAST WORDS