POEMS
1908-1919

P O E M S
1908-1919

By
JOHN DRINKWATER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY JOHN DRINKWATER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO
MY WIFE

CONTENTS

[Reciprocity][1]
[The Hours][2]
[A Town Window][4]
[Mystery][5]
[The Common Lot][7]
[Passage][8]
[The Wood][9]
[History][10]
[The Fugitive][12]
[Constancy][13]
[Southampton Bells][15]
[The New Miracle][17]
[Reverie][18]
[Penances][26]
[Last Confessional][27]
[Birthright][29]
[Antagonists][30]
[Holiness][31]
[The City][32]
[To the Defilers][33]
[A Christmas Night][34]
[Invocation][35]
[Immortality][36]
[The Craftsmen][38]
[Symbols][39]
[Sealed][40]
[A Prayer][43]
[The Building][45]
[The Soldier][48]
[The Fires of God][49]
[Challenge][60]
[Travel Talk][61]
[The Vagabond][66]
[Old Woman in May][67]
[The Feckenham Men][68]
[The Traveller][70]
[In Lady Street][71]
[Anthony Crundle][75]
[Mad Tom Tatterman][76]
[For Corin To-Day][78]
[The Carver in Stone][79]
[Elizabeth Ann][91]
[The Cotswold Farmers][92]
[A Man’s Daughter][93]
[The Life of John Heritage][95]
[Thomas Yarnton of Tarlton][98]
[Mrs. Willow][99]
[Roundels of the Year][101]
[Liegewoman][105]
[Lovers to Lovers][106]
[Love’s Personality][107]
[Pierrot][108]
[Reckoning][110]
[Derelict][112]
[Wed][113]
[Forsaken][115]
[Defiance][116]
[Love in October][117]
[To the Lovers that come after us][118]
[Derbyshire Song][119]
[Love’s House][120]
[Cotswold Love][124]
[With Daffodils][125]
[Foundations][126]
[Dear and Incomparable][127]
[A Sabbath Day][128]
[A Dedication][134]
[Rupert Brooke][136]
[On Reading Francis Ledwidge’s Last Songs][137]
[In the Woods][138]
[Late Summer][139]
[January Dusk][140]
[At Grafton][141]
[Dominion][142]
[The Miracle][144]
[Millers Dale][145]
[Written at Ludlow Castle][146]
[Wordsworth at Grasmere][147]
[Sunrise on Rydal Water][148]
[September][150]
[Olton Pools][151]
[Of Greatham][152]
[Mamble][154]
[Out of the Moon][155]
[Moonlit Apples][156]
[Cottage Song][157]
[The Midlands][158]
[Old Crow][160]
[Venus in Arden][162]
[On a Lake][163]
[Harvest Moon][164]
[At an Earthworks][165]
[Instruction][166]
[Habitation][167]
[Written in Winterborne Came Church][169]
[Buds][171]
[Blackbird][172]
[May Garden][173]
[At an Inn][174]
[Perspective][176]
[Crocuses][177]
[Riddles R.F.C.][179]
[The Ships of Grief][180]
[Nocturne][181]
[The Patriot][182]
[Epilogue for a Masque][184]
[The Guest][185]
[Treason][186]
[Politics][187]
[For a Guest Room][189]
[Day][190]
[Dreams][191]
[Responsibility][192]
[Provocations][193]
[Trial][194]
[Charge to the Players][195]
[Character][196]
[Reality][197]
[Epilogue][198]
[Moonrise][200]
[Deer][201]
[To one I love][202]
[To Alice Meynell][205]
[Petition][206]
[Harvesting][208]