POEMS

By ELINOR JENKINS

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.
3 Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1915

Copyright, 1915, by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.
All rights reserved

DEDICATION

To
H. S. T.
15·viii·15

FAIN had I given precious things and sweet,
But having neither frankincense nor gem,
Only sad flowers—last year's fading yield
Gathered about that bitter harvest field—
I made a sorry garland out of them,
And laid it where immortelles had been meet.

Contents

PAGE
H. S. T.—Requiescat[11]
The Dead Comrade[12]
The Choice[14]
The House by the Highway[15]
Night in the Suburbs, August, 1914[17]
Autumn Wind[19]
The Battle of the Rivers[20]
A Legend of Ypres[21]
Ecce Homo![22]
April Nights[23]
Rupert Brooke. April, 1915[24]
The Last Evening[25]
The Letter[27]
Frigga. (Up to date)[28]
Farewells à la Mode[29]
Sunset[30]
Sursum Corda[31]
Lying in State[32]
Wind-pedlars[33]
Dulce et Decorum?[35]
Succory[36]
Dreams Trespassing[37]
"What shall be done with all these tears of ours?"[38]
In Hereford Cathedral[39]
Poppyfields[40]
Artificial Light[43]
Epitaph on a Child left Buried Abroad[46]
Veronica[47]
Moonlight[48]
Waking[49]
Feather Boats[50]
The Lovers' Walk[52]