Poems
by
Iris Tree
Decorations by
Curtis Moffat
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMXX
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
[CONTENTS]
| ROCKETS AND ASHES | |
| PAGE | |
| "You Preach to Me of Laws, You Tie My Limbs" | [11] |
| "We Are the Caretakers of Empty Houses" | [12] |
| "From Far Away the Lost Adventures Gleam" | [13] |
| "Give Me, O God, the Power of Laughter Still" | [14] |
| "Winding Down the Street in Wearied Gaiety" | [15] |
| "Tranquillity Stirred by a Sudden Spasm" | [17] |
| "I Could Explain" | [18] |
| "I Feel in Me a Manifold Desire" | [19] |
| "Silence" | [20] |
| "I Should Like to Say to the World" | [21] |
| "You Pass as in a Drugged Delirium" | [22] |
| "O Faces that Look so Coldly at Me" | [23] |
| "I See Myself in Many Different Dresses" | [24] |
| "There are Songs Enough of Love, of Joy, of Grief" | [25] |
| "How Often, When the Thought of Suicide" | [27] |
| "It is Still Something to have Cheated God" | [28] |
| "What Words that Move on Wings in a Long Drift" | [29] |
| "I Think Myself" | [30] |
| "The Adored, Wild, Strange, Irresistible" | [31] |
| A Rose | [32] |
| "Like Flocks of Tired Birds When Autumn Comes" | [33] |
| "Oh, Just Beyond the Curve of Ideal Quest" | [34] |
| "Ah! You, from the Small High-Walled Acre of Your Lives" | [35] |
| "Mouth of the Dust I Kiss, Corruption Absolute" | [36] |
| "The Curtains are Drawn as though it still were Night" | [37] |
| Black Velvet | [38] |
| Nerves | [39] |
| "My Pain has All the Patience of a Nun" | [40] |
| "The Scandal-Monger After All is Right" | [41] |
| "Woods of Brown Gloom Sombring with the Hush of Death" | [42] |
| "I Feel So Much Alone" | [43] |
| The Complex Life | [44] |
| "Shall We Be Christened Poets, Children of God" | [46] |
| "When I Am Weary at the Antic Chance" | [47] |
| Moods | [48] |
| SMOKE | |
| "Now is the Evening Dipped Knee-Deep in Blood" | [53] |
| "Blow Upon Blow They Bruise the Daylight Wan" | [54] |
| "A Ragged Drummer Rides Along the Street" | [56] |
| Zeppelins | [58] |
| "O Flattery, Imposture, Battle Show" | [62] |
| "What Will Happen to the Beggar, and the Sinner, and the Sad" | [63] |
| "If I Were What I Would Be, and Could Break" | [64] |
| Holy Russia | [65] |
| "How Deeply Nurtured is Your Foolishness" | [67] |
| "Of All Who Died in Silence Far Away" | [68] |
| "And Afterwards, When Honour Has Made Good" | [69] |
| "Pity the Slain that Laid Away Their Lives" | [70] |
| FLAME | |
| "You Have Understood so Little of Me, and My Adoration" | [75] |
| "Lulled are the Dazzling Colours of the Day" | [77] |
| "Washed at My Feet by the Curded Foam of Sluggish Waves" | [78] |
| "My Poems Cannot Laugh. They are the Voice" | [79] |
| "On the Hill There is a Tavern, Long-Loved, Well-Remembered" | [80] |
| "Oh Canst Thou Not Hear in My Heart All Its Whispering Fears" | [81] |
| "As in the Silence the Clear Moonlight Drips" | [83] |
| "I Can but Give Thee Unsubstantial Things" | [84] |
| "I Have No Other Friend but Thee" | [85] |
| "Bodies Heaving Like Waves" | [88] |
| "Your Face to Me is Like a Beautiful City" | [89] |
| "Oh! Why Will You Not Let Me Love You" | [90] |
| "My Devotion Kneels to You" | [92] |
| Islands | [93] |
| "Many Things I'd Find to Charm You" | [94] |
| LAMPLIGHT AND STARLIGHT | |
| Lamp-posts | [97] |
| London | [98] |
| "Slowly the Pale Feet of Morning" | [100] |
| "What Have I to Do With Them" | [101] |
| "Among the Crumbling Arches of Decay" | [103] |
| "As a Nun's Face from Her Black Draperies" | [105] |
| "The Sun is Lord of Life and Colour" | [106] |
| Bahama Islands | [107] |
| Thoughts of London | [108] |
| Streets | [109] |
| "Laughter and Singing Come With the Morning" | [113] |
| "In the Night I Hear My Loneliness Calling" | [114] |
| Sunday | [115] |
| "The Leaves are Singing, and the Sea" | [116] |
| "How Soundly Sleepeth the Fool" | [117] |
| "Moonlit Lilacs Under the Window" | [118] |
| "Old Woman Forever Sitting" | [119] |
| "Loneliness I Love" | [120] |
| I Met an Indian | [121] |
| "From the Fathomless Depth of My Boredom" | [124] |
| "Lolling in Snow, Like Kings in Ermine Coats" | [125] |
| "The Roots of Our Longing are Probing the Heart of Night" | [126] |
| Vahdah | [127] |
| "Starlight Silences" | [128] |
| "The Mountain is an Emperor" | [130] |
| "I Know What Happiness Is" | [131] |
| "Long Hath the Pen Lain Idle in My Hand" | [133] |
| "I Lay My Heart on a Stone" | [134] |
| "The Cold Light Steals Into My Soul" | [135] |
| "The Caravans of Spring are in the Town" | [136] |
| "I Dread the Beauty of Approaching Spring" | [137] |
| To My Father | [139] |
| To My Mother | [140] |
| "London Grows Sad at Evening" | [142] |
| Ah! the Spring | [143] |
| The Undertone of the Volga Boat Song | [144] |