SORROW OF WAR

POEMS

BY

LOUIS GOLDING

METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

First Published in 1919

FOR MOTHER AND THE OTHER MOTHER

Certain of these poems have appeared in the "English Review," "To-Day," the "Englishwoman," the "Red Triangle," the "Nation," the "Cambridge Magazine," the "Sphere," the "Herald," the "Manchester Guardian," and the "Westminster Gazette."

To the editors of these journals I tender my acknowledgments.

CONTENTS

Lilac, Laburnum Streets of Gold "In the Gallery where the Fat Men go" Dead in Gallipoli A Journey South The New Trade The Woman who Shrieked against Peace The Women at the Corners Stand Joining-up During the Battle Jack German Boy Skylark and Dawn Jack of April Statesmen Debonair Over in Flanders Wild Weather Broken Bodies A Thought The Vintner For now comes Summer The Advent of Mars Prophet and Fool Whatever Path I walk upon London Magdalene Secret Girl Lanky Tim Mrs. Briggs Athens Now Down Tottenham Court Road In a Station Liza Women of the Night I Standing in the Street Slum Evening Fires of Change Poetry The Prisoner Nerves A Poet For My Friend "I shall be splendidly and tensely Young" "I" I know not whence my Poems come Lyrria Faringdon from Salonica Call of the Plover The Gallant Road The Quest Having finished "Jude the Obscure" Ghost and Body Gallop We Lads who Barter Rhymes Who knows Me? Judæus Errans Cold Stars Reactionary Late Wind of Black Night Yellow Satins My Mother's Portrait To A. L. O. The Dark Knight of the Road To the Swift Green Wind The Midmost Field in Kent Murmuryngeham Winchester Downs Cycling in October The Shepherd Derwentwater "I vowed that I would be a Tree" Wounded Soldiers Still Life in France I Dream'd I Died Flowers in War Evening—Kent Black Magic A Soldier Dying At Last War Ends