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The Poems of Alice Meynell
Complete Edition
Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)
[dedication]
[section]
Early Poems
Later Poems
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”
[subsection]
I.
REFLEXIONS (I)
II.
REFLEXIONS (II)
III.
REFLEXIONS (III)
TO CONSCRIPTS
THE VOICE OF A BIRD
THE QUESTION
THE LAWS OF VERSE
“THE RETURN TO NATURE”
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
[_]
(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.
The Poems of Alice Meynell
