| Georgian Poetry
1916-17 edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh 1917 | Fourth Thousand The Poetry Bookshop 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. London W.C.1 MCMXVIII To Edmund Gosse |
| [Romance] [Ecstasy] [Magic] [The Hunter] [The Sky-sent Death ] [The Caves of Auvergne] | from The Hunter from The Hunter from The Hunter from The Hunter from The Hunter |
| [The Fifteen Acres] [a]Check] [Westland Row] [The Turn of the Road] [A Visit from Abroad ] | (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg) |
| [A House] [To a Bull-dog] [The Lily of Malud] | (from The Lily of Malud) (from The Lily of Malud) (from The Lily of Malud) |
| [A Letter Home] [The Kiss] [The Dragon and the Undying] [To Victory] ['They'] ['In the Pink'] [Haunted] [The Death-Bed] | (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) (from The Old Huntsman) |
| ['Ah, Koelue ...'] | |
| [To ——] [The Assault] [Fulfilment] [The Philosopher's Oration] [The Naiads' Music ] [The Prophetic Bard's Oration] [The Tower] | (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) (from Ardours and Endurances) |
| [Two Poems ] [Every Thing] [Solitude] [Week-End] [The Bird at Dawn] | (from Strange Meetings) (from Strange Meetings) (from Strange Meetings) (from Strange Meetings) (from Strange Meetings) |
| [Seven Poems] | (from Lollingdon Downs) |
| [The Gipsy Girl ] [The Bells of Heaven] [Babylon] | (from Poems) (from Poems) (from Poems) |
| [It's a Queer Time] [David and Goliath] [A Pinch of Salt] [Star Talk] [In the Wilderness ] [The Boy in Church] [The Lady Visitor] [Not Dead] | (from Love Poems and Others) |
| [Rupert Brooke] [Tenants] [For G.] [Sea-Change] [Battle][Lament] | (from Friends) (from Friends) (from Friends) (from Friends) (from Battle) (from Whin) |
| [Music Comes] [November Skies] [Discovery ] ['It was the Lovely Moon'] [Stone Trees] [The Pigeons] [Happy is England Now] | (from Stone Trees) (from Stone Trees) (from Stone Trees) (from Stone Trees) (from Stone Trees) (published in To-Day) (from Stone Trees) |
| [May Garden ] [The Midlands] [The Cotswold Farmers ] [In Woods and Meadows] [Reciprocity] [Birthright] [Olton Pools] | (from Tides) (from Tides) (from Tides) (from Tides) (from Olton Pools) (from Olton Pools) |
| [The Scribe] [The Remonstrance ] [The Ghost] [The Fool rings his Bells] | from Child Lovers |
| [The White Cascade] [Easter] [Raptures] [Cowslips and Larks] | |
| [Atlantis] [New Year's Eve, 1913] [In Memoriam, A. M. W. ] | |
| [In Memoriam, A. H.] | |
| [The Volunteer] | |
- W J Turner
- James Stephens
- J. C. Squire
- Siegfried Sassoon
- I. Rosenberg
- Robert Nichols
- Harold Monro
- John Masefield
- Ralph Hodgson
- Robert Graves
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
- John Freeman
- John Drinkwater
- Walter de la Mare
- William H. Davies
- Gordon Bottomley
- Maurice Baring
- Herbert Asquith
[Prefatory Note]
This third book of
Georgian Poetry
carries to the end of a seventh year the presentation of chosen examples from the work of contemporary poets belonging to the younger generation. Of the eighteen writers included, nine appear in the series for the first time. The representation of the older inhabitants has in most cases been restricted in order to allow full space for the new-comers; and the alphabetical order of the names has been reversed, so as to bring more of these into prominence than would otherwise have been done.
My thanks for permission to print the poems are due to Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Constable, Fifield, Heinemann, Macmillan, Elkin Mathews, Martin Secker, and Sidgwick & Jackson, and to the Editors of the
Nation
, the
New Statesman
, and
To-Day
.
E. M.
September 1917.
[W. J. Turner]
Romance
When I was but thirteen or so
I went into a golden land,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
Took me by the hand.
My father died, my brother too,
They passed like fleeting dreams,
I stood where Popocatapetl
In the sunlight gleams.
I dimly heard the master's voice
And boys far-off at play,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
Had stolen me away.
I walked in a great golden dream
To and fro from school —
Shining Popocatapetl
The dusty streets did rule.
I walked home with a gold dark boy
And never a word I'd say,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
Had taken my speech away:
I gazed entranced upon his face
Fairer than any flower —
O shining Popocatapetl
It was thy magic hour:
The houses, people, traffic seemed
Thin fading dreams by day,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
They had stolen my soul away!