"He has eyes of youth, he writes verses"
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The four early poems of Francis
Thompson are here published,
for the first time in book form, by the
permission of his Literary Executor.
We have also to thank the Editors
of The Station, The Tablet, The Outlook,
The New Age, The Westminster
Gazette, The Evening Standard, The
Irish Rosary and The Lamp, for permission
to re-publish other Verses.
CONTENTS
G.K. CHESTERTON
[Foreword]
FRANCIS THOMPSON
[Threatened Tears]
[Arab Love Song]
[Buona Notte]
[The Passion of Mary]
PADRAIC COLUM
["I shall not die for you"]
[An Idyll]
[Christ the Comrade]
[Arab Songs (I)]
[Arab Songs (II)]
SHANE LESLIE
[A Dead Friend (J.S. 1905)]
[Forest Song]
[The Bee]
[Outside the Carlton]
[The Pater of the Cannon]
[Fleet Street]
[Nightmare]
[To a Nobleman becoming Socialist]
[St. George-in-the-East]
VIOLA MEYNELL
[The Ruin]
[The Dream]
[The Wanderer]
["Nature is the living mantle of God"]
[Secret Prayer]
[The Unheeded]
[Dream of Death]
THE HON. MRS. LINDSAY
[Mater Salvatoris]
[To Choose]
[The Hunters]
HUGH AUSTIN
[The Astronomer's Prayer]
[The Moon]
[To Yvonne]
[The Burial of Scald]
THE HON. MRS. LYTTON
[A Day Remembered]
[Childhood]
[Love in Idleness]
[Love's Counterfeit]
OLIVIA MEYNELL
[A Grief without Christ]
[The Crowning]
MAURICE HEALY
[In Memoriam]
[A Ballad of Friendship]
[In the Midst of Them]
[Sic Transit]
MONICA SALEEBY
[Retrospect]
FRANCIS MEYNELL
[Any Stone]
[Lux in Tenebris]
[Mater Inviolata]
[Song-burden]
[Gifts]
[Wraith]
[A Dedication]