Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on the Author xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Preface xv
7. A World of Songs
8. Overture
9. The Gable Window 5
10. Prelude
11. The Poet’s Thought 9
12. Songs of Place
13. In Lovers’ Lane 13
14. The Fir Lane 15
15. In an Old Garden 17
16. The Old Home Calls 19
17. The Exile 20
18. The Summons 21
19. Songs of Memory
20. Three Days 25
21. Companioned 26
22. Do You Remember? 27
23. Memory Pictures 28
24. Interlude
25. The Singer 31
26. Songs of Lamentation
27. Irrevocable 35
28. I Would Be Well 36
29. Night Watches 38
30. If I Had Known 40
31. The Book 41
32. Longing 42
33. The Mother 43
34. Songs of War
35. The Last Prayer 47
36. The Three Songs 49
37. We Who Wait 51
38. Our Women 52
39. Interlude
40. One of the Shepherds 55
41. Songs of Land and Sea
42. When the Fishing Boats Go Out 61
43. When the Fishing Boats Come In 62
44. Rain in the Woods 64
45. My Pictures 65
46. The Wind in the Poplars 66
47. The Sea-Shell 68
48. Before Storm 69
49. A Shore Picture 70
50. The Sea to the Shore 71
51. Songs of Death
52. Too Late 75
53. I Have Buried My Dead 77
54. Omega 79
55. An Old Man’s Grave 81
56. The Treasures 82
57. Songs of Love
58. If Love Should Come 85
59. Assurance 86
60. The Gray Silk Gown 87
61. On the Bridge 89
62. Gratitude 90
63. With Tears They Buried You To-day 91
64. Forever 93
65. To One Hated 94
66. The Lover’s Catechism 95
67. Postlude
68. The Poet 99
69. Coda
70. What I Would Ask of Life 103
71. Afterword 105
72. Notes 121
73. Bibliography 129
74. Index by Title 135
75. Index by Date 137
76. Index by First Line 139