GEORGIAN POETRY
1911-1912

Of all materials for labour, dreams are the hardest; and
the artificer in ideas is the chief of workers, who out of
nothing will make a piece of work that may stop a child
from crying or lead nations to higher things. For what is it
to be a poet? It is to see at a glance the glory of the world,
To see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel
ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as
bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know
single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to
be thought a fool, to hear at moments, the clear voice of God.
Dunsany

Contents Preface Lascelles Abercrombie The Sale of Saint Thomas Gordon Bottomley The End of the World (from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series) Babel: The Gate of God (from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series) Rupert Brooke The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Dust The Fish Town and Country Dining-room Tea Gilbert K. Chesterton The Song of Elf (a fragment from the Ballad of the White Horse) William H. Davies The Child and the Mariner (from 'Songs of Joy') Days too Short (from 'Songs of Joy') In May (from 'Songs of Joy') The Heap of Rags (from 'Songs of Joy') The Kingfisher (from 'Farewell to Poesy') Walter de la Mare Arabia (from 'The Listeners') The Sleeper (from 'The Listeners') Winter Dusk (from 'The Listeners') Miss Loo (from 'The Listeners') The Listeners John Drinkwater The Fires of God (from 'Poems of Love and Earth') James Elroy Flecker Joseph and Mary (from 'Forty-Two Poems') The Queen's Song (from 'Forty-Two Poems') Wilfrid Wilson Gibson The Hare (from 'Fires,' Book III) Geraniums Devil's Edge (from 'Fires,' Book III) D.H. Lawrence The Snapdragon John Masefield Biography Harold Monro Child of Dawn (from 'Before Dawn') Lake Leman (from 'Before Dawn') T. Sturge Moore A Sicilian Idyll (first part) Ronald Ross Hesperus (from 'Lyra Modulata') Edmund Beale Sargant The Cuckoo Wood (from 'The Casket Songs') James Stephens In the Poppy Field (from 'The Hill of Vision') In the Cool of the Evening (from 'The Hill of Vision') The Loneley God (from 'The Hill of Vision') Robert Calverley Trevelyan Dirge