Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and other poems

by Humbert Wolfe

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SHYLOCK REASONS WITH
MR. CHESTERTON
AND OTHER POEMS

BY
HUMBERT WOLFE
Author of
“LONDON SONNETS.”
OXFORD
BASIL BLACKWELL
MDCCCCXX

DEDICATION.

ONLY this—that when I’ve done with wearing
Gold words upon my heart and reaching after
My immortality, I shall be hearing
Then, and long afterwards (be sure!) your laughter.

Only this—that when I come to sleeping
And later men appraise me in the quarrels
Of poets and the bays, tell them I’m keeping
No bays, but at my heart a lover’s laurels.

Some of these poems have appeared in “The Saturday Review,” “The Westminster Gazette,” and “The Saturday Westminster Gazette.” They are republished by the courtesy of the editors of those journals.