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
By JOHN DRINKWATER colophon not visible BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY JOHN DRINKWATER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MY WIFE