Produced by Keren Vergon, Clytie Siddall and PG Distributed Proofreaders GEORGIAN POETRY 1918-1919 EDITED BY SIR EDWARD MARSH TO THOMAS HARDY EIGHTH THOUSAND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP 35 Devonshire Street Theobalds Road W.C.1 MCMXX PREFATORY NOTE This is the fourth volume of the present series. I hope it may be thought to show that what for want of a better word is called Peace has not interfered with the writing of good poetry. Thanks and acknowledgements are due to Messrs. Beaumont, Blackwell, Collins, Constable, Fifield, Heinemann, Seeker, Selwyn & Blount, and Sidgwick & Jackson; and to the Editors of 'The Anglo-French Review', 'The Athenaeum', 'The Chapbook', 'Land and Water', 'The Nation', 'The New Statesman', 'The New Witness', 'The New World', 'The Owl', 'The Spectator', 'To-day', 'Voices', and 'The Westminster Gazette'. E. M. September, 1919. CONTENTS LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Witchcraft: New Style GORDON BOTTOMLEY Littleholme FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Invocation (from 'Poems') Prothalamion February Lochanilaun Lettermore Song The Leaning Elm WILLIAM H. DAVIES Lovely Dames (from 'Forty New Poems') When Yon Full Moon On Hearing Mrs. Woodhouse Play the Harpsichord Birds Oh, Sweet Content! A Child's Pet England (from 'Forty New Poems') The Bell WALTER DE LA MARE The Sunken Garden (from 'Motley') Moonlight The Tryst The Linnet The Veil The Three Strangers (from 'Motley') The Old Men Fare Well JOHN DRINKWATER Deer (from 'Loyalties') Moonlit Apples (from 'Tides') Southampton Bells (from 'Loyalties') Chorus (from 'Lincoln') Habitation (from 'Loyalties') Passage JOHN FREEMAN O Muse Divine The Wakers (from 'Memories of Childhood') The Body Ten O'clock No More The Fugitive The Alde Nearness Night and Night The Herd WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Wings (from 'Home') The Parrots The Cakewalk Driftwood Quiet (from 'Home') Reveille ROBERT GRAVES A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme (from 'Country Sentiment') A Frosty Night True Johnny The Cupboard The Voice of Beauty Drowned Rocky Acres D. H. LAWRENCE Seven Seals (from 'New Poems') HAROLD MONRO Gravity Goldfish Dog The Nightingale Near the House Man Carrying Bale THOMAS MOULT For Bessie in the Garden 'Truly he hath a Sweet Bed' Lovers' Lane ROBERT NICHOLS The Sprig of Lime Seventeen The Stranger 'O Nightingale my Heart' The Pilgrim J. D. C. FELLOW The Temple SIEGFRIED SASSOON