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The Poems of Alice Meynell

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Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)
  
[dedication]

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Early Poems
  
IN EARLY SPRING
  
TO THE BELOVED
  
AN UNMARKED FESTIVAL
  
IN AUTUMN
  
PARTED
  
“SŒUR MONIQUE”
  
REGRETS
  
THE VISITING SEA
  
AFTER A PARTING
  
BUILDERS OF RUINS
  
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
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A POET'S FANCIES
 I. 
ITHE LOVE OF NARCISSUS
 II. 
IITO ANY POET
 III. 
IIITO ONE POEM IN A SILENT TIME
 IV. 
IVTHE MOON TO THE SUN
 V. 
VTHE SPRING TO THE SUMMER
 VI. 
VITHE DAY TO THE NIGHT
 VII. 
VIIA POET OF ONE MOOD
 VIII. 
VIIIA SONG OF DERIVATIONS
 IX. 
IXSINGERS TO COME
 X. 
XUNLINKED
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Later Poems
  
THE SHEPHERDESS
  
THE TWO POETS
  
THE LADY POVERTY
  
NOVEMBER BLUE
  
A DEAD HARVEST
  
THE WATERSHED
  
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
  
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
  
A WIND OF CLEAR WEATHER IN ENGLAND
  
IN SLEEP
  
THE DIVINE PRIVILEGE
  
FREE WILL
  
THE TWO QUESTIONS
  
THE LORD'S PRAYER
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Last Poems
  
THE POET AND HIS BOOK
  
INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY
  
THE WIND IS BLIND
  
TIME'S REVERSALS
  
THE THRESHING MACHINE
  
WINTER TREES ON THE HORIZON
  
TO SLEEP
  
“THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS”
  
IN HONOUR OF AMERICA, 1917
  
“LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”
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 I. 
REFLEXIONS (I)
 II. 
REFLEXIONS (II)
 III. 
REFLEXIONS (III)
  
TO CONSCRIPTS
  
THE VOICE OF A BIRD
  
THE QUESTION
  
THE LAWS OF VERSE
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“THE RETURN TO NATURE”
 I. 
(I) PROMETHEUS
 II. 
(II) THETIS
  
TO SILENCE
  
THE ENGLISH METRES
  
“RIVERS UNKNOWN TO SONG”
  
TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST THE SON OF MAN
  
A COMPARISON IN A SEASIDE FIELD
  
SURMISE
  
TO ANTIQUITY
  
CHRISTMAS NIGHT
  
THE OCTOBER REDBREAST
  
TO “A CERTAIN RICH MAN”
  
“EVERLASTING FAREWELLS! AND AGAIN, AND YET AGAIN . . . EVERLASTING FAREWELLS!”
  
THE POET TO THE BIRDS
  
AT NIGHT

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“LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”

Richard Hooker
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(IN TIME OF WAR)

Man pays that debt with new munificence,
Not piecemeal now, not slowly, by the old:
Not grudgingly, by the effaced thin pence,
But greatly and in gold.
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