PREFACE
Reading edition
The title of this book was chosen for this reason. Had the volume been called —— and Other Poems it might have given a false impression that its contents were entirely new. Had it been called Collected Poems the equally false impression might have been given that there was something of finality about it. The title selected seemed best to convey both the fact that it was a collection and that, under Providence, other (and, let us hope, superior) collections will follow it.
The book contains all that I do not wish to destroy of the contents of four volumes of verse. A number of small corrections have been made. There are added, also, a few recent poems not previously published. The earliest of the poems now reprinted is dated 1905, in which year I was twenty-one. Some of the subsequent years, such as 1914 and 1915, contributed nothing to this book: the greater number of the poems were written in 1911-1912 and 1916-1917.
Some of the poems were not written as I should now write them; and many of them reflect transient, though mostly recurrent, moods which I do not necessarily think worthy of esteem.
J. C. S. March 1918.
CONTENTS
YEAR Dedication Preface 1905 In a Chair A Day 1907 The Roof 1910 Town Friendship's Garland 1911 A Chant The Three Hills At Night Lines Florian's Song 1912 Antinomies on a Railway Station Tree-Tops Artemis Altera Epilogue Dialogue Starlight Song Crepuscular For Music The Fugitive Echoes 1913 The Mind Of Man A Reasonable Protestation In the Park In the Orchard The Ship Ode: In a Restaurant Faith A Fresh Morning Interior 1913-14 On a Friend Recently Dead 1916 The March Prologue: In Darkness The Lily of Malud 1917 A House Behind the Lines Arab Song The Stronghold To a Bull-Dog The Lake Paradise Lost Acacia Tree August Moon Sonnet Song A Generation Under Rivers I Shall make Beauty... Envoi