Early Poems
A POET'S FANCIES
Later Poems
Last Poems
Alice Meynell From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
Alice Meynell
From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
THE POEMS
OF
ALICE MEYNELL
COMPLETE EDITION
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS - TORONTO
Copyright. Canada, 1923
by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto
Printed in Canada
To
W.M.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This volume contains the whole of Mrs. Meynell's
poetry: the early volume of "Preludes"; the "Poems,"
issued in 1893, of which nine impressions were printed
before 1913, when it was incorporated in the
Collected Edition; "Later Poems," issued in 1901,
also incorporated in the edition of 1913;
"Poems: Collected Edition," issued in
1913, of which the eighth impression
was printed in 1919, and a ninth with
additions in 1921; "A Father of
Women, and other Poems," issued
in 1918, and included in the
Collected Edition in 1919;
and finally "Last Poems," issued in
February, 1923.
THE CONTENTS
EARLY POEMS
In Early Spring
To the Beloved
An Unmarked Festival
In Autumn
Parted
"Soeur Monique"
Regrets
The Visiting Sea
After a Parting
Builders of Ruins
SONNETS
Thoughts in Separation
The Garden
Your Own Fair Youth
The Young Neophyte
Spring on the Alban Hills
In February
A Shattered Lute
Renouncement
To a Daisy
San Lorenzo's Mother
The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
Cradle-Song at Twilight
Song of the Night at Daybreak
A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age
Advent Meditation
A POET'S FANCIES
The Love of Narcissus
To Any Poet
To One poem in a Silent Time
The Moon to the Sun
The Spring to the Summer
The Day to the Night
A Poet of one Mood
A Song of Derivations
Singers to Come
Unlinked
LATER POEMS
The Shepherdess
The Two Poets
The Lady Poverty
November Blue
A Dead Harvest
The Watershed (for R. T.)
The Joyous Wanderer
The Rainy Summer
The Roaring Frost
West Wind in Winter
The Fold
"Why wilt thou Chide?"
Veneration of Images
"I am the Way"
Via, et Veritas, et Vita
Parentage
The Modern Mother
Unto us a Son is Given
Veni Creator
Two Boyhoods
To Sylvia
Saint Catherine of Siena
Chimes
A Poet's Wife
Messina, 1908
The Unknown God
A General Communion
The Fugitive
In Portugal, 1912
The Crucifixion
The Newer Vainglory
In Manchester Square
Maternity
The First Snow
The Courts
The Launch
To the Body
The Unexpected Peril
Christ in the Universe
Beyond Knowledge
Easter Night
A Father of Women
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle
Nurse Edith Cavell
Summer in England, 1914
To Tintoretto in Venice
A Thrush before Dawn
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries
To O——, of Her Dark Eyes
The Treasure
A Wind of Clear Weather in England
In Sleep
The Divine Privilege
Free Will
The Two Questions
The Lord's Prayer
LAST POEMS
The Poet and His Book
Intimations of Mortality
The Wind is Blind
Time's Reversals
The Threshing Machine
Winter Trees on the Horizon
To Sleep
The Marriage of True Minds
In Honour of America, 1917
Lord, I owe Thee a Death
Reflections
To Conscripts
The Voice of a Bird
The Question
The Laws of Verse
"The Return to Nature"
To Silence
The English Metres
"Rivers Unknown to Song"
To the Mother of Christ the Son of Man
A Comparison
Surmise
To Antiquity
Christmas Night
The October Redbreast
To "a Certain Rich Man"
"Everlasting Farewells"
The Poet to the Birds
At Night (to W. M.)
