Produced by David Starner, Suzanne Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in | | this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ MODERN BRITISH POETRY EDITED BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER Author of "_Challenge_," "_Including Horace_," "_Modern American Poetry_," etc. NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint the material in this volume, the editor wishes, first of all, to acknowledge his debt to those poets whose co-operation has been of such assistance not only in finally determining upon the choice of their poems, but in collecting dates, biographical data, etc. Secondly, he wishes to thank the publishers, most of whom are holders of the copyrights. The latter indebtedness is specifically acknowledged to: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY and A. P. WATT & SON-- For "The Return" from _The Five Nations_ and for "An Astrologer's Song" from _Rewards and Fairies_ by Rudyard Kipling. Thanks also are due to Mr. Kipling himself for personal permission to reprint these poems. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY and MARTIN SECKER-- For the poem from _Collected Poems_ by James Elroy Flecker. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY-- For the poems from _The Old Huntsman_, _Counter-Attack_ and _Picture Show_ by Siegfried Sassoon. FOUR SEAS COMPANY-- For poems from _War and Love_ by Richard Aldington and _The Mountainy Singer_ by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell). HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY-- For poems from _Peacock Pie_ and _The Listeners_ by Walter de la Mare and _Poems_ by Edward Thomas. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY-- For two poems from _Poems, 1908-1919_, by John Drinkwater, both of which are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers. B. W. HUEBSCH-- For the selections from _Chamber Music_ by James Joyce, _Songs to Save a Soul_ and _Before Dawn_ by Irene Rutherford McLeod, _Amores, Look! We Have Come Through!_, and _New Poems_ by D. H. Lawrence. ALFRED A. KNOPF-- For poems from _The Collected Poems of William H. Davies_, _Fairies and Fusiliers_ by Robert Graves, _The Queen of China and Other Poems_ by Edward Shanks, and _Poems: First Series_ by J. C. Squire. JOHN LANE COMPANY--