Miscellany of Poetry / 1919

This
Miscellany of Poetry, 1919
, is issued to the public as a truly catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form — a fact which surely gives the
Miscellany
an unique place among modern collections. My deep thanks are due to my fellow-contributors for their generous and hearty co-operation, and to the editors of the
English Review, To-day, Voices, New Witness, Observer, Saturday Westminster, Art and Letters, Cambridge Magazine
and the
Nation
for permission to reprint certain poems.
W. K. S.
September, 1919
For Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth, There is no measure upon earth. Nay, they wither, root and stem, If an end be set to them. Overbrim and overflow, If your own heart you would know; For the spirit born to bless Lives but in its own excess.