Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- POEMS AND PROSE -- Sappho -- The Dead City -- Spring Quiet -- Repining -- A Pause of Thought -- What Sappho Would Have Said Had Her Leap Cured Instead of Killing Her -- Song ('When I am dead, my dearest') -- To Lalla, Reading My Verses Topsy-Turvy -- Song ('Oh roses for the flush of youth') -- Have You Forgotten? -- An End -- Two Pursuits -- Dream Land -- After Death -- Rest -- Life Hidden -- Remember -- ('So I grew half delirious and quite sick') -- A Dirge -- 'A Fair World Tho' a Fallen' -- -- 'A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break' -- Moonshine -- 'To What Purpose is This Waste?' -- From the Antique ('I wish that I were dying')/One Sea-Side Grave -- Whitsun Eve -- What? -- A Pause -- Song ('Two doves upon the selfsame branch') -- Sleep at Sea -- 'Consider the Lilies of the Field' -- A Study (A Soul) -- The Bourne -- Paradise -- The World -- Guesses -- From the Antique -- Two Choices -- Echo -- The First Spring Day -- My Dream -- Cobwebs -- May ('I cannot tell you how it was') -- An Afterthought -- May - -- Shut Out -- By the Water -- A Chilly Night -- Amen -- A Bed of Forget-Me-Nots -- 'Look on This Picture and on This' -- The Lowest Room -- A Triad -- Love from the North -- In an Artist's Studio -- A Better Resurrection -- 'The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness' -- In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 -- 'Reflection' -- A Coast-Nightmare -- Another Spring -- 'For One Sake' -- A Birthday -- An Apple Gathering -- My Secret -- Autumn -- Advent -- At Home -- Up-Hill -- The Convent Threshold -- Christian and Jew -- A Yawn/By the Sea -- From House to Home -- Winter Rain -- L.E.L. -- Goblin Market -- Spring -- Sister Maude -- Noble Sisters -- 'No Thank You, John' -- Mirage.

Old and New Year Ditties, 3 ('Passing away, saith the World, passing away') -- Promises like Piecrust -- A Royal Princess -- In Progress -- Good Friday -- A Dream -- The Queen of Hearts -- A Bird's-Eye View -- A Dumb Friend -- Maiden-Song -- The Lowest Place -- Somewhere or Other -- What Would I Give? -- Who Shall Deliver Me? -- The Ghost's Petition -- Twice -- Under Willows -- Bird or Beast? -- A Sketch -- Songs in a Cornfield -- Despised and Rejected -- Jessie Cameron -- Weary in Well-Doing -- Paradise: in a Symbol -- Grown and Flown -- Eve -- The Prince's Progress -- Memory -- Amor Mundi -- From Sunset to Star Rise -- Under the Rose -- En Route/An 'Immurata' Sister -- Enrica, 1865 -- A Daughter of Eve -- A Dirge ('Why were you born when the snow was falling?') -- In a Certain Place -- 'Cannot Sweeten' -- Autumn Violets -- 'They Desire a Better Country' -- From sing-song: a nursery rhyme book: -- Love me, - I love you -- My baby has a father and a mother -- 'Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!' -- Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush -- Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? -- Heartsease in my garden bed -- If I were a Queen -- The days are clear -- Twist me a crown of wind-flowers -- How many seconds in a minute? -- What is pink? a rose is pink -- I planted a hand -- Under the ivy bush -- Margaret has a milking-pail -- In the meadow - what in the meadow? -- A frisky lamb -- The wind has such a rainy sound -- Minnie bakes oaten cakes -- 'Ferry me across the water' -- Who has seen the wind? -- An emerald is as green as grass -- I caught a little ladybird -- Wee wee husband -- 'I dreamt I caught a little owl' -- Is the moon tired? she looks so pale -- Crimson curtains round my mother's bed -- By Way of Remembrance -- The German-French Campaign 1870 - 1871 -- A Christmas Carol -- Venus's Looking-Glass -- Love Lies Bleeding -- A Bride Song.

A Rose Plant in Jericho -- [Dedicatory Sonnet of A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)] -- The Key-Note -- Pastime -- 'Italia, Io Ti Saluto!' -- Mirrors of Life and Death -- A Ballad of Boding -- Yet a Little While -- He and She -- Monna Innominata -- 'Luscious and Sorrowful' -- 'Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious' -- Touching 'Never' -- A Life's Parallels -- Golden Silences -- In the Willow Shade -- 'One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore' -- An October Garden -- 'Summer is Ended' -- Passing and Glassing -- The Thread of Life -- An Old-World Thicket -- Later Life: a Double Sonnet of Sonnets -- 'Behold the Man!' -- Resurgam -- A Valentine -- Birchington Churchyard -- 'A Helpmeet for Him' -- An Echo from Willowwood -- ('Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse') -- 'Son, Remember' -- ('Sleeping at last, the trouble & tumult over') -- STORIES -- Maude -- Nick -- The Lost Titian -- A Safe Investment -- DEVOTIONAL PROSE -- From seek and find: a double series of short studies of the benedicite -- Waters Above the Firmament -- Sun and Moon -- Seas and Floods -- Whales and All That Move in the Waters -- Spirits and Souls of the Righteous -- Powers -- From letter and spirit: notes on the commandments -- From time flies: a reading diary -- January 2 -- January 3 -- January 15 -- January 16 ('Love understands the mystery') -- February 8 -- February 9 -- February 10 -- February 11 ('No more! while sun and planets fly') -- February 12 ('Once again to wake, nor wish to sleep') -- February 14 -- February 15 ('My love whose heart is tender said to me') -- February 20 -- February 27 ('A handy Mole who plied no shovel') -- February 28 -- March 4 -- March 5 ('Where shall I find a white rose blowing?') -- March 18 -- April 1 (A Castle-Builder's World) -- April 2 -- April 13 ('A cold wind stirs the blackthorn') -- April 20 ('Piteous my rhyme is') -- April 28 -- April 29.

May 16 ('If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living') -- May 20 ('That Song of Songs which is Solomon's') -- May 21 (' "The half was not told me," said Sheba's Queen') -- May 28 ('They lie at rest, our blessed dead') -- June 3 -- June 4 -- June 6 ('Heartsease I found, where Love-lies-bleeding') -- June 7 -- June 8 -- June 9 ('Roses on a brier') -- June 26 -- July 4 -- July 6 -- July 7 ('Contemptuous of his home beyond') -- July 13 -- July 14 -- July 17 -- July 18 -- August 4 -- August 5 ('Of each sad word, which is more sorrowful') -- October 14 -- December 17 ('Earth grown old yet still so green') -- December 29 ('Love came down at Christmas') -- Thursday in Holy Week ('The great Vine left its glory to reign as Forest King') -- Rogation Tuesday -- From the face of the deep: a devotional commentary on the apocalypse -- Prefatory Note -- Ch. V.6 -- Ch. VIII.1 -- Ch. XII.1 -- Ch. XIII.2 -- Ch. XVII.3 -- Ch. XVII.4 - 5 -- Ch. XVII.9 -- Ch. XVII.10 - 13 -- Ch. XVII.14 - 17 -- Ch. XVII.18 -- Ch. XVIII.11 - 13 -- Ch. XVIII.14 -- Ch. XVIII.15 - 17 -- Ch. XX.10 -- Ch. XX.12 -- LETTERS -- To William Michael Rossetti, 19 September 1853 -- To Amelia Barnard Heimann, 3 April 1862 -- To Adolph Heimann, [?April] 1862 -- To Alexander Macmillan, [1 December 1863] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 7 May 1864 -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 23 December 1864 -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 30 [January 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 10 [February 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 3 [March 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 6 [March 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [11 March 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 13 [March 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [?April 1865] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [?spring 1870] -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 14 [December 1875] -- To Augusta Webster [?later 1878] -- To Augusta Webster [?later 1878].

To an Unnamed Correspondent, 23 [?] 1888 -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines of Poems -- Footnotes.