And So Farewell
Acknowledgments
For the use of copyright poems in this volume I have to thank—and most gratefully I do so—the following authors and publishers:—Mr. Martin Armstrong (and Mr. Martin Seeker); Mr. Lascelles Abercrombie (and Mr. John Lane); Mr. Edmund Blunden (and Mr. Cobden Sanderson); Mr. H. H. Bashford (Messrs. Harrap & Company and Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Company); Mrs. Bunston de Bary; Mr. Laurence Binyon (and Messrs. Elkin Matthews); Mr. Hilaire Belloc (and Messrs. Duckworth & Company); Mr. Robert Bridges (and Mr. John Murray); Mr. Gordon Bottomley; Mr. Padraic Colum (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts Ltd., and Messrs. the Macmillan Company); Mr. William H. Davies (Mr. Jonathan Cape and Mr. Alfred A. Knopf); the executors of the late Lord de Tabley; Mr. C. M. Doughty; Mr. Edward L. Davison (and Messrs. G. Bell & Sons); Mr. Charles Dalmon (and Messrs. Methuen & Company); Mr. John Drinkwater (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, and Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company); Mr. Vivian Locke Ellis; Mr. Robert Frost (and Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company); Mr. John Freeman; Miss Eleanor Farjeon (Messrs. Selwyn & Blount, Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company); Mrs. Furse (and Messrs. Constable & Company); Mr. Robert Graves; the Viscountess Grey; Mr. Edmund Gosse; Mr. Wilfrid Gibson (Messrs. Elkin Mathews, and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Crosbie Garstin (and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson); Mr. Thomas Hardy (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Ralph Hodgson (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Miss Gwen John; Mr. Rudyard Kipling (Messrs. Macmillan & Company, and Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company); Mr. Sidney Royse Lysaght (and Messrs. Macmillan & Company); Mr. Harold Monro; Mr. John Masefield; Mrs. Manning-Sanders (and Messrs. the Hogarth Tress); Mr. T. Sturge Moore (and Mr. Grant Richards); Miss Charlotte Mew (Mr. Harold Monro and Messrs. the Macmillan Company); Miss Viola Meynell; Sir Henry Newbolt; Mr. Alfred Noyes (and Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons); Mr. Seumas O’Sullivan (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts); Mr. Conal O’Riordan; Mr. F. J. Patmore; Miss Madeleine Caron Rock; Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese (and Mr. Thomas B. Mosher); Mr. James Stephens (Messrs. Maunsell & Roberts and Messrs, the Macmillan Company); Mr. Siegfried Sassoon; Miss Edith Sitwell (and Mr. B. H. Blackwell); Mr. Edward Shanks (and Messrs. Collins, Sons & Company); Mr. J. C. Squire (and Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton); Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson; Mr. Herbert Trench; Mr. Walter J. Turner (and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson); Miss Elinor Wylie (and Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company); Mr. Francis Brett Young (and Messrs. W. Collins, Sons & Company); Mr. W. B. Yeats (Messrs. T. Fisher Unwin and Messrs. the Macmillan Company).
It is, too, a happy privilege to have been permitted to include poems by Mrs. Webb, Mr. Eric Batterham, Mr. Gilbert Sheldon, Mr. Bernard Sleigh, Miss Elizabeth Ramal, and Mr. Colin Francis which have not hitherto appeared in any other published collection.
My most grateful thanks are due also to Mr. Edward Marsh (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson and Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company) for two poems by Rupert Brooke; to Mr. Clement Shorter for six poems by Emily Bronte, and a poem by Dora Sigerson Shorter; to Sir Henry Newbolt for seven poems by Mary Coleridge; to Mr. Cobden-Sanderson for three poems by John Clare; to Mr. John Murray and to the executors of Canon Dixon for two poems; to Mrs. Flecker (and Mr. Martin Seeker) for two poems by James Elroy Flecker; to Lady Gomme for rhymes from “Traditional Games”; to the Viscountess Grey for poems from “The White Wallet”; to Miss Antonie Meyer (and Messrs. Constable & Company) for six translations by Kuno Meyer; to Mrs. Meynell herself and to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell (and Messrs. Burns & Oates) for three poems; to Mr. William Meredith and to Messrs. Constable & Company for two poems by George Meredith; to Mrs. Sharp for one poem by “Fiona Macleod” (William Sharp); to Miss Morris, Mr. S. C. Cockerill (and Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company) for two poems by William Morris; to Mrs. Owen for a poem by Wilfred Owen; to Mrs. C. Patmore (and Messrs. G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.) for two poems by Coventry Patmore; to Messrs. Macmillan & Company for eight poems by Christina Rossetti; to Mr. Lloyd Osbourne (Messrs. Chatto & Windus and Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons) for four poems by Robert Louis Stevenson; to Mr. William Heinemann for a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; to Miss E. Margaret Courtney Boyd for a poem by William Bell Scott; to Mrs. Thomas (and Messrs. Selwyn & Blount) for seven poems by Edward Thomas; to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell (and Messrs. Burns & Oates) for three poems by Francis Thompson; to Messrs. P. J. and A. E. Dobell for quotations from the writings of Thomas Traherne.
For permission to use prose extracts, etc., which for the most part have already been referred to on pages 497-668. I am gratefully indebted to Dr. Blackman for his translation on Page 593; to Mr. Basil Blackwell for first grateful sight of Bunyan’s “Book for Boys and Girls”; to Mrs. Child Sargent, Mr. George Lyman Kittredge and Messrs. George G. Harrap & Company for selections from “English and Scottish Popular Ballads”; to Mr. G. G. Coulton; to Dr. Courtenay Dunn and to Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Company; to Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons for a quotation from “A Hind in Richmond Park” by W. H. Hudson; to Mr. Tickner Edwardes (and Messrs. Methuen & Company); to Lady Gomme; to Messrs. Longman for a quotation from “The Diary of Master William Silence”; to Miss Emma Phipson (and Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company); to Mr. H. M. Tomlinson; to Professor J. Arthur Thompson (and Messrs. George Newnes); to Mrs. Wright; to Mr. W. B. Yeats; and to Mr. Filson Young. Also to the Clarendon Press, and to the Hakluyt Society.
And I would ask forgiveness of any one whose rights I may have inadvertently overlooked.
For generous help, counsel and kindness, in the preparation of this book it is a happiness to express my gratitude to many friends—to Miss Naomi Royde Smith, Mr. Martin Freeman, Mr. J. W. Haines, Mr. Gilbert Sheldon, Mr. Frank Morley, Mr. Forrest Reid, and to Mr. James MacLehose; and, last, to my niece, Miss Lucy Rowley, to whom it owes more than words can say.
Footnotes
1 Hedgehogs
2 Starling
3 Know but little
4 Give
5 Birds
6 Such
7 Sorrow
8 Run quickly, hasten away
9 Float
10 Whips, mills, or beats
11 Refresh; make sweet
12 Truly, in sooth
13 Mateless and matchless
14 Chose
15 Keep
16 Young
17 Call
18 Heedlessness
19 Natural
20 Nimbly
21 Stick out
22 Squiggle
23 Toy or trap
24 More
25 Make grimaces
26 Falsehood
27 Learning
28 Yea, sirs
29 Air, tune, stave
30 Willow rind
31 Pears
32 Feast or fast
33 Gown or coat-tail
34 Where
35 Going
36 Who’s
37 From
38 Dale or hollow
39 Knoll or hillock
40 Goods and chattels
41 If
42 Clothes
43 Sweet-smelling
44 Cat-mint
45 Gillyflower
46 Empty
47 Weeping
48 Every
49 Stole
50 Had been
51 Wrestle
52 If
53 Must not
54 Dare not
55 Dug. delved
56 Her death-throes
57 Bran
58 Hairs
59 Yeast
60 Duck’s
61 Bracken
62 To
63 Such two
64 Scarce
65 Makes
66 If
67 Safely
68 Lustily
69 Cave!
70 Pretty dear
71 Green-walled ditch
72 Thatch: mend
73 Briar: wild-wood
74 Distaff
75 When the woods are fresh and fair
76 It
77 Small birds’
78 Polished
79 Which soon
80 O’er meadow, moor and stream
81 Herbs, wild flowers
82 Stir
83 A bank between ploughlands
84 More
85 Preens
86 Stay
87 Might
88 This
89 Risk, hazard, dare.
90 Dainty; luxurious.
91 Dirge, lament
92 Vast hill-hollow
93 Danger or defeat
94 When the half-muffled City Bells rang in commemoration of the Bell-Ringers who fell in the war, the bells of St. Clement Danes could not take part owing to a defect in the framework.
95 For a moment
96 Game
97 Cowering
98 Glen
99 Wee bit lassikin
100 No linnets
101 Freezing
102 Worse
103 Burn
104 Him
105 Together
106 Loved
107 Are here
108 Custom
109 Chilblain
110 Forester
111 Them
112 Hast thou
113 Cries
114 Skim
115 Apples
116 Once
117 Locks
118 Skin
119 Set
120 Grow
121 Elf
122 Made one
123 May
124 Where’s
125 Dove
126 Trappings
127 Make
128 Hold
129 Bought
130 The green margin of a river
131 Wild and lively
132 Furious
133 Carousers
134 Brawling
135 Cobbler
136 Spellbound
137 Chose
138 Witching
139 Dust: reek
140 Road
141 Nearest
142 Dove
143 Asked
144 Ere
145 Bold
146 Than
147 Worse
148 Why, sure
149 Peat for school fire
150 Who owns
151 Vessel, ship
152 Bands
153 Ere
154 Slowly, softly
155 Cows
156 Husband
157 Weep
158 Much
159 Praises
160 Good reason why
161 More
162 Pool
163 Leaping
164 Crooked, awry
165 Spell
166 Charmed and cozened
167 Laughed
168 Foul
169 Right loth
170 Wet
171 But long ere
172 If
173 Hand-bag
174 Birch-wood
175 The young wife
176 Skirts of bright green
177 Must not
178 This
179 High
180 Hair-comb
181 Save
182 The one
183 Raiders
184 Gold and silver
185 Alone
186 To the gate is gone
187 Halls
188 If
189 One
190 The twain
191 Makes her weep
192 Such lament
193 Shall not lose
194 Seized his all
195 More
196 Everything
197 Within
198 And dashed her backwards into the waves
199 And I’ll make
200 You shall have
201 It parted me and my world’s mate
202 Great
203 If you will stand
204 Every
205 Likewise
206 Visions
207 Canopy over dais
208 Mate
209 Bed
210 Told
211 First and foremost
212 Cap-nets of silk or of gold
213 Bird