The farmer's bride
The Original Edition of The Farmer’s Bride, consisting of seventeen of the poems included in this volume, was first published in 1916.
THE FARMER’S BRIDE
CHARLOTTE MEW
LONDON
THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
35 DEVONSHIRE STREET, THEOBALD’S ROAD, W.C.
1921
Printed in England at
The Westminster Press, Harrow Road,
London, W.
The Author begs to thank the Editors of The Nation , The Westminster Gazette , The New Weekly , The Englishwoman , The Egoist , The Graphic , The Athenæum , and The Monthly Chapbook for permission to reprint some of the poems in this book.
To ——
Charlotte Mary Mew
THE FARMER’S BRIDE
CONTENTS
THE FARMER’S BRIDE
FAME
THE NARROW DOOR
THE FÊTE
BESIDE THE BED
IN NUNHEAD CEMETERY
THE PEDLAR
PÉCHERESSE
THE CHANGELING
KEN
À QUOI BON DIRE
THE QUIET HOUSE
ON THE ASYLUM ROAD
JOUR DES MORTS (Cimetière Montparnasse)
THE FOREST ROAD
MADELEINE IN CHURCH
EXSPECTO RESURRECTIONEM
ON THE ROAD TO THE SEA
THE SUNLIT HOUSE
THE SHADE-CATCHERS
SONG
SATURDAY MARKET
ARRACOMBE WOOD
SEA LOVE
THE ROAD TO KÉRITY
I HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE GATES
THE CENOTAPH