Towards Democracy

About this eBook

Author

Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929

Title

Towards democracy

Original Publication

London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1918.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Adam Buchbinder, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Democracy -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

79477

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79477

Release Date

August 30, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Towards Democracy
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.Part I TOWARDS DEMOCRACY — TOWARDS DEMOCRACY — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — XIII — XIV — XV — XVI — XVII — XVIII — XIX — XX — XXI — XXII — XXIII — XXIV — XXV — XXVI — XXVII — XXVIII — XXIX — XXX — XXXI — XXXII — XXXIII — XXXIV — XXXV — XXXVI — XXXVII — XXXVIII — XXXIX — XL — XLI — XLII — XLIII — XLIV — XLV — XLVI — XLVII — XLVIII — XLIX — L — LI — LII — LIII — LIV — LV — LVI — LVII — LVIII — LIX — LX — LXI — LXII — LXIII — LXIV — LXV — LXVI — LXVII — LXVIII — LXIX — LXX
4. 4.Part II CHILDREN OF FREEDOM — York Minster — Sunday Morning after Church — High in My Chamber — 2 — 3 — Deep Below Deep — Except the Lord Build the House — I Come Forth from the Darkness — Sunday Morning near a Manufacturing Town — In the Drawing Rooms — In a Manufacturing Town — What Have I to do with Thee — As to You O Moon — Squinancy-Wort — Not of myself—I have no power of myself — — Lo! I Open a Door — By this Heart — As one who from a high cliff — To One in Trouble — These Waves or Your Great Heart — Thus as I Yearned for Love — Eternal Hunger — Child of the Lonely Heart — To One who is where the Eternal are — 2 — 3 — Through the long Night — To a Stranger — To a Friend — Of the Love that you poured forth — As a Woman of a Man — O Love—to whom the Poets — Who you are I know not — Have Faith — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7 — I Heard a Voice — I Know that you are Self-Conscious — Who are You — Among the Ferns — I Heard the Voice of the Woods — The Wind Chants Well To-day — I am a Voice — O Sea, with White Lines of Foam — Home — Off Gaspé — By the Shore — A Military Band — Wings — On an Atlantic Steamship — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — By Lake Wachusett — O Mighty Mother — AFTER LONG AGES — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — XIII — XIV — XV — XVI — XVII — XVIII — XIX — XX — XXI — XXII — XXIII — XXIV — XXV — XXVI — XXVII — XXVIII
5. 5.Part III AFTER CIVILISATION — After Civilisation — The word Democracy — The Meaning of it All — These Populations — Andromeda — The Triumph of Civilisation — The Dead Christ — Christmas Eve — Little heart within thy cage so many years—year after year— — When I am near to You — Cradled in Flame — All Night Long — Of the Past — Love’s Vision — Nearer than Ever Now — O Thou Whose Form — The Elder Soldier in the Brotherhood to the Younger — Into the Regions of the Sun — As it Happened — Parted Lips — Summer Heat — A Rivederci — Who will Learn Freedom? — After all Suffering — When a Thousand Years have Passed — A Message Committed to the Waves — Rest at Last — The Wind of May — O Earth, scene of what toil and anguish! — A Voice over the Earth — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — In the Chamber of Birth — A Cottage among the Hills — Alice — Baby Song — Early Morning — The Golden Wedding — The Mother to Her Daughter — A Sprig of Aristocracy — A Scene in London — S. James’ Park — The Twin Statues of Amenophis III at Thebes — ‘ Artemidorus, Farewell ’ — From Turin To Paris — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — To the End of Time — On the Eve of Departure — Arenzano — O Tender Heart — The Carter — The Stone-cutter — The Voice of One Blind — A Song of One in Old Age — In Extreme Age — After the Day’s Work — I Saw a Vision — Ah! Blessed is He — The Great Leader — I Accept You — Sol — A Glimpse — The Long Day in the Open — The Idler — In the Deep Cave of the Heart — Fly messenger! through the streets of the cities ancle-plumed Mercury fly! — The Coming of the Lord — 2 — 3 — 4 — The Curse of Property — Over the Great City — Underneath and After All — A Hard Saying — Not for a Few Months or Years — Disentanglement — 2 — 3 — The Mortal Lover — The End of Love — A New Life — The Law of Equality — To Thine Own Self be True — Abandon Hope All Ye that Enter Here — To One Dead — Of all the Suffering — A Long Journey — The Secret of Time and Satan — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — Brief is Pain — The Body and the Book
6. 6.Part IV WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART — Who shall Command the Heart — From Caverns Dark — The Lake of Beauty — The Wandering Psyche — I hear thy call, Mysterious Being — So thin a Veil — The open Secret — The Songs of the Birds, who Hears — A Child at a Window — Night — April — Lucifer — The Ocean of Sex — As the Greeks Dreamed — In a Scotch-Fir Wood — The Dream goes by — Surely the Time will come — The One Foundation — A Mightier than Mammon — O little sister Heart, without thy big brother the rude Brain what wouldst thou do? — Forms Eternal as the Mountains — Spending the Night Alone — O Joy Divine of Friends — O Child of Uranus — One at a Time — The Dead Comrade — Philoläus to Diocles — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — Hafiz to the Cup-bearer — In the Stone-floored Workshop — The Trysting — The Lover far on the Hills — The Babe — I Saw a Fair House — A Dream of Human Life — The Coast of Liguria — Easter Day on Mt. Mounier — At Mentone — Monte Carlo — India, the Wisdom-land — Tanzbödeli — A Village Church — Sheffield — A Lancashire Mill-hand — A Trade — The Ploughboy — The Jackdaw — By the Mersey — In the British Museum Library — Empire — The British, a.d. 1901 — Portland — China, a.d. 1900 — Standing beyond Time, — Who but the Lover should Know — The Everlasting Now — Now is the Accepted Time — A Summer Day — The Central Calm — Widening Circles — When I Look upon Your Faces — Life Behind Life — The Stupid old Body — The Wandering Lunatic Mind — As a Mould for some Fair Form — Nothing Less than All — Believe Yourself a Whole — The Body Within the Body — In an Old Quarry — The Soul to the Body — To Become a Creator — After Fifty Years — Out of the House of Childhood — Little Brook without a Name — Lo! what a World I Create
7. 7.A Note on “Towards Democracy”

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