October, and Other Poems; with Occasional Verses on the War

OCTOBER AND OTHER POEMS
BY ROBERT BRIDGES POET LAUREATE
TO GENERAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa SOLDIER, STATESMAN, & SEER WITH THE AUTHOR’S HOMAGE

This miscellaneous volume is composed of three sections. The first twelve poems were written in 1913, and printed privately by Mr. Hornby in 1914.
The last of these poems proved to be a “war poem,” and on that follow eighteen pieces which were called forth on occasion during the War, the last being a broadsheet on the surrender of the German ships. All of these verses appeared in some journal or serial. There were a few others, but they are not included in this collection, either because they are lost, or because they show decidedly inferior claims to salvage.
The last six poems or sonnets are of various dates.
R. B.



April adance in play met with his lover May where she came garlanded. The blossoming boughs o’erhead were thrill’d to bursting by the dazzle from the sky and the wild music there that shook the odorous air.