Poems from Punch, 1909-1920

About this eBook

Contributor

Henderson, W. Brooks Drayton (Walter Brooks Drayton), 1887-1939

Original Publication

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

Credits

Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

English poetry -- 20th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77833

Release Date

February 1, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POEMS FROM PUNCH
2. 2. — The School for Motley
3. 3.The Elder Song — To the God of Love — The New Resistance — A Whine from a Wooer — The Glad Good-bye — Wintry Fires — The Fount of Inspiration — Time's Revenges
4. 4.Chorus of the Months — To an Early Daffodil — The Despair of My Muse — A Child of the Sun — Herbs of Grace — Spring Cleaning — Lines to a Mudlark — Pagan Fancies — Ballade of August — Farewell to Summer — A Failure of Sympathy — To Santa Claus — In Winter
5. 5.Sport — Huntin' Weather — A February Trout-Fancy — At Putney — "Gambol" — "The Little Foxes" — To a Cuckoo, Heard on the Links — The First Game — Inland Golf — To an Unknown Deer — Medalitis — My First Flight — On Mixed Shooting — Southward — The Last Cock-Pheasant — Labuntur Anni
6. 6.School — "Commem." — A Ramshackle Room — Cambridge in Kharki — Oxford Revisited — Breaking-Up Song
7. 7.Metropolis — The Ideal Home — Ghosts of Paper — The Desert Optimist — To a Bank of England Pigeon — Left Smiling — The Sitting Bard — Nursery Rhymes of London Town — The Booklover — The Lanes leading down to the Thames — To a Dear Departed
8. 8." Dulce Domum " — By the Roman Road — Little Cow Hay — On Simon's Stack — For Dartymoor — The Golden Valley — Devon Men — Southampton — Cottage Garden Prayer — The Devil in Devon — Dulce Domum — The Seats of the Mighty
9. 9." Nimphidia " — Blue Roses — A House in a Wood — A Song of Syrinx — Honey Meadow — A Dream — A Vagrant — "Treasure Island" — Bazar — A Fairy went A-Marketing — Fairies in the Malverns — Fairy Music — Sometimes — The Wild Swan — The Strange Servant — To an Egyptian Boy
10. 10.In Memoriam — In Memoriam — In Memoriam — In Memoriam
11. 11.The War — Wireless — Guns of Verdun — The Woods of France — Summer and Sorrow — Defaulters — A Canadian to His Parents — " Quat' Sous Lait " — In Flanders Fields — Dulce et Decorum — The Nurse — Jimmy—Killed in Action — The Inn o' the Sword — The Lighted Way — Hymn for High Places — To Smith in Mesopotamy — By the Canal in Flanders — A Watch in the Night — The Windmill — The Return — Good-Bye, Australians — The Belfries — Saturdays
12. 12.Sea-Scape — The North Sea Ground — The Ballad of the Resurrection Packet — The Figure-Head — The Little Ships — The Lone Hand — A Dream Ship — The Voyage of H.M.S. President — The Old Ships — The Three Ships — Spanish Ledges — A Cornish Lullaby

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