Georgian Poetry
1911-12
edited by
Sir Edward Marsh
1913

Dedicated to Robert Bridges
by the writers
and the editor.

Of all materials for labour, dreams are the hardest; and the artificer in ideas is the chief of workers, who out of nothing will make a piece of work that may stop a child from crying or lead nations to higher things. For what is it to be a poet? It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God.
Dunsany

[Table of Contents]

  • Lascelles Abercrombie
[The Sale of Saint Thomas]
  • Gordon Bottomley
[The End of the World]
[Babel: The Gate of God]		(from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series)
(from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series)
  • Rupert Brooke
[The Old Vicarage, Grantchester ]
[Dust]
[The Fish]
[Town and Country]
[Dining-room Tea]
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton
[The Song of Elf](a fragment from the Ballad of the White Horse)
  • William H. Davies
[The Child and the Mariner]
[Days too Short]
[In May]
[The Heap of Rags]
[The Kingfisher ]		 (from 'Songs of Joy')
(from 'Songs of Joy')
(from 'Songs of Joy')
(from 'Songs of Joy')
(from 'Farewell to Poesy')
  • Walter de la Mare
[Arabia]
[The Sleeper]
[Winter Dusk]
[Miss Loo]
[The Listeners]		(from 'The Listeners')
(from 'The Listeners')
(from 'The Listeners')
(from 'The Listeners')
  • John Drinkwater
[ The Fires of God](from 'Poems of Love and Earth')
  • James Elroy Flecker
[Joseph and Mary]
[The Queen's Song]		(from 'Forty-Two Poems')
(from 'Forty-Two Poems')
  • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
[The Hare]
[Geraniums]
[Devil's Edge]		(from 'Fires,' Book III)
(from 'Fires,' Book III)
  • D. H. Lawrence
[The Snapdragon]
  • John Masefield
[Biography]
  • Harold Monro
[Child of Dawn]
[Lake Leman]		(from 'Before Dawn')
(from 'Before Dawn')
  • T. Sturge Moore
[A Sicilian Idyll] (first part)
  • Ronald Ross
[Hesperus](from 'Lyra Modulata')
  • Edmund Beale Sargant
[The Cuckoo Wood](from 'The Casket Songs')
  • James Stephens
[In the Poppy Field]
[In the Cool of the Evening]
[The Lonely God]		(from 'The Hill of Vision')
(from 'The Hill of Vision')
(from 'The Hill of Vision')
  • Robert Calverley Trevelyan
[Dirge]