Poems

by Alice Meynell

Transcribed from the 1903 John Lane edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

Poems by Alice Meynell

Contents:

SONNET—MY HEART SHALL BE THY GARDEN
SONNET—THOUGHTS IN SEPARATION
TO A POET
SONG OF THE SPRING TO THE SUMMER
TO THE BELOVED
MEDITATION
TO THE BELOVED DEAD—A LAMENT
SONNET
IN AUTUMN
A LETTER FROM A GIRL TO HER OWN OLD AGE
SONG
BUILDERS OF RUINS
SONNET
SONG OF THE DAY TO THE NIGHT
‘SOEUR MONIQUE’
IN EARLY SPRING
PARTED
REGRETS
SONG
SONNET—IN FEBRUARY
SAN LORENZO GIUSTINIANI’S MOTHER
SONNET—THE LOVE OF NARCISSUS
TO A LOST MELODY
SONNET—THE POET TO NATURE
THE POET TO HIS CHILDHOOD
SONNET
AN UNMARKED FESTIVAL
SONNET—THE NEOPHYTE
SONNET—SPRING ON THE ALBAN HILLS
SONG OF THE NIGHT AT DAYBREAK
SONNET—TO A DAISY
SONNET—TO ONE POEM IN A SILENT TIME
FUTURE POETRY
THE POET SINGS TO HER POET
A POET’S SONNET
THE MODERN POET
AFTER A PARTING
RENOUNCEMENT
VENI CREATOR

DEDICATION

TO W. M.

Most of these verses were written in the author’s early youth, and were published in a volume called ‘Preludes,’ now out of print. Other poems, representing the same transitory and early thoughts, which appeared in that volume, are now omitted as cruder than the rest; and their place is taken by the few verses written in maturer years.

SONNET—MY HEART SHALL BE THY GARDEN

My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,
Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,
From root to crowning petal, thine alone.