Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
A FATHER OF WOMEN and other poems
by Alice Meynell
BURNS & OATES Ltd 28 Orchard Street London W 1917
To V. L.
THE CONTENTS
A Father of Women Page 7
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle 9
Nurse Edith Cavell 11
Summer in England, 1914 12
To Tintoretto in Venice 14
A Thrush Before Dawn 16
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries 18
To O—, of her Dark Eyes 19
The Treasure 20
A Wind of Clear Weather in England 22
In Sleep 23
The Divine Privilege 24
Free Will 26
The Two Questions 27
The Lord’s Prayer 29
Easter Night 30