Sorrow of War: Poems
POEMS
LOUIS GOLDING
METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
First Published in 1919
FOR MOTHER AND THE OTHER MOTHER
Certain of these poems have appeared in the English Review, To-Day, the Englishwoman, the Red Triangle, the Nation, the Cambridge Magazine, the Sphere, the Herald, the Manchester Guardian, and the Westminster Gazette.
To the editors of these journals I tender my acknowledgments.
CONTENTS
Lilac, lilac, laburnum, How shall you bloom this Spring? Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you sing?
Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you lift your singing head? Lilac, lilac, laburnum, Shall not your blossom be fiery red?
Lilac, laburnum, gathering birds...?
Louis Golding
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SORROW OF WAR
SORROW OF WAR
LILAC, LABURNUM
STREETS OF GOLD
"IN THE GALLERY WHERE THE FAT MEN GO"
DEAD IN GALLIPOLI
A JOURNEY SOUTH
THE NEW TRADE
THE WOMAN WHO SHRIEKED AGAINST PEACE
THE WOMEN AT THE CORNERS STAND
JOINING-UP
DURING THE BATTLE
JACK
GERMAN BOY
SKYLARK AND DAWN
JACK OF APRIL
STATESMEN DEBONAIR
OVER IN FLANDERS ...
WILD WEATHER
BROKEN BODIES
A THOUGHT
THE VINTNER
FOR NOW COMES SUMMER
THE ADVENT OF MARS
PROPHET AND FOOL
WHATEVER PATH I WALK UPON
LONDON MAGDALENE
SECRET GIRL
LANKY TIM
MRS. BRIGGS
ATHENS NOW
DOWN TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
IN A STATION
LIZA
WOMEN OF THE NIGHT
I STANDING IN THE STREET
SLUM EVENING
FIRES OF CHANGE
POETRY
THE PRISONER
NERVES
A POET
FOR MY FRIEND
"I SHALL BE SPLENDIDLY AND TENSELY YOUNG"
"I"
I KNOW NOT WHENCE MY POEMS COME
LYRRIA
FARINGDON FROM SALONICA
CALL OF THE PLOVER
THE GALLANT ROAD
THE QUEST
HAVING FINISHED "JUDE THE OBSCURE"
GHOST AND BODY
GALLOP
WE LADS WHO BARTER RHYMES
WHO KNOWS ME?
JUDÆUS ERRANS
COLD STARS
REACTIONARY
LATE
WIND OF BLACK NIGHT
YELLOW SATINS
MY MOTHER'S PORTRAIT
TO A. L. O.
THE DARK KNIGHT OF THE ROAD
TO THE SWIFT
GREEN WIND
THE MIDMOST FIELD IN KENT
MURMURYNGEHAM
WINCHESTER DOWNS
CYCLING IN OCTOBER
THE SHEPHERD
DERWENTWATER
"I VOWED THAT I WOULD BE A TREE"
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
STILL LIFE IN FRANCE
I DREAM'D I DIED
FLOWERS IN WAR
EVENING—KENT
BLACK MAGIC
A SOLDIER DYING
AT LAST WAR ENDS
