SORROW OF WAR

POEMS

BY

LOUIS GOLDING

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1919

FOR
MOTHER
AND THE
OTHER MOTHER

Certain of these poems have appeared in the "English Review," "To-Day," the "Englishwoman," the "Red Triangle," the "Nation," the "Cambridge Magazine," the "Sphere," the "Herald," the "Manchester Guardian," and the "Westminster Gazette."

To the editors of these journals I tender my acknowledgments.

CONTENTS

Lilac, Laburnum
Streets of Gold
"In the Gallery where the Fat Men go"
Dead in Gallipoli
A Journey South
The New Trade
The Woman who Shrieked against Peace
The Women at the Corners Stand
Joining-up
During the Battle
Jack
German Boy
Skylark and Dawn
Jack of April
Statesmen Debonair
Over in Flanders
Wild Weather
Broken Bodies
A Thought
The Vintner
For now comes Summer
The Advent of Mars
Prophet and Fool
Whatever Path I walk upon
London Magdalene
Secret Girl
Lanky Tim
Mrs. Briggs
Athens Now
Down Tottenham Court Road
In a Station
Liza
Women of the Night
I Standing in the Street
Slum Evening
Fires of Change
Poetry
The Prisoner
Nerves
A Poet
For My Friend
"I shall be splendidly and tensely Young"
"I"
I know not whence my Poems come
Lyrria
Faringdon from Salonica
Call of the Plover
The Gallant Road
The Quest
Having finished "Jude the Obscure"
Ghost and Body
Gallop
We Lads who Barter Rhymes
Who knows Me?
JudÆus Errans
Cold Stars
Reactionary
Late
Wind of Black Night
Yellow Satins
My Mother's Portrait
To A. L. O.
The Dark Knight of the Road
To the Swift
Green Wind
The Midmost Field in Kent
Murmuryngeham
Winchester Downs
Cycling in October
The Shepherd
Derwentwater
"I vowed that I would be a Tree"
Wounded Soldiers
Still Life in France
I Dream'd I Died
Flowers in War
Evening—Kent
Black Magic
A Soldier Dying
At Last War Ends