Front matter
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Georgian Poetry 1911-12 edited by Sir Edward Marsh 1913 Dedicated to Robert Bridges by the writers and the editor. Of all materials for labour, dreams are the hardest; and the artificer in ideas is the chief of workers, who out of nothing will make a piece of work that may stop a child from crying or lead nations to higher things. For what is it to be a poet? It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God. Dunsany
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note
Lascelles Abercrombie The Sale of Saint Thomas
Gordon Bottomley The End of the World Babel: The Gate of God (from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series) (from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series)
Rupert Brooke The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Dust The Fish Town and Country Dining-room Tea
Gilbert K. Chesterton The Song of Elf(a fragment from the Ballad of the White Horse)
William H. Davies The Child and the Mariner Days too Short In May The Heap of Rags The Kingfisher (from 'Songs of Joy') (from 'Songs of Joy') (from 'Songs of Joy') (from 'Songs of Joy') (from 'Farewell to Poesy')
Walter de la Mare Arabia The Sleeper Winter Dusk Miss Loo The Listeners(from 'The Listeners') (from 'The Listeners') (from 'The Listeners') (from 'The Listeners')
John Drinkwater The Fires of God(from 'Poems of Love and Earth')
James Elroy Flecker Joseph and Mary The Queen's Song(from 'Forty-Two Poems') (from 'Forty-Two Poems')
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson The Hare Geraniums Devil's Edge(from 'Fires,' Book III) (from 'Fires,' Book III)
D. H. Lawrence The Snapdragon
John Masefield Biography
Harold Monro Child of Dawn Lake Leman(from 'Before Dawn') (from 'Before Dawn')
T. Sturge Moore A Sicilian Idyll (first part)
Ronald Ross Hesperus(from 'Lyra Modulata')
Edmund Beale Sargant The Cuckoo Wood(from 'The Casket Songs')
James Stephens In the Poppy Field In the Cool of the Evening The Lonely God(from 'The Hill of Vision') (from 'The Hill of Vision') (from 'The Hill of Vision')
Robert Calverley Trevelyan Dirge
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