Chapter I: Front Matter

TOWARDS DEMOCRACY

TOWARDS

DEMOCRACY

_Complete Edition in Four Parts_

Published by

GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN LIMITED
AT RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET,
LONDON, W.C.

1918.

COPYRIGHT

BY EDWARD CARPENTER

_All rights reserved_

First Published 1883; Second Edition 1885;
Third Edition 1892; Fourth Part 1902;
Complete Edition 1905; Reprinted 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913

CONTENTS

1. PAGE

2. PART I

3. TOWARDS DEMOCRACY (1881–2) 3

4. PART II

5. _O Freedom, beautiful beyond compare_ 111

6. York Minster 112

7. Sunday Morning after Church 115

8. High in My Chamber 119

9. Deep Below Deep 122

10. Except the Lord 124

11. I Come Forth from the Darkness 130

12. Sunday Morning near a Manufacturing Town 137

13. In the Drawing Rooms 139

14. In a Manufacturing Town 144

15. What Have I to do with Thee 146

16. As to You, O Moon 149

17. Squinancy Wort 152

18. _Not of Myself_ 154

19. Lo! I Open a Door 154

20. By this Heart 154

21. As one who from a high Cliff 156

22. To One in Trouble 156

23. These Waves of Your Great Heart 156

24. Thus as I Yearned for Love 158

25. Eternal Hunger 159

26. Child of the Lonely Heart 160

27. To One who is where the Eternal are 162

28. Through the Long Night 165

29. To a Stranger 166

30. To a Friend 166

31. Of the Love that you poured forth 167

32. As a Woman of a Man 167

33. O Love, to whom the Poets 169

34. Who You are I Know Not 171

35. Have Faith (1884) 172

36. I Heard a Voice 179

37. I Know that You are Self-conscious 179

38. Who are You 180

39. Among the Ferns 181

40. I Heard the Voice of the Woods 184

41. The Wind Chants Well 187

42. I am a Voice 188

43. O Sea with White Lines 188

44. Home 190

45. Off Gaspé 190

46. By the Shore 192

47. A Military Band 195

48. Wings 201

49. On an Atlantic Steamship 203

50. By Lake Wachusett 213

51. O Mighty Mother 215

52. AFTER LONG AGES (1883–4) 218

53. PART III

54. _We are a menace to you, O civilisation_ 259

55. After Civilisation 260

56. The word Democracy 263

57. The Meaning of it All 266

58. These Populations 266

59. Andromeda 268

60. The Triumph of Civilisation 269

61. The Dead Christ 270

62. Christmas Eve 271

63. _Little Heart within thy Cage_ 272

64. When I am near to you 273

65. Cradled in Flame 273

66. All Night Long 274

67. Of the Past 274

68. Love’s Vision 275

69. Nearer than ever Now 276

70. O Thou whose Form 276

71. The Elder Soldier to the Younger 277

72. Into the Regions of the Sun (1886) 278

73. As it Happened 280

74. Parted Lips 283

75. Summer-heat 284

76. A rivederci 284

77. Who will Learn Freedom 285

78. After all Suffering 286

79. When a Thousand Years have Passed 287

80. A Message Committed to the Waves 288

81. Rest at Last 290

82. The Wind of May 291

83. _O Earth, scene of what toil_ 292

84. A Voice over the Earth 293

85. In the Chamber of Birth 301

86. A Cottage among the Hills 302

87. Alice 303

88. Baby Song 304

89. Early Morning 305

90. The Golden Wedding 306

91. The Mother to her Daughter 307

92. A Sprig of Aristocracy 308

93. A Scene in London 308

94. S. James’ Park 309

95. The Twin Statues of Amenophis 311

96. Artemidorus, Farewell 313

97. From Turin to Paris 315

98. To the End of Time 321

99. On the Eve of Departure 322

100. Arenzano 323

101. O Tender Heart 324

102. The Carter 326

103. The Stone-cutter 327

104. The Voice of One Blind 327

105. A Song in Old Age 329

106. In Extreme Age 331

107. After the Day’s Work 332

108. I saw a Vision 332

109. Ah! Blessed is he that hath Escaped 333

110. The Great Leader 333

111. I Accept You 333

112. Sol 333

113. A Glimpse 334

114. The Long Day in the Open 334

115. The Idler 335

116. In the Deep Cave of the Heart 335

117. _Fly Messenger! through the Streets of the Cities_ 336

118. The Coming of the Lord 337

119. The Curse of Property 340

120. Over the Great City 342

121. Underneath and After All 343

122. A Hard Saying 344

123. Not for a Few Months or Years 345

124. Disentanglement 345

125. The Mortal Lover 347

126. The End of Love 349

127. A New Life 350

128. The Law of Equality 351

129. To Thine Own Self be True 352

130. Abandon Hope all Ye that Enter Here 353

131. To One Dead 353

132. Of all the Suffering 354

133. A Long Journey 356

134. The Secret of Time and Satan (1888) 358

135. Brief is Pain 364

136. The Body and the Book 366

137. PART IV

138. _Because the Starry Lightnings_ 368

139. Who shall Command the Heart 369

140. From Caverns Dark 370

141. The Lake of Beauty 372

142. The wandering Psyche 373

143. I hear thy call, Mysterious Being 374

144. So thin a Veil divides 376

145. The open Secret 376

146. The Songs of the Birds, who hears 377

147. A Child at a Window 380

148. Night 381

149. April 381

150. Lucifer 382

151. The Ocean of Sex 383

152. As the Greeks Dreamed 385

153. In a Scotch-Fir Wood 386

154. The Dream goes by 387

155. Surely the Time will come 388

156. The one Foundation 390

157. A Mightier than Mammon 394

158. _O little Sister Heart_ 407

159. Forms Eternal as the Mountains 408

160. Spending the Night alone 408

161. O Joy divine of Friends 409

162. O Child of Uranus 410

163. One at a Time 411

164. The dead Comrade 412

165. Philoläus to Diocles 413

166. Hafiz to the Cup-bearer 416

167. In the stone-floored Workshop 417

168. The Trysting 419

169. The Lover far on the Hills 422

170. The Babe 423

171. _O Gracious Mother_ 425

172. I saw a fair House 426

173. A Dream of Human Life 428

174. The Coast of Liguria 429

175. Easter Day on Mt. Mounier 431

176. At Mentone 433

177. Monte Carlo 435

178. India, the Wisdom-land (1890) 440

179. Tanzbödeli 442

180. A Village Church 445

181. Sheffield 450

182. A Lancashire Mill-hand 452

183. A Trade 454

184. The Ploughboy 455

185. The Jackdaw 456

186. By the Mersey 457

187. In the British Museum Library 459

188. Empire 462

189. The British, A. D. 1901 467

190. Portland 468

191. China, A. D. 1900 471

192. _Standing beyond Time_ 476

193. Who but the Lover should know 477

194. The Everlasting Now 479

195. Now is the accepted Time 479

196. A Summer Day 480

197. The central Calm 481

198. Widening Circles 482

199. When I Look upon your Faces 483

200. Life behind Life 483

201. The stupid old Body 484

202. The wandering lunatic Mind 485

203. As a Mould for some fair Form 487

204. Nothing less than All 487

205. Believe yourself a Whole 490

206. The Body within the Body 491

207. In an old Quarry 494

208. The Soul to the Body 494

209. To become a Creator 497

210. After Fifty Years 499

211. Out of the House of Childhood 500

212. Little Brook without a Name (1902) 502

213. Lo! what a World I Create 506

214. A NOTE ON “TOWARDS DEMOCRACY” 509