Produced by Clytie Siddall, Keren Vergon, and PG Distributed Proofreaders Published November 1917 GEORGIAN POETRY 1916-1917 TO EDMUND GOSSE FOURTH THOUSAND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP 35 DEVONSHIRE ST. THEOBALDS RD. LONDON W.C.1 MCMXVIII PREFATORY NOTE This third book of 'Georgian Poetry' carries to the end of a seventh year the presentation of chosen examples from the work of contemporary poets belonging to the younger generation. Of the eighteen writers included, nine appear in the series for the first time. The representation of the older inhabitants has in most cases been restricted in order to allow full space for the new-comers; and the alphabetical order of the names has been reversed, so as to bring more of these into prominence than would otherwise have been done. My thanks for permission to print the poems are due to Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Constable, Fifield, Heinemann, Macmillan, Elkin Mathews, Martin Secker, and Sidgwick & Jackson, and to the Editors of the 'Nation', the 'New Statesman', and 'To-Day'. E.M. September 1917. CONTENTS W.J. TURNER Romance (from 'The Hunter') Ecstasy " " Magic " " The Hunter " " The Sky-sent Death " " The Caves of Auvergne JAMES STEPHENS The Fifteen Acres (from 'The Adventures of Seumas Beg') Check " " " Westland Row " " " The Turn of the Road " " A Visit from Abroad " " J. C. SQUIRE A House (from 'The Lily of Malud ') To a Bull-dog " " " The Lily of Malud " " " SIEGFRIED SASSOON A Letter Home (from 'The Old Huntsman') The Kiss " " " The Dragon and the Undying " To Victory " 'They' " 'In the Pink' " Haunted " The Death-Bed " I. ROSENBERG 'Ah, Koelue ...' ROBERT NICHOLS To---- (from 'Ardours and Endurances') The Assault " " " Fulfilment " " " The Philosopher's Oration " The Naiads' Music " " The Prophetic Bard's Oration " The Tower " HAROLD MONRO