Modern British Poetry

English poetry -- 19th century; English poetry -- 20th century
For the selections from _Poems_ by G. K. Chesterton,
     _Ballads and Songs_ by John Davidson, _The Collected Poems
     of Rupert Brooke_, _Admirals All_ by Henry Newbolt, _Herod_
     and _Lyrics and Dramas_ by Stephen Phillips, _The Hope of
     the World and Other Poems_ by William Watson, and _In Cap
     and Bells_ by Owen Seaman.

  THE LONDON MERCURY--

     For "Going and Staying" by Thomas Hardy and "The House That
     Was" by Laurence Binyon.

  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY--

     For the selections from _Fires_ and _Borderlands and
     Thoroughfares_ by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, _Poems_ by Ralph
     Hodgson, the sonnet from _Good Friday and Other Poems_ by
     John Masefield, and the passage (entitled in this volume
     "Rounding the Horn") from "Dauber" in _The Story of a
     Round-House_ by John Masefield.

  G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS--

     For the title poem from _In Flanders Fields_ by John McCrae.

  THE POETRY BOOKSHOP (England)--

     For two excerpts from _Strange Meetings_ by Harold Monro and
     for the poems from the biennial anthologies, _Georgian
     Poetry_.

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS--

     For the quotations from _Poems_ by William Ernest Henley.

  FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY--

     For the poem from _Ardours and Endurances_ by Robert
     Nichols.

  LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., as the representatives of B. H.
     BLACKWELL, of Oxford--

     For a poem by Edith Sitwell from _The Mother_.




CONTENTS


                                                   PAGE

INTRODUCTORY                                         xi

THOMAS HARDY (1840-    )
    In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"              3
    Going and Staying                                 4
    The Man He Killed                                 4

ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-    )
    Winter Nightfall                                  5
    Nightingales                                      7

ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881)
    Ode                                               8

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
    Invictus                                         10
    The Blackbird                                    10
    A Bowl of Roses                                  11
    Before                                           11
    Margaritae Sorori                                 12

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)
    Summer Sun                                       13
    Winter-Time                                      14
    Romance                                          15
    Requiem                                          16

ALICE MEYNELL (1850-    )
    A Thrush Before Dawn                             16

FIONA MACLEOD (_William Sharp_) (1855-1905)
    The Valley of Silence                            18
    The Vision                                       19

OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)
    Requiescat                                       20
    Impression du Matin                              21
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