The last poems of Alice Meynell
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1. Front matter2. THE CONTENTS3. THE POET AND HIS BOOK4. INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD5. THE WIND IS BLIND6. TIME’S REVERSALS A DAUGHTER’S PARADOX7. THE THRESHING MACHINE8. WINTER TREES ON THE HORIZON9. TO SLEEP10. “THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS” (IN THE BACH-GOUNOD “AVE MARIA”)11. IN HONOUR OF AMERICA (1917) IN ANTITHESIS TO ROSSETTI’S “ON THE REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS”12. “LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”13. REFLEXIONS (I) IN IRELAND, 192014. REFLEXIONS (II) IN “OTHELLO”15. REFLEXIONS (III) IN TWO POETS16. TO CONSCRIPTS “COMPEL THEM TO COME IN”17. THE VOICE OF A BIRD “HE SHALL RISE UP AT THE VOICE OF A BIRD”18. THE LAWS OF VERSE19. THE QUESTION IL POETA MI DISSE, “CHE PENSI?”20. “THE RETURN TO NATURE”21. TO SILENCE “SPACE, THE BOUND OF A SOLID”: SILENCE, THEN, THE FORM OF A MELODY22. THE ENGLISH METRES23. “RIVERS UNKNOWN TO SONG”24. TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST THE SON OF MAN25. A COMPARISON IN A SEASIDE FIELD26. SURMISE THE TRACK OF A HUMAN MOOD27. TO ANTIQUITY “... REVERENCE FOR OUR FATHERS, WITH THEIR STORES OF EXPERIENCES”28. CHRISTMAS NIGHT “IF I CANNOT SEE THEE PRESENT I WILL MOURN THEE ABSENT, FOR THIS ALSO IS A PROOF OF LOVE”29. THE OCTOBER REDBREAST30. TO “A CERTAIN RICH MAN” “I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN ... FATHER, I BESEECH THEE ... LEST THEY COME TO THIS PLACE”31. “EVERLASTING FAREWELLS! AND AGAIN, AND YET AGAIN ... EVERLASTING FAREWELLS!”32. THE POET TO THE BIRDS