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Transcriber's Note:
MODERN BRITISH POETRY
EDITED BY
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
Author of "Challenge," "Including Horace," "Modern American Poetry," etc.
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY
The New Influences and Tendencies
the end of victorianism
the rise and decline of the æsthetic philosophy
william ernest henley
the celtic revival and j. m. synge
rudyard kipling
john masefield
"the georgians" and the younger men
MODERN BRITISH POETRY
Thomas Hardy
IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS"
GOING AND STAYING
THE MAN HE KILLED (From "The Dynasts")
Robert Bridges
WINTER NIGHTFALL
NIGHTINGALES
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
ODE
William Ernest Henley
INVICTUS
THE BLACKBIRD
A BOWL OF ROSES
BEFORE
MARGARITÆ SORORI
Robert Louis Stevenson
SUMMER SUN
WINTER-TIME
ROMANCE
REQUIEM
Alice Meynell
A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN
Fiona Macleod (William Sharp)
THE VALLEY OF SILENCE
THE VISION
Oscar Wilde
REQUIESCAT
IMPRESSION DU MATIN
John Davidson
A BALLAD OF HELL
IMAGINATION (From "New Year's Eve")
William Watson
ODE IN MAY[1]
ESTRANGEMENT[2]
SONG
FOOTNOTES:
Francis Thompson
DAISY
TO OLIVIA
AN ARAB LOVE-SONG
FOOTNOTES:
A. E. Housman
REVEILLÉ
WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY
WITH RUE MY HEART IS LADEN
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
"LOVELIEST OF TREES"
Douglas Hyde
I SHALL NOT DIE FOR THEE
Amy Levy
EPITAPH (On a commonplace person who died in bed)
IN THE MILE END ROAD
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
SHEEP AND LAMBS
ALL-SOULS
Owen Seaman
TO AN OLD FOGEY (Who Contends that Christmas is Played Out)
THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART
FOOTNOTES:
Henry Newbolt
DRAKE'S DRUM
Arthur Symons
IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA
MODERN BEAUTY
William Butler Yeats
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER
THE CAP AND BELLS
AN OLD SONG RESUNG
Rudyard Kipling
GUNGA DIN
THE RETURN[11]
THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS
AN ASTROLOGER'S SONG[12]
FOOTNOTES:
Richard Le Gallienne
A BALLAD OF LONDON
REGRET
Lionel Johnson
MYSTIC AND CAVALIER
TO A TRAVELLER
Ernest Dowson
TO ONE IN BEDLAM
YOU WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD ME
"A. E." (George William Russell)
THE GREAT BREATH
THE UNKNOWN GOD
Stephen Phillips
FRAGMENT FROM "HEROD"
BEAUTIFUL LIE THE DEAD
A DREAM
Laurence Binyon
A SONG
THE HOUSE THAT WAS
Alfred Douglas
THE GREEN RIVER
T. Sturge Moore
THE DYING SWAN
SILENCE SINGS
William H. Davies
DAYS TOO SHORT
THE MOON
THE VILLAIN
THE EXAMPLE
Hilaire Belloc
THE SOUTH COUNTRY
Anthony C. Deane
THE BALLAD OF THE BILLYCOCK
A RUSTIC SONG
J. M. Synge
BEG-INNISH
A TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH
TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE
FOOTNOTES:
Nora Hopper Chesson
A CONNAUGHT LAMENT
Eva Gore-Booth
THE WAVES OF BREFFNY
WALLS
Moira O'Neill
A BROKEN SONG
BEAUTY'S A FLOWER
John McCrae
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
Ford Madox Hueffer
CLAIR DE LUNE
I
II
"THERE SHALL BE MORE JOY ..."
Walter De la Mare
THE LISTENERS
AN EPITAPH
TIRED TIM
OLD SUSAN
NOD
G. K. Chesterton
LEPANTO[14]
A PRAYER IN DARKNESS
THE DONKEY
FOOTNOTES:
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
PRELUDE
THE STONE[15]
SIGHT[16]
FOOTNOTES:
John Masefield
A CONSECRATION
SEA-FEVER
ROUNDING THE HORN (From "Dauber")[17]
THE CHOICE
SONNET[18]
FOOTNOTES:
Lord Dunsany
SONGS FROM AN EVIL WOOD
I
II
III
Edward Thomas
IF I SHOULD EVER BY CHANCE
TALL NETTLES
FIFTY FAGGOTS
COCK-CROW
Seumas O'Sullivan
PRAISE
Ralph Hodgson
EVE
TIME, YOU OLD GIPSY MAN
THE BIRDCATCHER
THE MYSTERY
Harold Monro
THE NIGHTINGALE NEAR THE HOUSE
EVERY THING
STRANGE MEETINGS
T. M. Kettle
TO MY DAUGHTER BETTY, THE GIFT OF GOD
Alfred Noyes
SHERWOOD
THE BARREL-ORGAN
EPILOGUE (From "The Flower of Old Japan")
Padraic Colum
THE PLOUGHER
AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS
Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
I AM THE MOUNTAINY SINGER
THE OLD WOMAN
James Stephens
THE SHELL
WHAT TOMAS AN BUILE SAID IN A PUB
TO THE FOUR COURTS, PLEASE
John Drinkwater
RECIPROCITY
A TOWN WINDOW
James Joyce
I HEAR AN ARMY
J. C. Squire
A HOUSE
Lascelles Abercrombie
FROM "VASHTI"
SONG (From "Judith")
James Elroy Flecker
THE OLD SHIPS
D. H. Lawrence
PEOPLE
PIANO
John Freeman
STONE TREES
Shane Leslie
FLEET STREET
THE PATER OF THE CANNON
Frances Cornford
PREËXISTENCE
Anna Wickham
THE SINGER
REALITY
SONG
Siegfried Sassoon
TO VICTORY
DREAMERS
THE REAR-GUARD
THRUSHES
AFTERMATH
Rupert Brooke
THE GREAT LOVER[19]
DUST[20]
THE SOLDIER[21]
FOOTNOTES:
Winifred M. Letts
GRANDEUR
THE SPIRES OF OXFORD
Francis Brett Young
LOCHANILAUN
F. S. Flint
LONDON
Edith Sitwell
THE WEB OF EROS
INTERLUDE
F. W. Harvey
THE BUGLER
T. P. Cameron Wilson
SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE
W. J. Turner
ROMANCE
Patrick MacGill
BY-THE-WAY
DEATH AND THE FAIRIES
Francis Ledwidge
AN EVENING IN ENGLAND
EVENING CLOUDS
FOOTNOTES:
Irene Rutherford McLeod
"IS LOVE, THEN, SO SIMPLE"
LONE DOG
Richard Aldington
PRELUDE
IMAGES
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Edward Shanks
COMPLAINT
Osbert Sitwell
THE BLIND PEDLAR
PROGRESS
Robert Nichols
NEARER
Charles Hamilton Sorley
TWO SONNETS
I
II
TO GERMANY
Robert Graves
IT'S A QUEER TIME
A PINCH OF SALT
I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED?
THE LAST POST
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