Selected Poems

From Salt Water Ballads—
	PAGE
Trade Winds	1
Sea-fever	2
Prayer	3
The West Wind	4
From Poems and Ballads—
Cargoes	5
An Old Song Re-sung	6
Twilight	7
Invocation	8
A Creed	8
When Bony Death	10
The Death Rooms	10
C. L. M.	11
Waste	12
The Wild Duck	13
From Pompey the Great—
Chorus	14
Epilogue	15
From The Everlasting Mercy—
The Scallenge	16
Epilogue	18
From The Widow in the Bye Street—
The End	19
From Dauber—
The Setting of the Watch	22
The Watch Below	23
The Horn	26
The South-west Wind	29
We therefore commit our Brother	33
From Philip the King—
The Messenger’s Speech	63
Truth	76
The “Wanderer”	77
August, 1914	88
Biography	91
Ships	104
Sonnet on the Death of his Wife	108
They closed her Eyes	109
From Good Friday—
The Madman Speaks	113
From Lollingdon Downs—
Sonnets	117
From Gallipoli—
Epilogue	136
From Enslaved—
Prologue	152
The End	154
The Hounds of Hell	162
Animula	186
Forget	193
On Growing Old	194
From Esther—
Choruses	205
Act II	209

The books from which these selections are taken are published by the following firms, to whom the author makes the usual acknowledgments:—

Salt Water Ballads	Messrs. Elkin Mathews, Ltd.
Poems and Ballads	””
Pompey the Great	Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
The Everlasting Mercy	””
The Widow in the Bye Street	” ”
Dauber	Messrs. William Heinemann, Ltd.
The Daffodil Fields	” ”
Philip the King	” ”
Gallipoli	” ”
Good Friday	” ”
Lollingdon Downs	” ”
Reynard the Fox	” ”
Enslaved	” ”
Right Royal	” ”
Esther	” ”

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