Front matter
Reading edition
“ADVENTURERS ALL” SERIES No. XXVII.
LONDON SONNETS
Adventurers All. A SERIES OF YOUNG POETS UNKNOWN TO FAME.
Come my friends.... ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down.... It may be we shall touch the happy isles. Yet our purpose holds ... to sail beyond the sunset. Ulysses
LONDON SONNETS
BY HUMBERT WOLFE Oxford Basil Blackwell, Broad Street, 1920
DEDICATION.
These were the first anemones— God only in his heaven sees How moving on their small green feet They blossomed in a London street, From a cool valley, as I guess, Beneath a hill in Lyonesse.
CONTENTS.
Page
Dedication4
London Pseudo-Sonnets:
The Old Clothes Dealer9
Coves at Hampton Court10
One Man Returns11
The Bun-Shop12
The Fried Fish-Shop13
The Streets Behind the Tottenham Court Road14
The Yorkshire Grey15
Wardour Street16
The Suburbs17
The Last London Sonnet18
Other Verse:
“Sometimes when I Think of Love”21
Old26
The Song of the Gambucinos28
February 1429
Pierrot30
The Dead Man in the Pool32
Dead Lover35
The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings36
Wheels 191938
The Well41
Judas43
The Night44
Other Sonnets:
Three Sonnets of Love49
The Reply52
God Gave us Bodies53
Ronsard and Hélène54
The Drift of the Lute55
Love and Beauty56
War Verse:
V. D. F.59
England60
The Moon in Flanders61
The Soldier Speaks62
Flowers at Hampton Court63
TO J.