Grey Board Series, No. 18. 1s. net
"Mr. Pickering's metrical faculties are as deft and cunning as those of anyone now writing verse."—Athenæum.
A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn, E.C.
Contents
[The Call of the Mountains]
[The Old Manor House]
[The Science Master]
[Through the Centuries]
[Winter]
[Pain and Death]
[Switzerland]
[Burial at Sea]
[The Master of the Marionettes]
[Love's Counterfeit]
[The Most Precious Thing]
[Autumn]
[To L]
[Duty]
Sonnets
[Glastonbury]
[Galileo]
[Stratford-on-Avon]
[To a Daffodil]
[The Appian Way]
[From the Fields]
[Vénus de Milo]
[Fire]
The Call of the Mountains
Under the shade of the Kursaal veranda
Idly I follow the flight of the seagulls,
Gleaming like snow when their wings catch the sunshine,
While from the palm-house adjacent is wafted
Music half drowned in a babel of voices,
Fitting the mode of this temple of follies.