A Father of Women, and Other Poems

by Alice Meynell

Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

A FATHER OF WOMEN
and other poems

by
Alice Meynell

BURNS & OATES Ltd
28 Orchard Street
London W
1917

To
V. L.

THECONTENTS
A Father of Women	Page [7]
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle	[9]
Nurse Edith Cavell	[11]
Summer in England, 1914	[12]
To Tintoretto in Venice	[14]
A Thrush Before Dawn	[16]
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries	[18]
To O—, of her Dark Eyes	[19]
The Treasure	[20]
A Wind of Clear Weather in England	[22]
In Sleep	[23]
The Divine Privilege	[24]
Free Will	[26]
The Two Questions	[27]
The Lord’s Prayer	[29]
Easter Night	[30]

A FATHER OF WOMEN

Ad Sororem E. B.

“Thy father was transfused into thy blood.”

Dryden: Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew.

Our father works in us,
The daughters of his manhood. Not undone
Is he, not wasted, though transmuted thus,
And though he left no son.