OXFORD POETRY
1918
New York Agents:
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
Fourth Avenue and 30th Street
OXFORD POETRY
1918
EDITED BY
T. W. E., E. F. A. G., and D. L. S.
OXFORD
B. H. BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET
1918
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| ANON (Non-Coll.) | |
| By Proxy | [1] |
| BASIL BLACKWELL (Merton) | |
| At the Pauper Asylum | [2] |
| C. BURCHARDT (Magdalen) | |
| Complaint | [3] |
| M. St. CLARE BYRNE (Somerville) | |
| “And One Fell by the Wayside...” | [4] |
| J. E. A. CARVER (Magdalen) | |
| Evening | [5] |
| E. P. CHASE (Magdalen) | |
| On a Birthday | [6] |
| WILFRED CHILDE (Magdalen) | |
| Sea Fairy | [7] |
| Age Gothique Doré | [8] |
| Rosa Innocens | [9] |
| GERALD H. CROW (Hertford) | |
| Trench Vision | [10] |
| Madhouse Garden | [11] |
| G. D. DESMOND (Somerville) | |
| Home-coming | [12] |
| Age | [13] |
| E. C. DICKINSON (Non-Coll.) | |
| A Tavern Lilt | [14] |
| T. W. EARP (Exeter) | |
| Our Lady of Light | [16] |
| E. F. A. GEACH (Home Student) | |
| Romance | [18] |
| Retrospect | [18] |
| E. F. A. GEACH (Home Student) AND D. E. A. WALLACE (Somerville) | |
| Ballade of Ladies who Died for Love | [19] |
| K. GIBBERD (St. Hilda’s Hall) | |
| When I am Old | [20] |
| RUSSELL GREEN (Queen’s) | |
| Faith | [21] |
| Hills | [22] |
| REGINALD HARRIS (C.C.C.) | |
| Song | [23] |
| Fragment from the “Lament for Bion” | [24] |
| MERCY HARVEY (St. Hilda’s Hall) | |
| Song | [25] |
| H. C. HARWOOD (Balliol) | |
| Incompatibility | [26] |
| Dedication of an Unwritten Masterpiece to a Woman as yet Unknown | [27] |
| LUISA HEWITT (Home Student) | |
| “You lit your Cigarette from Mine” | [28] |
| Ave atque Vale | [29] |
| R. M. HEWITT (Keble) | |
| Iter Persicum | [30] |
| Gaudium in Cœlo | [31] |
| E. E. St. L. HILL (Keble) | |
| Parting | [32] |
| ALDOUS HUXLEY (Balliol) | |
| Two Songs | [33] |
| Song of Poplars | [34] |
| C. R. JURY (Magdalen) | |
| A Sonnet to a Friend | [35] |
| An Epitaph | [35] |
| MARGARET LEIGH (Somerville) | |
| Two Epitaphs | [36] |
| Sonnet: The Journalist | [37] |
| E. H. W. MEYERSTEIN (Magdalen) | |
| The Incantation | [38] |
| ROBERT NICHOLS (Trinity) | |
| Closing Lines from “Polyphemus his Passion” | [41] |
| L. RICE-OXLEY (Keble) | |
| The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury | [45] |
| DOROTHY L. SAYERS (Somerville) | |
| Pygmalion | [46] |
| HELEN SIMPSON (Home Student) | |
| The Head of the Table | [49] |
| Aeroplane, June 6th | [50] |
| L. A. G. STRONG (Wadham) | |
| Rufus Prays | [51] |
| In the Garden | [52] |
| SHERARD VINES (New College) | |
| Permission | [53] |
| Summer | [54] |
| D. E. A. WALLACE (Somerville) | |
| River-Pools | [55] |
| Life and I | [56] |
ANON
(NON-COLL.)
BY PROXY
YOU will not lure me with your charms
Or win me back again
Because you held me in your arms
And I forgot my pain.
’Twas not for you my spirit yearned
That night of fierce desire;
The flame in which we met and burned
Drew from an alien fire.
I shall not win my lady’s grace,
Her eyes are still and cold;
I may not find a resting-place
Before my life grows old.
One thought alone rejoicing stirs
And shall, when all is done—
That in your arms my soul met hers
And we became as one.
BASIL BLACKWELL
(MERTON)