GEORGIAN
POETRY
1916 - 1917
THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
35 DEVONSHIRE St. THEOBALDS RD.
LONDON W.C. I
MCMXVII
To
EDMUND GOSSE
Contents
Prefatory Note
W. J. Turner
Romance (from 'The Hunter')
Ecstasy
Magic
The Hunter
The Sky-sent Death
The Caves of Auvergne
James Stephens
The Fifteen Acres (from 'The Adventures of Beaumas Beg')
Check
Westland Row
The Turn of the Road
A Visit from Abroad
J.C. Squire
A House (from 'The Lily of Malud')
To a Bull-dog
The Lily of Malud
Siegfried Sassoon
A Letter Home (from 'The Old Huntsman')
The Kiss
The Dragon and the Undying
To Victory
'They'
'In the Pink'
Haunted
The Death-Bed
I. Rosenberg
'Ah, Koelue . . .'
Robert Nichols
To _____ (from 'Ardours and Endurances')
The Assault
Fulfilment
The Philosopher's Oration
The Naiad's Music
The Prophetic Bard's Oration
The Tower
Harold Monro
Two Poems (from 'Strange Meetings')
Every Thing
Solitude
Week-end
The Bird at Dawn
John Masefield
Seven Poems (from 'Lollingdon Downs')
Here in the self is all that man can know . . .
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt . . .
If I could get within this changing I, . . .
Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men;
Roses are beauty, but I never see . . .
I sent into the fields, but you were there . . .
Death lies in wait for you, you wild thing in the wood, . . .
Ralph Hodgson
The Gipsy Girl
The Bells of Heaven
Babylon
Robert Graves
It's a Queer Time (from 'Over the Brazier')
Goliath and David (from 'Fairies and Fusiliers')
A Pinch of Salt
Star Talk (from 'Over the Brazier')
In the Wilderness
The Boy in Church (from 'Fairies and Fusiliers')
The Lady Visitor
Not Dead
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Rupert Brooke (from 'Friends')
Tenants
For G.
Sea-Change
Battle (from 'Battle')
I. The Return
II. The Dancers
III. Hit
Lament (from 'Whin')
John Freeman
Music Comes (from 'Stone Trees')
November Skies
Discovery
'It was the Lovely Moon'
Stone Trees
Pigeons (published in
To-Day
)
Happy is England Now (from 'Stone Trees')
John Drinkwater
May Garden (from 'Tides')
The Midlands
The Cotswold Farmers
Reciprocity
Birthright (rom 'Olton Pools')
Olton Pools
Walter de la Mare
The Scribe (from 'Poems')
The Remonstrance
The Ghost
The Fool rings his Bells
William H. Davies
The White Cascade (from 'Child Lovers')
Easter
Raptures
Cowslips
Gordon Bottomley
Atlantis (from 'An Annual of New Poetry, 1917)
New Year's Eve, 1913
In Memoriam, A.M.W.
Maurice Baring
In Memoriam, A.H.
Herbert Asquith
The Volunteer
Bibliography