Shepherd Singing Ragtime, and Other Poems

by Louis Golding

SHEPHERD SINGING
RAGTIME

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

LOUIS GOLDING

LONDON
CHRISTOPHERS
32 BERNERS STREET, W. 1

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

SORROW OF WAR: POEMS
FORWARD FROM BABYLON

FOR JACK

KILLED IN FRANCE, APRIL THE FIFTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND EIGHTEEN

CONTENTS

[Numbers]
[Ploughman at the Plough]
[Creed]
[The Starry Lady]
[When the Great Arm of a Tree Bends Stooping]
[The Moon-Clock]
[Unnamed Fruit]
[Portrait of an Artist]
[Shepherd Singing Ragtime]
[Skylark Noon]
[The Singer of High State]
[Bird, Bird, Bird]
[Green Beads]
[The Wind, Whence Blowing]
[Lady of Babylon]
[This is the Happy Husband, This is He]
[Cold Branch in the Black Air]
[Ghosts Gathering]
[Lyric in Gloom]
[I Seek a Wild Star]
[My Lady of Peace]
[Our Jack]
[Peace]
[Silver-Badged Waiter]
[Sunset over Suburb]
[Shrift among Hills]
[Courage the Dreamers]