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The Poems of Alice Meynell
Complete Edition
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
A POET'S FANCIES
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
