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OXFORD POETRY
1920
EDITED BY
V. M. B., C. H. B. K., A. P.
OXFORD
BASIL BLACKWELL
1920
The following authors wish to make acknowledgment to the editors of the publications mentioned for permission kindly given to reprint: Mr. E. Blunden, The Nation (“Forefathers”), Voices (“Sheet Lightning”); Miss V. M. Brittain, The Oxford Chronicle (“Boar’s Hill,” and “The Lament of the Demobilized”); Mr. R. Campbell, The Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany (“Bongwi’s Theology”); Mr. L. Golding, Voices (“The Moon-Clock,” “Cold Branch,” “I Seek a Wild Star”); Mr. A. Porter, Voices (“Life and Luxury,” “A Far Country”); Mr. E. Rickword, The London Mercury (“Intimacy”); Mr. W. Force Stead, The Poetry Review; Mr. L. A. G. Strong, Coterie (“A Devon Rhyme,” “Christopher Marlye”), The Oxford Chronicle (“From the Greek”).
CONTENTS
| [EDMUND BLUNDEN] (Queen’s) | PAGE |
| Sheet Lightning | [1] |
| Forefathers | [3] |
| [G. H. BONNER] (Magdalen) | |
| Sonnet | [5] |
| [VERA M. BRITTAIN] (Somerville) | |
| Boar’s Hill, October, 1919 | [6] |
| The Lament of the Demobilized | [7] |
| Daphne | [8] |
| [G. A. FIELDING BUCKNALL] (Exeter) | |
| Unto Dust | [9] |
| [ROY CAMPBELL] (Merton) | |
| The Porpoise | [10] |
| Bongwi’s Theology | [11] |
| [ERIC DICKINSON] (Exeter) | |
| Three Sonnets | [12] |
| [LOUIS GOLDING] (Queen’s) | |
| The Moon-Clock | [14] |
| Cold Branch in the Black Air | [15] |
| I Seek a Wild Star | [16] |
| [ROBERT GRAVES] (St. John’s) | |
| Morning Phœnix | [17] |
| [L. P. HARTLEY] (Balliol) | |
| Candlemas | [18] |
| [B. HIGGINS] (B.N.C.) | |
| One Soldier | [21] |
| [WINIFRED HOLTBY] (Somerville) | |
| The Dead Man | [22] |
| [R. W. HUGHES] (Oriel) | |
| The Rolling Saint | [23] |
| The Song of Proud James | [25] |
| [E. W. JACOT] (Queen’s) | |
| Here’s a Daffodil | [26] |
| Nursery Rhymes | [26] |
| [G. H. JOHNSTONE] (Merton) | |
| Summer | [27] |
| “Ipse Ego ...” | [28] |
| [C. H. B. KITCHIN] (Exeter) | |
| Opening Scene from “Amphitryon” | [29] |
| [V. de S. PINTO] (Christ Church) | |
| Art | [38] |
| [ALAN PORTER] (Queen’s) | |
| Life and Luxury | [39] |
| A Far Country | [44] |
| [HILDA REID] (Somerville) | |
| The Magnanimity of Beasts | [45] |
| [EDGELL RICKWORD] (Pembroke) | |
| Intimacy | [46] |
| Grave Joys | [47] |
| Advice to a Girl from the Wars | [48] |
| Yegor | [49] |
| Strange Elements | [50] |
| [W. FORCE STEAD] (Queen’s) | |
| The Burden of Babylon | [51] |
| [L. A. G. STRONG] (Wadham) | |
| Frost | [55] |
| Vera Venvstas | [55] |
| A Baby | [56] |
| From the Greek | [56] |
| A Devon Rhyme | [56] |
| The Bird Man | [57] |
| Christopher Marlye | [58] |