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Alice Meynell From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
THE POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL
COMPLETE EDITION
MCCLELLAND & STEWART PUBLISHERS - TORONTO
Copyright. Canada, 1923 by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto
Printed in Canada
To W.M.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This volume contains the whole of Mrs. Meynell's poetry: the early volume of "Preludes"; the "Poems," issued in 1893, of which nine impressions were printed before 1913, when it was incorporated in the Collected Edition; "Later Poems," issued in 1901, also incorporated in the edition of 1913; "Poems: Collected Edition," issued in 1913, of which the eighth impression was printed in 1919, and a ninth with additions in 1921; "A Father of Women, and other Poems," issued in 1918, and included in the Collected Edition in 1919; and finally "Last Poems," issued in February, 1923.
THE CONTENTS
EARLY POEMS
In Early Spring To the Beloved An Unmarked Festival In Autumn Parted "Soeur Monique" Regrets The Visiting Sea After a Parting Builders of Ruins
SONNETS
Thoughts in Separation The Garden Your Own Fair Youth The Young Neophyte Spring on the Alban Hills In February A Shattered Lute Renouncement To a Daisy
San Lorenzo's Mother The Lover Urges the Better Thrift Cradle-Song at Twilight Song of the Night at Daybreak A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age Advent Meditation
A POET'S FANCIES
The Love of Narcissus To Any Poet To One poem in a Silent Time The Moon to the Sun The Spring to the Summer The Day to the Night A Poet of one Mood A Song of Derivations Singers to Come Unlinked
LATER POEMS
The Shepherdess The Two Poets The Lady Poverty November Blue A Dead Harvest The Watershed (for R. T.) The Joyous Wanderer The Rainy Summer The Roaring Frost West Wind in Winter The Fold "Why wilt thou Chide?" Veneration of Images "I am the Way" Via, et Veritas, et Vita Parentage The Modern Mother Unto us a Son is Given Veni Creator Two Boyhoods To Sylvia Saint Catherine of Siena Chimes A Poet's Wife Messina, 1908 The Unknown God A General Communion The Fugitive In Portugal, 1912 The Crucifixion The Newer Vainglory In Manchester Square Maternity The First Snow The Courts The Launch To the Body The Unexpected Peril Christ in the Universe Beyond Knowledge Easter Night A Father of Women Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle Nurse Edith Cavell Summer in England, 1914 To Tintoretto in Venice A Thrush before Dawn The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries To O——, of Her Dark Eyes The Treasure A Wind of Clear Weather in England In Sleep The Divine Privilege Free Will The Two Questions The Lord's Prayer
LAST POEMS
The Poet and His Book Intimations of Mortality The Wind is Blind Time's Reversals The Threshing Machine Winter Trees on the Horizon To Sleep The Marriage of True Minds In Honour of America, 1917 Lord, I owe Thee a Death Reflections To Conscripts The Voice of a Bird The Question The Laws of Verse "The Return to Nature" To Silence The English Metres "Rivers Unknown to Song" To the Mother of Christ the Son of Man A Comparison Surmise To Antiquity Christmas Night The October Redbreast To "a Certain Rich Man" "Everlasting Farewells" The Poet to the Birds
At Night (to W. M.)