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POEMS OF TO-DAY:

an Anthology.

London: Published for the English Association by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1918

First issued in August, 1915; Reprinted October, 1915; January, March, June, September, and December, 1916; May, July, September, October, 1917, January, February, and July, 1918.

PREFATORY NOTE

This book has been compiled in order that boys and girls, already perhaps familiar with the great classics of the English speech, may also know something of the newer poetry of their own day. Most of the writers are living, and the rest are still vivid memories among us, while one of the youngest, almost as these words are written, has gone singing to lay down his life for his country's cause. Although no definite chronological limit has been set, and Meredith at least began to write in the middle of the nineteenth century, the intention has been to represent mainly those poetic tendencies which have become dominant as the influence of the accepted Victorian masters has grown weaker, and from which the poetry of the future, however it may develope, must in turn take its start. It may be helpful briefly to indicate the sequence of themes. Man draws his being from the heroic Past and from the Earth his Mother; and in harmony with these he must shape his life to what high purposes he may. Therefore this gathering of poems falls into three groups. First there are poems of History, of the romantic tale of the world, of our own special tradition here in England, and of the inheritance of obligation which that tradition imposes upon us. Naturally, there are some poems directly inspired by the present war, but nothing, it is hoped, which may not, in happier days, bear translation into any European tongue. Then there come poems of the Earth, of England again and the longing of the exile for home, of this and that familiar countryside, of woodland and meadow and garden, of the process of the seasons, of the "open road" and the "wind on the heath," of the city, its deprivations and its consolations. Finally there are poems of Life itself, of the moods in which it may be faced, of religion, of man's excellent virtues, of friendship and childhood, of passion, grief, and comfort. But there is no arbitrary isolation of one theme from another; they mingle and inter-penetrate throughout, to the music of Pan's flute, and of Love's viol, and the bugle-call of Endeavour, and the passing-bell of Death.

May, 1915.

PAGE A. E. Shadows and Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES Margaret's Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

BEECHING, H. C. Fatherhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

BELLOC, HILAIRE Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 From "Dedicatory Ode" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The South Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

BINYON, LAURENCE Bab-lock-hythe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 For the Fallen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 In misty blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 O summer sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 The Little Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 The Road Menders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

BLUNT, W. S. A Day in Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Chanclebury Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 St. Valentine's Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

BRIDGES, ROBERT Awake, my heart, to be loved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Elegy on a Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 I love all beauteous things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 I never shall love the snow again . . . . . . . . . . . 148 I will not let thee go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 London Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

On a Dead Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Spring goeth all in white . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 The hill pines were sighing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 There is a hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 When June is come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

BROOKE, RUPERT The Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Old Vicarage, Grantchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

CANTON, WILLIAM Heights and Depths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

CHALMERS, P. R. Roundabouts and Swings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

CHESTERTON, G. K. The Praise of Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

COLERIDGE, MARY E. A Huguenot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chillingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Gibberish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Street Lanterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Where a Roman Villa stood, above Freiburg . . . . . . . 33

COLUM, PADRAIC A Cradle Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

CORNFORD, FRANCES Pre-existence To a Lady seen from the Train . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

CRIPPS, A. S. A Lyke-wake Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A Refrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Essex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

DAVIDSON, JOHN A Cinque Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 In Romney Marsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

DAVIES, W. H. Days that have been . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Early Morn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

DE LA MARE, WALTER All that's Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 An Epitaph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Nod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Scarecrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

DRINKWATER, JOHN A Town Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Mamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The Defenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

FLECKER, J. E. A ship, an isle, a sickle moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Brumana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

GOSSE, EDMUND Lying in the Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Philomel in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

GOULD, GERALD Fallen Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 'Tis but a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

HODGSON, RALPH Time, you old gipsy man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE Annus Mirabilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

KIPLING, RUDYARD Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

LESLIE, SHANE Fleet Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

MACAULAY, ROSE Many Sisters to Many Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Devourers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

MACKAIL, J. W. On the Death of Arnold Toynbee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

MEREDITH, GEORGE Juggling Jerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 From "Love in the Valley" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Lucifer in Starlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The Lark Ascending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

MEYNELL, ALICE A Dead Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 At Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Chimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 November Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Parted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 The Lady Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Shepherdess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 To a Daisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 To the Beloved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

MOORE, T. STURGE Idleness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Rower's Chant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY Drake's Drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 He Fell among Thieves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Minora Sidera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Volunteer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Vita? Lampada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

NICHOLS, J. B. B. On the Toilet Table of Queen Marie-Antoinette . . . . . 9

NOYES, ALFRED The moon is up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

QUILLER-COUCH, SIR A. T. Alma Mater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon . . . . . . . . . . . 9

RADFORD, ERNEST Plymouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

SMITH, ADA In City Streets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

STEVENSON, R. L. I will make you brooches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 If this were Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 In the Highlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 My Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Requiem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The Celestial Surgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 The House Beautiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Vagabond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 To S. R. Crockett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 To Will H. Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Youth and Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

SYMONS, ARTHUR In Fountain Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 In the Meadows at Mantua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

THOMPSON, FRANCIS All Flesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Daisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 The Kingdom of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 To a Snowflake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 To my Godchild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

TRENCH, HERBERT Musing on a Great Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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