Streets, and Other Verses

Contents

“This great grey city that bred me and mine ...”

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I
Streets	17
Villas (Leytonstone)	19
Cherry Gardens (Rotherhithe)	20
Mare Street, N.E.	21
Kingsland Road, N.E.	22
Living-in (Brixton Rise)	23
Newport Street, E.	24
The Spanish Sailor (Charlton Vale)	25
Outside Charing Cross (2.35 p.m.)	26
Saloon Bar, Railway Arms (Waterloo Road)	27
Mrs. Skeffyngton Calhus	28
Little Houses (Hill Street, Knightsbridge)	30
Malise-Robes	31
The Young Married Couple (Muswell Hill)	32
First Floor Back	33
Maisonnettes (Harrow Road)	34
Walworth Road, S.E.	35
The Country Boy	37
The Letter	38
Lodgings (Bloomsbury)	40
“L’Ile de Java”	41
The Poplars	42
West End Lane	43
Hampstead	45
Oak Hill Way	48
Spaniards’	49
Richmond Park	50
Westminster Bridge (June Night)	51
Gladstone Terrace	52
Front Doors (Bayswater)	53
The Ballad of the Brave Lover (Thames Embankment)	55
The Quarry	56
In a Taxi	57
In Praise of London	58
II
Highbrow Hill	65
Post-Georgian Poet in Search of a Master	66
Merveilleuses Des Nos Jours (1914)	68
Daisymead	69
Benevolence	70
Mr. Reginald Hyphen (St. James’s Street)	71
She-Devil (Davies Street)	72
Ritz (July, 1914)	73
A Triumphal Ode	74
III
Moritura	79
The Voices	80
Cuckfield Park	81
“Now slants the moonlight...”	82
“Sang a Maid at Peep of Day”	83
A Home-Coming	84
The Kiss	85
On the Promenade (March Winds: Seaford)	86
June	87
To ——	88
The Case of Pierrot	89
Pompes FunÈbres	90
Ah! You Moon	91
A Little Poem on Sin	92
Heart and Soul	93
The Singer’s Journey	94
IV
Brighton Beach (Whit-Monday, 1909)	99
Beaugency-sur-Loire	100
In Picardy	101
Calle Memo O Loredan	102
Barcelona	103
Juillac-le-Coq (Charente)	104
Roads	105
Envoi (Ars Longa)	106

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