English poetry -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry
Note ............................................................ 7
Contents ........................................................ 9
I. Two Legends .................................................. 13
Glastonbury ................................................... 13
Legend ........................................................ 21
II. First Poems ................................................. 24
Rime .......................................................... 24
To an Elzevir Cicero .......................................... 26
To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour ......................... 27
Pure Virginia ................................................. 28
A Preface for a Tale I have never told ........................ 29
A Sonnet ...................................................... 30
“It was all in the Black Countree” ............................ 31
To a Pianist .................................................. 32
A Fragment .................................................... 33
Sea Poppies ................................................... 34
“O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind” ..................... 35
Ære Perennius ................................................. 36
The Old Kings ................................................. 37
“O there be Kings whose Treasuries” ........................... 38
A Study ....................................................... 39
The Eremite ................................................... 40
The House of Eld .............................................. 41
The South-west Wind ........................................... 42
Schumann: Erstes Verlust ...................................... 43
“Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky” ............................ 44
“Wind of the Darkness” ........................................ 45
Creator Spiritus .............................................. 46
Wind over the Sea ............................................. 47
Songs on the Downs ............................................ 48
III. Last Poems and “The Burial of Sophocles” ................... 49
“We who have bowed ourselves to Time” ......................... 49
Anglia Valida in Senectute .................................... 50
“Dark is the World our Fathers left us” ....................... 51
Awakening ..................................................... 52
Ave atque Vale ................................................ 53
“O, one came down from Seven Hills” ........................... 55
Sonnet to the British Navy .................................... 57
The Last Meeting .............................................. 58
The New Age and the Old ....................................... 59
To the Cultured ............................................... 60
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