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The Poems of Alice Meynell
Complete Edition
Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)
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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
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
Later Poems
Last Poems
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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
