The Poems of Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
COMPLETE EDITION
MCCLELLAND & STEWART PUBLISHERS - TORONTO
Copyright. Canada, 1923 by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto
Printed in Canada
To W.M.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This volume contains the whole of Mrs. Meynell's poetry: the early volume of Preludes ; the Poems, issued in 1893, of which nine impressions were printed before 1913, when it was incorporated in the Collected Edition; Later Poems, issued in 1901, also incorporated in the edition of 1913; Poems: Collected Edition, issued in 1913, of which the eighth impression was printed in 1919, and a ninth with additions in 1921; A Father of Women, and other Poems, issued in 1918, and included in the Collected Edition in 1919; and finally Last Poems, issued in February, 1923.
THE CONTENTS

O Spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise In the young children's eyes. But I have learnt the years, and know the yet Leaf-folded violet. Mine ear, awake to silence, can foretell The cuckoo's fitful bell. I wander in a grey time that encloses June and the wild hedge-roses. A year's procession of the flowers doth pass My feet, along the grass. And all you wild birds silent yet, I know The notes that stir you so, Your songs yet half devised in the dim dear Beginnings of the year. In these young days you meditate your part; I have it all by heart.