William Watson

• Retrogression and Other Poems - William Watson (anthology)
  • Note (note)
  • Retrogression
  • The Mossgrown Porches
  • The Sexes of Song
  • The Husbandman of Heaven [Lines written near the burial-place of Burns]
  • Shakespeare
  • Tradition in Art and Letters
  • Nature's Way
  • On a Caroline Poet
  • Art's Riddle
  • To a Strenuous Critic
  • To—
  • To a Literary Cleric
  • The Ballad of the Bootmaker [A Fable for Poets]
  • The Giants and the Elves
  • The Yapping Cur
  • The Surprise
  • On a Too Prolific Essayist
  • Staggerall
  • The Adjective
  • Who Can Tell?
  • Mastery
  • The Difference
  • Thomas Hood
  • Confidence
  • On Milton's Use of the Sonnet
  • A Wise Precept
  • Over-Vigilance
  • To a Skilled Versemaker
  • On a People's Poet
  • On a Deceased Author
  • Loves and Hates
  • The Wizard's Wand
  • To a Vintner of Parnassus
  • Coke Upon Littleton
  • The Eternal Search
  • Rapture
  • To a Violoncello
  • Her Third Birthday
  • Disclosure
  • Edenhunger
  • The Better Choice
  • To My Eldest Child
  • To the Hon. Stephen Coleridge [On his Labours in Mitigation of Animal Suffering]
  • An Insoluble Problem
  • On a Little Gift to a Little Child
  • The Prodigy 1915
  • Uninhabited
  • Valedictory
  • To a Successful Man
  • What Science Says to Truth
  • The Peer's Progress [Verses on reading that Lord Aberdeen was about to be made Marquess of Aberdeen and Tara.]
  • A Familiar Epistle To Dr. Oliver Gogarty of Dublin (Written in Scotland at Yuletide)

  William Watson. Retrogression and Other Poems. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917.