OXFORD POETRY
1918
New York Agents:
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
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OXFORD POETRY
1918

EDITED BY
T. W. E., E. F. A. G., and D. L. S.
OXFORD
B. H. BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET
1918

CONTENTS

PAGE
ANON (Non-Coll.)
By Proxy[1]
BASIL BLACKWELL (Merton)
At the Pauper Asylum[2]
C. BURCHARDT (Magdalen)
Complaint[3]
M. St. CLARE BYRNE (Somerville)
“And One Fell by the Wayside...”[4]
J. E. A. CARVER (Magdalen)
Evening[5]
E. P. CHASE (Magdalen)
On a Birthday[6]
WILFRED CHILDE (Magdalen)
Sea Fairy[7]
Age Gothique Doré[8]
Rosa Innocens[9]
GERALD H. CROW (Hertford)
Trench Vision[10]
Madhouse Garden[11]
G. D. DESMOND (Somerville)
Home-coming[12]
Age[13]
E. C. DICKINSON (Non-Coll.)
A Tavern Lilt[14]
T. W. EARP (Exeter)
Our Lady of Light[16]
E. F. A. GEACH (Home Student)
Romance[18]
Retrospect[18]
E. F. A. GEACH (Home Student) AND D. E. A. WALLACE (Somerville)
Ballade of Ladies who Died for Love[19]
K. GIBBERD (St. Hilda’s Hall)
When I am Old[20]
RUSSELL GREEN (Queen’s)
Faith[21]
Hills[22]
REGINALD HARRIS (C.C.C.)
Song[23]
Fragment from the “Lament for Bion”[24]
MERCY HARVEY (St. Hilda’s Hall)
Song[25]
H. C. HARWOOD (Balliol)
Incompatibility[26]
Dedication of an Unwritten Masterpiece to a Woman as yet Unknown[27]
LUISA HEWITT (Home Student)
“You lit your Cigarette from Mine”[28]
Ave atque Vale[29]
R. M. HEWITT (Keble)
Iter Persicum[30]
Gaudium in Cœlo[31]
E. E. St. L. HILL (Keble)
Parting[32]
ALDOUS HUXLEY (Balliol)
Two Songs[33]
Song of Poplars[34]
C. R. JURY (Magdalen)
A Sonnet to a Friend[35]
An Epitaph[35]
MARGARET LEIGH (Somerville)
Two Epitaphs[36]
Sonnet: The Journalist[37]
E. H. W. MEYERSTEIN (Magdalen)
The Incantation[38]
ROBERT NICHOLS (Trinity)
Closing Lines from “Polyphemus his Passion”[41]
L. RICE-OXLEY (Keble)
The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury[45]
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (Somerville)
Pygmalion[46]
HELEN SIMPSON (Home Student)
The Head of the Table[49]
Aeroplane, June 6th[50]
L. A. G. STRONG (Wadham)
Rufus Prays[51]
In the Garden[52]
SHERARD VINES (New College)
Permission[53]
Summer[54]
D. E. A. WALLACE (Somerville)
River-Pools[55]
Life and I[56]

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BY PROXY