ORCHARD AND VINEYARD

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
POEMS OF WEST AND EAST
THE BODLEY HEAD

ORCHARD
AND VINEYARD

V. SACKVILLE-WEST
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., VIGO ST., W.
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXXI

TO——
Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh

CONTENTS

[HUMANITIES]:Page
[ MARIANA IN THE NORTH][9]
[ SORROW OF DEPARTURE][10]
[ SCORN][13]
[ DISSONANCE][14]
[ ON THE STATUE OF A VESTAL VIRGIN BY TOMA ROSANDIĆ][15]
[ TRIO][18]
[ ARIANE][19]
[ BEFORE AND AFTER][20]
[ IRRUPTION][21]
[ TO EVE][23]
[ MAD][24]
[ ESCAPE][25]
[ TO EVE IN TEARS][26]
[ BITTERNESS][27]
[ A FALLEN SOLDIER][29]
[ FALLEN YOUTH][30]
[ INSURRECTION][35]
[HOME:]
[ NIGHT][43]
[ A SAXON SONG][46]
[ A PAGE FROM A DIARY][47]
[ BEECHWOODS AT KNOLE][49]
[ LEOPARDS AT KNOLE][50]
[ APRIL][51]
[ ARCADY IN ENGLAND][52]
[ TESTAMENT][54]
[ SONNET][55]
[ FULL MOON][56]
[AD ASTRA][59]
[FROM “A MASQUE OF YOUTH”][65]
[SONGS OF FANCY:]
[ I. YOUR CARAVEL WAS LOOSELY MOORED][75]
[ II. SING OF ENCHANTED PALACES][77]
[ III. WAS IT BUT A RANDOM BIRD][78]
[ SWEET TIME][79]
[ A CYPRESS AVENUE][80]
[ MIRAGE][81]
[ CHINOISERIE][90]
[ COLOUR][92]
[SAILING]:
[ SAILING SHIPS][95]
[ PHANTOM][98]
[ GENOESE MERCHANTS][99]
[ EVENING][101]

Some of these poems have already appeared in The London Mercury, The Observer, Country Life, The Woman’s Leader, The Anglo-French Review; to the editors of these papers I am indebted for permission to republish.