Miscellany of Poetry / 1919

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Miscellany of Poetry 1919 edited by W. Kean Seymour With decorations by Doris Palmer, Cecil Palmer and Hayward To Sir Arthur Quiller-couch

[Table of Contents]

[Prefatory Note]
Laurence Binyon	[Song] [Commercial] [Numbers] [The Children Dancing]
F. V. Branford	[Farewell to Mathematics] [Return] [Over the Dead]
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	[Elegy in a Country Churchyard] [The Ballad of St. Barbara]
Richard Church	[Psyche goes forth to Life]
William H. Davies	[The Villain] [Bird and Brook] [Passion's Hounds] [The Truth] [The Force of Love] [April's Lambs]
Geoffrey Dearmer	[Nous Autres] [She to Him]
John Drinkwater	[Malediction] [Spectral ]
Wilfred Wilson Gibson	[In War-Time] [Troopship ] [The Conscript ] [Air-Raid ] [In War-Time ] [Ragtime ] [Leave ] [Bacchanal ]
Louis Golding	[Shepherd Singing Ragtime] [The Singer of High State]
Gerald Gould	[Freedoms (Eight Sonnets)]
Laurence Housman	[Summer Night]
Richard le Gallienne	[The Palaces of The Rose]
Rose Macaulay	[Peace, June 28th, 1919]
Eugene Mason	[Antony and Cleopatra]
Theodore Maynard	[Dirge] [Desideravi] [Laus Deo!]
T. Sturge Moore	[Aforetime]
Thomas Moult	[Down here the Hawthorn] [Invocation]
Robert Nichols	[On Seeing a Portrait of Blake]
Eden Philpotts	[The Fall] [Ghosties at the Wedding]
Arthur K. Sabin	[Four Lyrics]
Margaret Sackville	[The Return] [To ——]
William Kean Seymour	[Fruitage] [In the Wood] [Siesta] [To One who Eats Larks] [If Beauty Came to You]
Horace Shipp	[Prison] [The Sixth Day]
Edith Sitwell	[Eventail] [The Lady with the Sewing Machine] [Portrait of a Barmaid] [Solo for Ear-Trumpet]
Muriel Stuart	[The Father] [The Shore] [Thélus Wood] [The Thief of Beauty]
W. R. Titterton	[The High Wall] [The Broken Sword] [Night-Shapes] [The Silent People]
E. H. Visiak	[Lamps and Lanterns] [Stranded]
Alec Waugh	[Rubble]
Charles Williams	[Christmas] [Briseis]
[Bibliography]

• [Prefatory Note]

• Laurence Binyon

• F. V. Branford

• Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• Richard Church

• William H. Davies

• Geoffrey Dearmer

• John Drinkwater

• Wilfred Wilson Gibson

1. [Troopship ]
2. [The Conscript ]
3. [Air-Raid ]
4. [In War-Time ]
5. [Ragtime ]
6. [Leave ]
7. [Bacchanal ]

• Louis Golding

• Gerald Gould

• Laurence Housman

• Richard le Gallienne

• Rose Macaulay

• Eugene Mason

• Theodore Maynard

• T. Sturge Moore

• Thomas Moult

• Robert Nichols

• Eden Philpotts

• Arthur K. Sabin

• Margaret Sackville

• William Kean Seymour

• Horace Shipp

• Edith Sitwell

• Muriel Stuart

• W. R. Titterton

• E. H. Visiak

• Alec Waugh

• Charles Williams

• [Bibliography]

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[Prefatory Note]

This

Miscellany of Poetry, 1919

, is issued to the public as a truly catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form — a fact which surely gives the

Miscellany

an unique place among modern collections. My deep thanks are due to my fellow-contributors for their generous and hearty co-operation, and to the editors of the

English Review, To-day, Voices, New Witness, Observer, Saturday Westminster, Art and Letters, Cambridge Magazine

and the

Nation

for permission to reprint certain poems.

W. K. S.

September, 1919

[Contents]

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[Laurence Binyon]

Song

For Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth,
There is no measure upon earth.
Nay, they wither, root and stem,
If an end be set to them.
Overbrim and overflow,
If your own heart you would know;
For the spirit born to bless
Lives but in its own excess.

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