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| Introductory | xi |
| Thomas Hardy (1840-) |
| In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" | 3 |
| Going and Staying | 4 |
| The Man He Killed | 4 |
| Robert Bridges (1844-) |
| Winter Nightfall | 5 |
| Nightingales | 7 |
| Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881) |
| Ode | 8 |
| William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) |
| Invictus | 10 |
| The Blackbird | 10 |
| A Bowl of Roses | 11 |
| Before | 11 |
| MargaritÆ Sorori | 12 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Summer Sun | 13 |
| Winter-Time | 14 |
| Romance | 15 |
| Requiem | 16 |
| Alice Meynell (1850-) |
| A Thrush Before Dawn | 16 |
| Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855-1905) |
| The Valley of Silence | 18 |
| The Vision | 19 |
| Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) |
| Requiescat | 20 |
| Impression du Matin | 21 |
| John Davidson (1857-1909) |
| A Ballad of Hell | 22 |
| Imagination | 26 |
| William Watson (1858-) |
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| Ode in May | 28 |
| Estrangement | 30 |
| Song | 31 |
| Francis Thompson (1859-1907) |
| Daisy | 32 |
| To Olivia | 34 |
| An Arab Love-Song | 35 |
| A. E. Housman (1859-) |
| ReveillÉ | 36 |
| When I Was One-and-Twenty | 37 |
| With Rue My Heart is Laden | 38 |
| To An Athlete Dying Young | 38 |
| "Loveliest of Trees" | 39 |
| Douglas Hyde (1860-) |
| I Shall Not Die for Thee | 40 |
| Amy Levy (1861-1889) |
| Epitaph | 42 |
| In the Mile End Road | 42 |
| Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-) |
| Sheep and Lambs | 43 |
| All-Souls | 44 |
| Owen Seaman (1861-) |
| To An Old Fogey | 45 |
| Thomas of the Light Heart | 47 |
| Henry Newbolt (1862-) |
| Drake's Drum | 49 |
| Arthur Symons (1865-) |
| In the Wood of Finvara | 50 |
| Modern Beauty | 51 |
| William Butler Yeats (1865-) |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | 53 |
| The Song of the Old Mother | 53 |
| The Cap and Bells | 54 |
| An Old Song Resung | 55 |
| Rudyard Kipling (1865-) |
| Gunga Din | 57 |
| The Return | 61 |
| The Conundrum of the Workshops | 63 |
| An Astrologer's Song | 66 |
| Richard Le Gallienne (1866-) |
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| A Ballad of London | 69 |
| Regret | 70 |
| Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) |
| Mystic and Cavalier | 71 |
| To a Traveller | 73 |
| Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) |
| To One in Bedlam | 74 |
| You Would Have Understood Me | 75 |
| "A. E." (George William Russell) (1867-) |
| The Great Breath | 76 |
| The Unknown God | 77 |
| Stephen Phillips (1868-1915) |
| Fragment from "Herod" | 78 |
| Beautiful Lie the Dead | 78 |
| A Dream | 79 |
| Laurence Binyon (1869-) |
| A Song | 79 |
| The House That Was | 80 |
| Alfred Douglas (1870-) |
| The Green River | 81 |
| T. Sturge Moore (1870-) |
| The Dying Swan | 82 |
| Silence Sings | 82 |
| William H. Davies (1870-) |
| Days Too Short | 84 |
| The Moon | 85 |
| The Villain | 85 |
| The Example | 86 |
| Hilaire Belloc (1870-) |
| The South Country | 87 |
| Anthony C. Deane (1870-) |
| The Ballad of the Billycock | 90 |
| A Rustic Song | 92 |
| J. M. Synge (1871-1909) |
| Beg-Innish | 95 |
| A Translation from Petrarch | 96 |
| To the Oaks of Glencree | 96 |
| Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906) |
| A Connaught Lament | 97 |
| Eva Gore-Booth (1872-) |
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| The Waves of Breffny | 98 |
| Walls | 99 |
| Moira O'Neill |
| A Broken Song | 99 |
| Beauty's a Flower | 100 |
| John McCrae (1872-1918) |
| In Flanders Fields | 101 |
| Ford Madox Hueffer (1873-) |
| Clair de Lune | 102 |
| There Shall Be More Joy | 104 |
| Walter De la Mare (1873-) |
| The Listeners | 106 |
| An Epitaph | 107 |
| Tired Tim | 108 |
| Old Susan | 108 |
| Nod | 109 |
| G. K. Chesterton (1874-) |
| Lepanto | 111 |
| A Prayer in Darkness | 118 |
| The Donkey | 119 |
| Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-) |
| Prelude | 120 |
| The Stone | 121 |
| Sight | 124 |
| John Masefield (1878-) |
| A Consecration | 126 |
| Sea-Fever | 127 |
| Rounding the Horn | 128 |
| The Choice | 131 |
| Sonnet | 132 |
| Lord Dunsany (1878-) |
| Songs from an Evil Wood | 133 |
| Edward Thomas (1878-1917) |
| If I Should Ever By Chance | 136 |
| Tall Nettles | 137 |
| Fifty Faggots | 137 |
| Cock-Crow | 138 |
| Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-) |
| Praise | 139 |
| Ralph Hodgson |
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| Eve | 140 |
| Time, You Old Gipsy Man | 142 |
| The Birdcatcher | 144 |
| The Mystery | 144 |
| Harold Monro (1879-) |
| The Nightingale Near the House | 145 |
| Every Thing | 146 |
| Strange Meetings | 149 |
| T. M. Kettle (1880-1916) |
| To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God | 150 |
| Alfred Noyes (1880-) |
| Sherwood | 151 |
| The Barrel-Organ | 154 |
| Epilogue | 161 |
| Padraic Colum (1881-) |
| The Plougher | 162 |
| An Old Woman of the Roads | 164 |
| Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) (1881-) |
| I Am the Mountainy Singer | 165 |
| The Old Woman | 166 |
| James Stephens (1882-) |
| The Shell | 167 |
| What Tomas An Buile Said In a Pub | 168 |
| To the Four Courts, Please | 169 |
| John Drinkwater (1882-) |
| Reciprocity | 170 |
| A Town Window | 170 |
| James Joyce (1882-) |
| I Hear an Army | 171 |
| J. C. Squire (1884-) |
| A House | 172 |
| Lascelles Abercrombie (1884-) |
| From "Vashti" | 175 |
| Song | 176 |
| James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) |
| The Old Ships | 178 |
| D. H. Lawrence (1885-) |
| People | 180 |
| Piano | 180 |
| John Freeman (1885-) |
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| Stone Trees | 181 |
| Shane Leslie (1886-) |
| Fleet Street | 183 |
| The Pater of the Cannon | 183 |
| Frances Cornford (1886-) |
| PreËxistence | 184 |
| Anna Wickham |
| The Singer | 186 |
| Reality | 186 |
| Song | 187 |
| Siegfried Sassoon (1886-) |
| To Victory | 189 |
| Dreamers | 190 |
| The Rear-Guard | 190 |
| Thrushes | 191 |
| Aftermath | 192 |
| Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) |
| The Great Lover | 195 |
| Dust | 198 |
| The Soldier | 200 |
| W. M. Letts (1887-) |
| Grandeur | 201 |
| The Spires of Oxford | 203 |
| Francis Brett Young |
| Lochanilaun | 204 |
| F. S. Flint |
| London | 205 |
| Edith Sitwell |
| The Web of Eros | 206 |
| Interlude | 207 |
| F. W. Harvey (1888-) |
| The Bugler | 208 |
| T. P. Cameron Wilson (1889-1918) |
| Sportsmen in Paradise | 209 |
| W. J. Turner (1889-) |
| Romance | 210 |
| Patrick MacGill (1890) |
| By-the-Way | 211 |
| Death and the Fairies | 212 |
| Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917) |
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| An Evening in England | 213 |
| Evening Clouds | 214 |
| Irene Rutherford McLeod (1891-) |
| "Is Love, then, so Simple" | 215 |
| Lone Dog | 215 |
| Richard Aldington (1892-) |
| Prelude | 216 |
| Images | 217 |
| At the British Museum | 218 |
| Edward Shanks (1892-) |
| Complaint | 219 |
| Osbert Sitwell (1892-) |
| The Blind Pedlar | 220 |
| Progress | 221 |
| Robert Nichols (1893-) |
| Nearer | 222 |
| Charles H. Sorley (1895-1915) |
| Two Sonnets | 223 |
| To Germany | 225 |
| Robert Graves (1895-) |
| It's a Queer Time | 226 |
| A Pinch of Salt | 227 |
| I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? | 228 |
| The Last Post | 229 |
| Index of Authors and Poems | 231 |
