Alice Meynell
From a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A.
THE POEMS
OF
ALICE MEYNELL
COMPLETE EDITION
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS - TORONTO
Copyright. Canada, 1923
by McClelland and Stewart, Limited, Toronto
Printed in Canada
To
W.M.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This volume contains the whole of Mrs. Meynell's
poetry: the early volume of "Preludes"; the "Poems,"
issued in 1893, of which nine impressions were printed
before 1913, when it was incorporated in the
Collected Edition; "Later Poems," issued in 1901,
also incorporated in the edition of 1913;
"Poems: Collected Edition," issued in
1913, of which the eighth impression
was printed in 1919, and a ninth with
additions in 1921; "A Father of
Women, and other Poems," issued
in 1918, and included in the
Collected Edition in 1919;
and finally "Last Poems," issued in
February, 1923.
THE CONTENTS
In Early Spring
To the Beloved
An Unmarked Festival
In Autumn
Parted
"Soeur 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
The Love of Narcissus
To Any Poet
To One poem in a Silent Time
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