Poems New and Old
by John Freeman
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Excerpt from Poems New and Old:With the exception of two or three poems which have appeared in newspapers, or in an anthology entitled Twelve Poets, the verses in the first part of this volume have not hitherto been printed. The second part contains Memories of Childhood and Other Poems, and the third part retrieves many verses from Presage of Victory (1916), Stone Trees (1916), Fifty Poems (1911) and Twenty Poems (1909). Chronological order has not been carefully observed, or avoided, in the arrangement of the third part, but the earlier pieces will easily be distinguished by those who may wi...
Chapters (182)
- POEMS NEW AND OLD
- PRESS NOTICES
- POEMS NEW AND OLD
- London: Selwyn and Blount, Ltd. 21, York Buildings, Adelphi, W.C. 2 1920
- NOTE.
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- THE EVENING SKY
- BEECHWOOD
- THY HILL LEAVE NOT
- THE CAVES
- I WILL ASK
- IN THOSE OLD DAYS
- THE ASH
- IMAGINATION
- NO MORE ADIEU
- THE VISIT
- TRAVELLING
- THE SONG OF THE FOREST
- OUT OF THE EAST
- PART II
- THE WAKERS
- MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD
- THE SHOCK
- THE UNLOOSENING
- WILD HEART
- THE BODY
- THE TOSSING MOUNTAINS
- THE POND
- TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE [A]
- FROM WEAR TO THAMES
- TIME FROM HIS GRAVE
- WILDER MUSIC
- GRASSES
- FAIR AND BRIEF
- NIGHTFALL
- THE SLAVES
- THE FUGITIVE
- THE UNTHRIFT
- THE WREN
- THE WINDS
- THE WANDERER
- MERRILL'S GARDEN
- THE LIME TREE
- DARK CHESTNUT
- LONELY AIRS
- THE CREEPER
- SMOKE
- QUEENS
- THE RED HOUSE
- THE BEAM
- LAST HOURS
- THE WISH
- NOWHERE, EVERYWHERE
- TAKE CARE, TAKE CARE
- NEARNESS
- THE SECOND FLOOD
- THE GLASS
- BUT MOST THY LIGHT
- IN THAT DARK SILENT HOUR
- ONCE THERE WAS TIME
- SCATTER THE SILVER ASH LIKE SNOW
- JUSTIFICATION
- I HAVE NEVER LOVED YOU YET
- THE PIGEONS
- AND THESE FOR YOU
- JUDGMENT DAY
- LIGHTING THE FIRE
- RECOVERY
- EYES
- FULFILMENT
- BRING YOUR BEAUTY
- MEMORIAL
- THE HUMAN MUSIC
- THE CANDLE
- OLD FIRES
- THE CROWNS
- THE BRIGHT RIDER
- TO THE HEAVENLY POWER
- SNOWS
- THE THORN
- CHANGE
- BEYOND THE BARN
- LET HONOUR SPEAK
- TALK
- THE UNDYING
- THE NATIVE COUNTRY
- PART III
- STONE TREES
- IT WAS THE LOVELY MOON
- THE HOUNDS
- HECTOR
- LISTENING
- STONES
- THE ENEMIES
- THE SILVERY ONE
- THE FLUTE
- STARS
- TEN O'CLOCK AND FOUR O'CLOCK
- THE YEW
- NOVEMBER SKIES
- DELIGHT
- CHANGE
- SLEEPING SEA
- THE WEAVER OF MAGIC
- THE DARKSOME NIGHTINGALE
- UNDER THE LINDEN BRANCHES
- STRIFE
- FOREBODING
- DISCOVERY
- MORE THAN SWEET
- THE BRIGHTNESS
- THE HOLY MOUNTAINS
- RAPTURE
- MUSIC COMES
- THE IDIOT
- THE MOUSE
- HAPPINESS
- COMFORTABLE LIGHT
- HALLO!
- FEAR
- WAKING
- THE FALL
- STAY
- SHADOWS
- WALKING AT EVE
- THE PHYSICIAN
- VISION AND ECHO
- REVISITATION
- UNPARDONED
- SOME HURT THING
- THE WAITS
- IN THE LANE
- THE LAST TIME
- YOU THAT WERE
- "THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON SEA OR LAND"
- AT EVENING'S HUSH
- HAPPY DEATH
- WISDOM AND A MOTHER
- THE THRUSH SINGS
- TO MY MOTHER
- THE UNUTTERED
- FAIR EVE
- THE SNARE
- O HIDE ME IN THY LOVE
- PRAYER TO MY LORD
- THE TREE
- EARTH TO EARTH
- ON A PIECE OF SILVER
- THE ESCAPE
- WONDER
- LAMBOURN TOWN
- THE LAMP
- WHO IS IT THAT ANSWERS?
- WAITING
- ABSENCE
- SLEEP
- YOUR SHADOW
- THE FULL TIDE
- HANDS
- THE NIGHT WATCH
- THE HAUNTED SHADOW
- ALONE AND COLD
- INEVITABLE CHANGE
- LONELINESS
- I HEARD A VOICE UPON THE WINDOW BEAT
- FIRST LOVE
- THE CALL
- THE SHADE
- HAPPY IS ENGLAND NOW
- THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES
- SWEET ENGLAND
- PRESAGE OF VICTORY
- THE RETURN
- ENGLISH HILLS
- HOMECOMING
- ENGLAND'S ENEMY
- FROM PICCADILLY IN AUGUST
- EVENING BEAUTY: BLACKFRIARS
- SAILING OF THE GLORY
- AT THE DOCK
- "THE MEN WHO LOVED THE CAUSE THAT NEVER DIES"
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