The Last Poems of Alice Meynell
by Alice Meynell
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About this eBook
- Author
- Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922
- Title
- The last poems of Alice Meynell
- Original Publication
- London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1923.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- English poetry -- 20th century
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 79606
- Release Date
- September 18, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LAST POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL
- 2.THE CONTENTS
- 3.THE POET AND HIS BOOK
- 4.INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
- 5.THE WIND IS BLIND
- 6.TIME’S REVERSALS A DAUGHTER’S PARADOX
- 7.THE THRESHING MACHINE
- 8.WINTER TREES ON THE HORIZON
- 9.TO SLEEP
- 10.“THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS” (IN THE BACH-GOUNOD “AVE MARIA”)
- 11.IN HONOUR OF AMERICA (1917) IN ANTITHESIS TO ROSSETTI’S “ON THE REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS”
- 12.“LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”
- 13.REFLEXIONS (I) IN IRELAND, 1920
- 14.REFLEXIONS (II) IN “OTHELLO”
- 15.REFLEXIONS (III) IN TWO POETS
- 16.TO CONSCRIPTS “COMPEL THEM TO COME IN”
- 17.THE VOICE OF A BIRD “HE SHALL RISE UP AT THE VOICE OF A BIRD”
- 18.THE LAWS OF VERSE
- 19.THE QUESTION IL POETA MI DISSE, “CHE PENSI?”
- 20.“THE RETURN TO NATURE” — (I) PROMETHEUS — (II) THETIS
- 21.TO SILENCE “SPACE, THE BOUND OF A SOLID”: SILENCE, THEN, THE FORM OF A MELODY
- 22.THE ENGLISH METRES
- 23.“RIVERS UNKNOWN TO SONG”
- 24.TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST THE SON OF MAN
- 25.A COMPARISON IN A SEASIDE FIELD
- 26.SURMISE THE TRACK OF A HUMAN MOOD
- 27.TO ANTIQUITY “... REVERENCE FOR OUR FATHERS, WITH THEIR STORES OF EXPERIENCES”
- 28.CHRISTMAS NIGHT “IF I CANNOT SEE THEE PRESENT I WILL MOURN THEE ABSENT, FOR THIS ALSO IS A PROOF OF LOVE”
- 29.THE OCTOBER REDBREAST
- 30.TO “A CERTAIN RICH MAN” “I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN ... FATHER, I BESEECH THEE ... LEST THEY COME TO THIS PLACE”
- 31.“EVERLASTING FAREWELLS! AND AGAIN, AND YET AGAIN ... EVERLASTING FAREWELLS!”
- 32.THE POET TO THE BIRDS
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