“ADVENTURERS ALL” SERIES No. XXVII. [Illustration: XXVII] LONDON SONNETS [Illustration: Adventurers All. _A SERIES OF YOUNG POETS UNKNOWN TO FAME._ Come my friends.... ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down.... It may be we shall touch the happy isles. Yet our purpose holds ... to sail beyond the sunset. _Ulysses_] [Illustration: LONDON SONNETS BY HUMBERT WOLFE [Illustration: text decoration] OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET, 1920] DEDICATION. These were the first anemones-- God only in his heaven sees How moving on their small green feet They blossomed in a London street, From a cool valley, as I guess, Beneath a hill in Lyonesse. CONTENTS. [Illustration: text decoration] Page Dedication 4 LONDON PSEUDO-SONNETS: The Old Clothes Dealer 9 Coves at Hampton Court 10 One Man Returns 11 The Bun-Shop 12 The Fried Fish-Shop 13 The Streets Behind the Tottenham Court Road 14 The Yorkshire Grey 15 Wardour Street 16 The Suburbs 17 The Last London Sonnet 18 OTHER VERSE: “Sometimes when I Think of Love” 21 Old 26 The Song of the Gambucinos 28 February 14 29 Pierrot 30 The Dead Man in the Pool 32 Dead Lover 35 The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings 36 Wheels 1919 38 The Well 41 Judas 43 The Night 44