Poems, 1908-1919

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CONTENTS

RECIPROCITY

THE HOURS

A TOWN WINDOW

MYSTERY

THE COMMON LOT

PASSAGE

THE WOOD

HISTORY

THE FUGITIVE

CONSTANCY

SOUTHAMPTON BELLS I Long ago some builder thrust Heavenward in

THE NEW MIRACLE

REVERIE

PENANCES

LAST CONFESSIONAL

BIRTHRIGHT

ANTAGONISTS

HOLINESS

THE CITY

TO THE DEFILERS

A CHRISTMAS NIGHT

INVOCATION

IMMORTALITY I When other beauty governs other lips, And

THE CRAFTSMEN

SYMBOLS

SEALED

A PRAYER

THE BUILDING

THE SOLDIER

THE FIRES OF GOD I Time gathers to my name; Along the ways

CHALLENGE

TRAVEL TALK

THE VAGABOND

OLD WOMAN IN MAY

THE FECKENHAM MEN

THE TRAVELLER

IN LADY STREET

ANTHONY CRUNDLE

MAD TOM TATTERMAN

FOR CORIN TO-DAY

THE CARVER IN STONE

ELIZABETH ANN

THE COTSWOLD FARMERS

A MAN'S DAUGHTER

THE LIFE OF JOHN HERITAGE

THOMAS YARNTON OF TARLTON

MRS. WILLOW

ROUNDELS OF THE YEAR

LIEGEWOMAN

LOVERS TO LOVERS

LOVE'S PERSONALITY

PIERROT

RECKONING

DERELICT

WED

FORSAKEN

DEFIANCE

LOVE IN OCTOBER

TO THE LOVERS THAT COME AFTER US

DERBYSHIRE SONG

LOVE'S HOUSE I I know not how these men or those may take Their

COTSWOLD LOVE

WITH DAFFODILS

FOUNDATIONS

DEAR AND INCOMPARABLE

A SABBATH DAY IN FIVE WATCHES I. MORNING (TO M. C.) You were

A DEDICATION (TO E. G.) I Sometimes youth comes to age and asks

RUPERT BROOKE (DIED APRIL 23, 1915)

ON READING FRANCIS LEDWIDGE'S LAST SONGS

IN THE WOODS

LATE SUMMER

JANUARY DUSK

AT GRAFTON

DOMINION

THE MIRACLE

MILLERS DALE

WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED)

WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE

SUNRISE ON RYDAL WATER (TO E. DE S.)

SEPTEMBER

OLTON POOLS (TO G. C. G.)

OF GREATHAM (TO THOSE WHO LIVE THERE)

MAMBLE

OUT OF THE MOON

MOONLIT APPLES

COTTAGE SONG

THE MIDLANDS

OLD CROW

VENUS IN ARDEN

ON A LAKE

HARVEST MOON

AT AN EARTHWORKS

INSTRUCTION

HABITATION

WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH (William Barnes, 1801-1886)

BUDS

BLACKBIRD

MAY GARDEN

AT AN INN

PERSPECTIVE

CROCUSES TO E. H. C.

RIDDLES, R.F.C. [1] -1916

THE SHIPS OF GRIEF

NOCTURNE

THE PATRIOT

EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE

THE GUEST

TREASON

POLITICS

FOR A GUEST ROOM

DAY

DREAMS

RESPONSIBILITY

PROVOCATIONS

TRIAL

CHARGE TO THE PLAYERS THE TROJAN WOMEN, BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE, APRIL 1918

CHARACTER

REALITY

EPILOGUE

MOONRISE

DEER

TO ONE I LOVE

TO ALICE MEYNELL

PETITION

HARVESTING

POEMS
1908-1919

[Image not available: John Drinkwater portrait From a drawing by William Rothenstein 1917 Emery Walker ph. sc.]

P O E M S
1908-1919

By
JOHN DRINKWATER


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