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| Introductory | [xi] |
| Thomas Hardy (1840- ) |
| [In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"] | [3] |
| [Going and Staying] | [4] |
| [The Man He Killed] | [4] |
| Robert Bridges (1844- ) |
| [Winter Nightfall] | [5] |
| [Nightingales] | [7] |
| Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881) |
| [Ode] | [8] |
| William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) |
| [Invictus] | [10] |
| [The Blackbird] | [10] |
| [A Bowl of Roses] | [11] |
| [Before] | [11] |
| [Margaritæ Sorori] | [12] |
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| [Summer Sun] | [13] |
| [Winter-Time] | [14] |
| [Romance] | [15] |
| [Requiem] | [16] |
| Alice Meynell (1850- ) |
| [A Thrush Before Dawn] | [16] |
| Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855-1905) |
| [The Valley of Silence] | [18] |
| [The Vision] | [19] |
| Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) |
| [Requiescat] | [20] |
| [Impression du Matin] | [21] |
| John Davidson (1857-1909) |
| [A Ballad of Hell] | [22] |
| [Imagination] | [26] |
| William Watson (1858- ) |
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| [Ode in May] | [28] |
| [Estrangement] | [30] |
| [Song] | [31] |
| Francis Thompson (1859-1907) |
| [Daisy] | [32] |
| [To Olivia] | [34] |
| [An Arab Love-Song] | [35] |
| A. E. Housman (1859- ) |
| [Reveillé] | [36] |
| [When I Was One-and-Twenty] | [37] |
| [With Rue My Heart is Laden] | [38] |
| [To An Athlete Dying Young] | [38] |
| ["Loveliest of Trees"] | [39] |
| Douglas Hyde (1860- ) |
| [I Shall Not Die for Thee] | [40] |
| Amy Levy (1861-1889) |
| [Epitaph] | [42] |
| [In the Mile End Road] | [42] |
| Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861- ) |
| [Sheep and Lambs] | [43] |
| [All-Souls] | [44] |
| Owen Seaman (1861- ) |
| [To An Old Fogey] | [45] |
| [Thomas of the Light Heart] | [47] |
| Henry Newbolt (1862- ) |
| [Drake's Drum] | [49] |
| Arthur Symons (1865- ) |
| [In the Wood of Finvara] | [50] |
| [Modern Beauty] | [51] |
| William Butler Yeats (1865- ) |
| [The Lake Isle of Innisfree] | [53] |
| [The Song of the Old Mother] | [53] |
| [The Cap and Bells] | [54] |
| [An Old Song Resung] | [55] |
| Rudyard Kipling (1865- ) |
| [Gunga Din] | [57] |
| [The Return] | [61] |
| [The Conundrum of the Workshops] | [63] |
| [An Astrologer's Song] | [66] |
| Richard Le Gallienne (1866- ) |
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| [A Ballad of London] | [69] |
| [Regret] | [70] |
| Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) |
| [Mystic and Cavalier] | [71] |
| [To a Traveller] | [73] |
| Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) |
| [To One in Bedlam] | [74] |
| [You Would Have Understood Me] | [75] |
| "A. E." (George William Russell) (1867- ) |
| [The Great Breath] | [76] |
| [The Unknown God] | [77] |
| Stephen Phillips (1868-1915) |
| [Fragment from "Herod"] | [78] |
| [Beautiful Lie the Dead] | [78] |
| [A Dream] | [79] |
| Laurence Binyon (1869- ) |
| [A Song] | [79] |
| [The House That Was] | [80] |
| Alfred Douglas (1870- ) |
| [The Green River] | [81] |
| T. Sturge Moore (1870- ) |
| [The Dying Swan] | [82] |
| [Silence Sings] | [82] |
| William H. Davies (1870- ) |
| [Days Too Short] | [84] |
| [The Moon] | [85] |
| [The Villain] | [85] |
| [The Example] | [86] |
| Hilaire Belloc (1870- ) |
| [The South Country] | [87] |
| Anthony C. Deane (1870- ) |
| [The Ballad of the Billycock] | [90] |
| [A Rustic Song] | [92] |
| J. M. Synge (1871-1909) |
| [Beg-Innish] | [95] |
| [A Translation from Petrarch] | [96] |
| [To the Oaks of Glencree] | [96] |
| Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906) |
| [A Connaught Lament] | [97] |
| Eva Gore-Booth (1872- ) |
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| [The Waves of Breffny] | [98] |
| [Walls] | [99] |
| Moira O'Neill |
| [A Broken Song] | [99] |
| [Beauty's a Flower] | [100] |
| John McCrae (1872-1918) |
| [In Flanders Fields] | [101] |
| Ford Madox Hueffer (1873- ) |
| [Clair de Lune] | [102] |
| [There Shall Be More Joy] | [104] |
| Walter De la Mare (1873- ) |
| [The Listeners] | [106] |
| [An Epitaph] | [107] |
| [Tired Tim] | [108] |
| [Old Susan] | [108] |
| [Nod] | [109] |
| G. K. Chesterton (1874- ) |
| [Lepanto] | [111] |
| [A Prayer in Darkness] | [118] |
| [The Donkey] | [119] |
| Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878- ) |
| [Prelude] | [120] |
| [The Stone] | [121] |
| [Sight] | [124] |
| John Masefield (1878- ) |
| [A Consecration] | [126] |
| [Sea-Fever] | [127] |
| [Rounding the Horn] | [128] |
| [The Choice] | [131] |
| [Sonnet] | [132] |
| Lord Dunsany (1878- ) |
| [Songs from an Evil Wood] | [133] |
| Edward Thomas (1878-1917) |
| [If I Should Ever By Chance] | [136] |
| [Tall Nettles] | [137] |
| [Fifty Faggots] | [137] |
| [Cock-Crow] | [138] |
| Seumas O'Sullivan (1879- ) |
| [Praise] | [139] |
| Ralph Hodgson |
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| [Eve] | [140] |
| [Time, You Old Gipsy Man] | [142] |
| [The Birdcatcher] | [144] |
| [The Mystery] | [144] |
| Harold Monro (1879- ) |
| [The Nightingale Near the House] | [145] |
| [Every Thing] | [146] |
| [Strange Meetings] | [149] |
| T. M. Kettle (1880-1916) |
| [To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God] | [150] |
| Alfred Noyes (1880- ) |
| [Sherwood] | [151] |
| [The Barrel-Organ] | [154] |
| [Epilogue] | [161] |
| Padraic Colum (1881- ) |
| [The Plougher] | [162] |
| [An Old Woman of the Roads] | [164] |
| Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) (1881- ) |
| [I Am the Mountainy Singer] | [165] |
| [The Old Woman] | [166] |
| James Stephens (1882- ) |
| [The Shell] | [167] |
| [What Tomas An Buile Said In a Pub] | [168] |
| [To the Four Courts, Please] | [169] |
| John Drinkwater (1882- ) |
| [Reciprocity] | [170] |
| [A Town Window] | [170] |
| James Joyce (1882- ) |
| [I Hear an Army] | [171] |
| J. C. Squire (1884- ) |
| [A House] | [172] |
| Lascelles Abercrombie (1884- ) |
| [From "Vashti"] | [175] |
| [Song] | [176] |
| James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) |
| [The Old Ships] | [178] |
| D. H. Lawrence (1885- ) |
| [People] | [180] |
| [Piano] | [180] |
| John Freeman (1885- ) |
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| [Stone Trees] | [181] |
| Shane Leslie (1886- ) |
| [Fleet Street] | [183] |
| [The Pater of the Cannon] | [183] |
| Frances Cornford (1886- ) |
| [Preëxistence] | [184] |
| Anna Wickham |
| [The Singer] | [186] |
| [Reality] | [186] |
| [Song] | [187] |
| Siegfried Sassoon (1886- ) |
| [To Victory] | [189] |
| [Dreamers] | [190] |
| [The Rear-Guard] | [190] |
| [Thrushes] | [191] |
| [Aftermath] | [192] |
| Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) |
| [The Great Lover] | [195] |
| [Dust] | [198] |
| [The Soldier] | [200] |
| W. M. Letts (1887- ) |
| [Grandeur] | [201] |
| [The Spires of Oxford] | [203] |
| Francis Brett Young |
| [Lochanilaun] | [204] |
| F. S. Flint |
| [London] | [205] |
| Edith Sitwell |
| [The Web of Eros] | [206] |
| [Interlude] | [207] |
| F. W. Harvey (1888- ) |
| [The Bugler] | [208] |
| T. P. Cameron Wilson (1889-1918) |
| [Sportsmen in Paradise] | [209] |
| W. J. Turner (1889- ) |
| [Romance] | [210] |
| Patrick MacGill (1890) |
| [By-the-Way] | [211] |
| [Death and the Fairies] | [212] |
| Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917) |
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| [An Evening in England] | [213] |
| [Evening Clouds] | [214] |
| Irene Rutherford McLeod (1891- ) |
| ["Is Love, then, so Simple"] | [215] |
| [Lone Dog] | [215] |
| Richard Aldington (1892- ) |
| [Prelude] | [216] |
| [Images] | [217] |
| [At the British Museum] | [218] |
| Edward Shanks (1892- ) |
| [Complaint] | [219] |
| Osbert Sitwell (1892- ) |
| [The Blind Pedlar] | [220] |
| [Progress] | [221] |
| Robert Nichols (1893- ) |
| [Nearer] | [222] |
| Charles H. Sorley (1895-1915) |
| [Two Sonnets] | [223] |
| [To Germany] | [225] |
| Robert Graves (1895- ) |
| [It's a Queer Time] | [226] |
| [A Pinch of Salt] | [227] |
| [I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?] | [228] |
| [The Last Post] | [229] |
| Index of Authors and Poems | [231] |