The Poems of Alice Meynell

								


Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Alice Meynell From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.]

  THE POEMS


OF


ALICE MEYNELL

  COMPLETE EDITION

  MCCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS - TORONTO

  Copyright. Canada, 1923
by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto

  Printed in Canada

  To
W.M.

  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


This volume contains the whole of Mrs. Meynell's
poetry: the early volume of "Preludes"; the "Poems,"
issued in 1893, of which nine impressions were printed
before 1913, when it was incorporated in the
Collected Edition; "Later Poems," issued in 1901,
also incorporated in the edition of 1913;
"Poems: Collected Edition," issued in
1913, of which the eighth impression
was printed in 1919, and a ninth with
additions in 1921; "A Father of
Women, and other Poems," issued
in 1918, and included in the
Collected Edition in 1919;
and finally "Last Poems," issued in
February, 1923.

  THE CONTENTS


EARLY POEMS


In Early Spring
To the Beloved
An Unmarked Festival
In Autumn
Parted
"Soeur Monique"
Regrets
The Visiting Sea
After a Parting
Builders of Ruins

  SONNETS



    Thoughts in Separation

    The Garden

    Your Own Fair Youth

    The Young Neophyte

    Spring on the Alban Hills

    In February

    A Shattered Lute

    Renouncement

    To a Daisy

  San Lorenzo's Mother
The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
Cradle-Song at Twilight
Song of the Night at Daybreak
A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age
Advent Meditation

  A POET'S FANCIES



    The Love of Narcissus

    To Any Poet

    To One poem in a Silent Time

    The Moon to the Sun

    The Spring to the Summer

    The Day to the Night

    A Poet of one Mood

    A Song of Derivations

    Singers to Come

    Unlinked

  LATER POEMS


The Shepherdess
The Two Poets
The Lady Poverty
November Blue
A Dead Harvest
The Watershed (for R. T.)
The Joyous Wanderer
The Rainy Summer
The Roaring Frost
West Wind in Winter
The Fold
"Why wilt thou Chide?"
Veneration of Images
"I am the Way"
Via, et Veritas, et Vita
Parentage
The Modern Mother
Unto us a Son is Given
Veni Creator
Two Boyhoods
To Sylvia
Saint Catherine of Siena
Chimes
A Poet's Wife
Messina, 1908
The Unknown God
A General Communion
The Fugitive
In Portugal, 1912
The Crucifixion
The Newer Vainglory
In Manchester Square
Maternity
The First Snow
The Courts
The Launch
To the Body
The Unexpected Peril
Christ in the Universe
Beyond Knowledge
Easter Night
A Father of Women
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle
Nurse Edith Cavell
Summer in England, 1914
To Tintoretto in Venice
A Thrush before Dawn
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries
To O----, of Her Dark Eyes
The Treasure