Modern British Poetry

English poetry -- 19th century; English poetry -- 20th century
JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909)
    A Ballad of Hell                                 22
    Imagination                                      26

WILLIAM WATSON (1858-    )
    Ode in May                                       28
    Estrangement                                     30
    Song                                             31

FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
    Daisy                                            32
    To Olivia                                        34
    An Arab Love-Song                                35

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-    )
    Reveille                                         36
    When I Was One-and-Twenty                        37
    With Rue My Heart is Laden                       38
    To An Athlete Dying Young                        38
    "Loveliest of Trees"                             39

DOUGLAS HYDE (1860-    )
    I Shall Not Die for Thee                         40

AMY LEVY (1861-1889)
    Epitaph                                          42
    In the Mile End Road                             42

KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON (1861-    )
    Sheep and Lambs                                  43
    All-Souls                                        44

OWEN SEAMAN (1861-    )
    To An Old Fogey                                  45
    Thomas of the Light Heart                        47

HENRY NEWBOLT (1862-    )
    Drake's Drum                                     49

ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-    )
    In the Wood of Finvara                           50
    Modern Beauty                                    51

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-    )
    The Lake Isle of Innisfree                       53
    The Song of the Old Mother                       53
    The Cap and Bells                                54
    An Old Song Resung                               55

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-    )
    Gunga Din                                        57
    The Return                                       61
    The Conundrum of the Workshops                   63
    An Astrologer's Song                             66

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE (1866-    )
    A Ballad of London                               69
    Regret                                           70

LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902)
    Mystic and Cavalier                              71
    To a Traveller                                   73

ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
    To One in Bedlam                                 74
    You Would Have Understood Me                     75

"A. E." (_George William Russell_) (1867-    )
    The Great Breath                                 76
    The Unknown God                                  77

STEPHEN PHILLIPS (1868-1915)
    Fragment from "Herod"                            78
    Beautiful Lie the Dead                           78
    A Dream                                          79
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Modern British Poetry

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