PREFACE
Reading edition
Three years ago I published a volume called Poems: First Series, which contained a collection of what I had written between 1905 and March, 1918.
The present collection contains all that I have written since then. The Birds and nine shorter poems were published in a small booklet in 1919; The Moon was separately published in 1920; but the majority of the poems here printed appear in book form for the first time, and twelve have never previously been published.
The poems are as nearly as possible in chronological order, except that the group called An Epilogue should have been dated 1917.
J. C. S. September, 1921.
CONTENTS
YEAR Dedication Preface 1918 The Birds A Dog's Death A Poet to his Muse Processes of Thought. I II III Airship over Suburb The Invocation of Lucretius An Epilogue: I The Fluke II The Conversation III The Deaf Adder IV The Landscape V Another Hour An Impression Received from a Symphony Fen Landscape Meditation in Lamplight Harlequin 1919 Winter Nightfall A Far Place Late Snow Song: You are My Sky Song: The Heaven is Full Old Song Epitaph in Old Mode The Moon The Happy Night 1920 Constantinople Elegy Wars and Rumours, 1920 1921 To a Musician The Rugger Match