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The Poems of Alice Meynell

by Alice Meynell

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  1. 1Dedication — In Early Spring
  2. 2To the Beloved
  3. 3An Unmarked Festival
  4. 4In Autumn
  5. 5Parted
  6. 6“Soeur Monique”
  7. 7Regrets
  8. 8The Visiting Sea
  9. 9After a Parting
  10. 10Builders of Ruins
  11. 11Thoughts in Separation
  12. 12The Garden
  13. 13Your Own Fair Youth
  14. 14The Young Neophyte
  15. 15Spring on the Alban Hills
  16. 16In February
  17. 17A Shattered Lute
  18. 18Renouncement
  19. 19To a Daisy
  20. 20San Lorenzo’s Mother
  21. 21The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
  22. 22Cradle-Song at Twilight
  23. 23Song of the Night at Daybreak
  24. 24A Letter From a Girl to Her Own Old Age
  25. 25Advent Meditation
  26. 26A Poet’s Fancies
  27. 27II — To Any Poet
  28. 28III — To One poem in a Silent Time
  29. 29IV — The Moon to the Sun
  30. 30V — The Spring to the Summer
  31. 31VI — The Day to the Night
  32. 32VII — A Poet of one Mood
  33. 33VIII — A Song of Derivations
  34. 34IX — Singers to Come
  35. 35X — Unlinked
  36. 36Later Poems
  37. 37The Two Poets
  38. 38The Lady Poverty
  39. 39November Blue
  40. 40A Dead Harvest
  41. 41The Watershed
  42. 42The Joyous Wanderer
  43. 43The Rainy Summer
  44. 44The Roaring Frost
  45. 45West Wind in Winter
  46. 46The Fold
  47. 47“Why Wilt Thou Chide?”
  48. 48Veneration of Images
  49. 49“I Am the Way”
  50. 50Via, et Veritas, et Vita
  51. 51Parentage
  52. 52The Modern Mother
  53. 53Unto Us a Son Is Given
  54. 54Veni Creator
  55. 55Two Boyhoods
  56. 56To Sylvia
  57. 57Saint Catherine of Siena
  58. 58Chimes
  59. 59A Poet’s Wife
  60. 60Messina, 1908
  61. 61The Unknown God
  62. 62A General Communion
  63. 63The Fugitive
  64. 64In Portugal, 1912
  65. 65The Crucifixion
  66. 66The Newer Vainglory
  67. 67In Manchester Square
  68. 68Maternity
  69. 69The First Snow
  70. 70The Courts
  71. 71The Launch
  72. 72To the Body
  73. 73The Unexpected Peril
  74. 74Christ in the Universe
  75. 75Beyond Knowledge
  76. 76Easter Night
  77. 77A Father of Women
  78. 78Length of Days
  79. 79Nurse Edith Cavell
  80. 80Summer in England, 1914
  81. 81To Tintoretto in Venice
  82. 82A Thrush Before Dawn
  83. 83The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries
  84. 84To o — , of Her Dark Eyes
  85. 85The Treasure
  86. 86A Wind of Clear Weather in England
  87. 87In Sleep
  88. 88The Divine Privilege
  89. 89Free Will
  90. 90The Two Questions
  91. 91The Lord’s Prayer
  92. 92Last Poems
  93. 93Intimations of Mortality
  94. 94The Wind Is Blind
  95. 95Time’s Reversals
  96. 96The Threshing Machine
  97. 97Winter Trees on the Horizon
  98. 98To Sleep
  99. 99“The Marriage of True Minds”
  100. 100In Honour of America, 1917
  101. 101“Lord, I Owe Thee a Death” — Richard Hooker
  102. 102Reflections
  103. 103To Conscripts
  104. 104The Voice of a Bird
  105. 105The Question
  106. 106The Laws of Verse
  107. 107“The Return to Nature”
  108. 108To Silence
  109. 109The English Metres
  110. 110“Rivers Unknown to Song” — James Thomson
  111. 111To the Mother of Christ — The Son of Man
  112. 112A Comparison in a Seaside Field
  113. 113Surmise
  114. 114To Antiquity
  115. 115Christmas Night
  116. 116The October Redbreast
  117. 117To “A Certain Rich Man”
  118. 118Everlasting Farewells
  119. 119The Poet to the Birds
  120. 120At Night

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