The Call of the Mountains

and other Poems

By

James E. Pickering

Author of
"The King's Temptation," "The Cap of Care," etc.

London
A. C. Fifield, Clifford's Inn, E.C.
1913

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The Cap of Care

By

James E. Pickering

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"Mr. Pickering's metrical faculties are as deft and cunning as those of anyone now writing verse."—Athenæum.

A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn, E.C.

Contents

[The Call of the Mountains]
[The Old Manor House]
[The Science Master]
[Through the Centuries]
[Winter]
[Pain and Death]
[Switzerland]
[Burial at Sea]
[The Master of the Marionettes]
[Love's Counterfeit]
[The Most Precious Thing]
[Autumn]
[To L]
[Duty]

Sonnets

[Glastonbury]
[Galileo]
[Stratford-on-Avon]
[To a Daffodil]
[The Appian Way]
[From the Fields]
[Vénus de Milo]
[Fire]