“ENGLAND AND YESTERDAY” “England and Yesterday” A BOOK OF SHORT POEMS BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 1898 CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. CONTENTS. PAGE LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey 3 II. Fog 4 III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula 5 IV. Strikers in Hyde Park 6 V. Changes in the Temple 7 VI. The Lights of London 8 VII. Doves 9 VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum 10 IX. Sunday Chimes in the City 11 X. A Porch in Belgravia 12 XI. York Stairs 13 XII. In the Docks 14 OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE BETWEEN 1890 AND 1895. I. The Tow-Path 17 II. The Old Dial of Corpus 18 III. Ad Antiquarium 19 IV. Rooks in New College Gardens 20 V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford 21 VI. On the Same (_continued_) 22 VII. A December Walk 23 VIII. Undertones at Magdalen 24 IX. Port Meadow 25 X. Martyrs’ Memorial 26 XI. A Last View 27 XII. Retrieval 28