Sorrow of War: Poems

by Louis Golding

SORROW OF WAR

POEMS

BY

LOUIS GOLDING

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1919

FOR
MOTHER
AND THE
OTHER MOTHER

Certain of these poems have appeared in the "English Review," "To-Day," the "Englishwoman," the "Red Triangle," the "Nation," the "Cambridge Magazine," the "Sphere," the "Herald," the "Manchester Guardian," and the "Westminster Gazette."

To the editors of these journals I tender my acknowledgments.

CONTENTS

[Lilac, Laburnum]
[Streets of Gold]
["In the Gallery where the Fat Men go"]
[Dead in Gallipoli]
[A Journey South]
[The New Trade]
[The Woman who Shrieked against Peace]
[The Women at the Corners Stand]
[Joining-up]
[During the Battle]
[Jack]
[German Boy]
[Skylark and Dawn]
[Jack of April]
[Statesmen Debonair]
[Over in Flanders]
[Wild Weather]
[Broken Bodies]
[A Thought]
[The Vintner]
[For now comes Summer]
[The Advent of Mars]
[Prophet and Fool]
[Whatever Path I walk upon]
[London Magdalene]
[Secret Girl]
[Lanky Tim]
[Mrs. Briggs]
[Athens Now]
[Down Tottenham Court Road]
[In a Station]
[Liza]
[Women of the Night]
[I Standing in the Street]
[Slum Evening]
[Fires of Change]
[Poetry]
[The Prisoner]
[Nerves]
[A Poet]
[For My Friend]
["I shall be splendidly and tensely Young"]
["I"]
[I know not whence my Poems come]
[Lyrria]
[Faringdon from Salonica]
[Call of the Plover]
[The Gallant Road]
[The Quest]
[Having finished "Jude the Obscure"]
[Ghost and Body]
[Gallop]
[We Lads who Barter Rhymes]
[Who knows Me?]
[Judæus Errans]
[Cold Stars]
[Reactionary]
[Late]
[Wind of Black Night]
[Yellow Satins]
[My Mother's Portrait]
[To A. L. O.]
[The Dark Knight of the Road]
[To the Swift]
[Green Wind]
[The Midmost Field in Kent]
[Murmuryngeham]
[Winchester Downs]
[Cycling in October]
[The Shepherd]
[Derwentwater]
["I vowed that I would be a Tree"]
[Wounded Soldiers]
[Still Life in France]
[I Dream'd I Died]
[Flowers in War]
[Evening—Kent]
[Black Magic]
[A Soldier Dying]
[At Last War Ends]