Alice Meynell
From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
THE POEMS
OF
ALICE MEYNELL
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
[In Early Spring]
[To the Beloved]
[An Unmarked Festival]
[In Autumn]
[Parted]
["Soeur Monique"]
[Regrets]
[The Visiting Sea]
[After a Parting]
[Builders of Ruins]
[Thoughts in Separation]
[The Garden]
[Your Own Fair Youth]
[The Young Neophyte]
[Spring on the Alban Hills]
[In February]
[A Shattered Lute]
[Renouncement]
[To a Daisy]
[San Lorenzo's Mother]
[The Lover Urges the Better Thrift]
[Cradle-Song at Twilight]
[Song of the Night at Daybreak]
[A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age]
[Advent Meditation]
[The Love of Narcissus]
[To Any Poet]
[To One poem in a Silent Time]
[The Moon to the Sun]
[The Spring to the Summer]
[The Day to the Night]
[A Poet of one Mood]
[A Song of Derivations]
[Singers to Come]
[Unlinked]
[The Shepherdess]
[The Two Poets]
[The Lady Poverty]
[November Blue]
[A Dead Harvest]
[The Watershed (for R. T.)]
[The Joyous Wanderer]
[The Rainy Summer]
[The Roaring Frost]
[West Wind in Winter]
[The Fold]
["Why wilt thou Chide?"]
[Veneration of Images]
["I am the Way"]
[Via, et Veritas, et Vita]
[Parentage]
[The Modern Mother]
[Unto us a Son is Given]
[Veni Creator]
[Two Boyhoods]
[To Sylvia]
[Saint Catherine of Siena]
[Chimes]
[A Poet's Wife]
[Messina, 1908]
[The Unknown God]
[A General Communion]
[The Fugitive]
[In Portugal, 1912]
[The Crucifixion]
[The Newer Vainglory]
[In Manchester Square]
[Maternity]
[The First Snow]
[The Courts]
[The Launch]
[To the Body]
[The Unexpected Peril]
[Christ in the Universe]
[Beyond Knowledge]
[Easter Night]
[A Father of Women]
[Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle]
[Nurse Edith Cavell]
[Summer in England, 1914]
[To Tintoretto in Venice]
[A Thrush before Dawn]
[The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries]
[To O——, of Her Dark Eyes]
[The Treasure]
[A Wind of Clear Weather in England]
[In Sleep]
[The Divine Privilege]
[Free Will]
[The Two Questions]
[The Lord's Prayer]
[The Poet and His Book]
[Intimations of Mortality]
[The Wind is Blind]
[Time's Reversals]
[The Threshing Machine]
[Winter Trees on the Horizon]
[To Sleep]
[The Marriage of True Minds]
[In Honour of America, 1917]
[Lord, I owe Thee a Death]
[Reflections]
[To Conscripts]
[The Voice of a Bird]
[The Question]
[The Laws of Verse]
["The Return to Nature"]
[To Silence]
[The English Metres]
["Rivers Unknown to Song"]
[To the Mother of Christ the Son of Man]
[A Comparison]
[Surmise]
[To Antiquity]
[Christmas Night]
[The October Redbreast]
[To "a Certain Rich Man"]
["Everlasting Farewells"]
[The Poet to the Birds]