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Title: Later Poems
Author: Alice Meynell
Release Date: July 9, 2007 [eBook #22032]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER POEMS***
Transcribed from the 1902 John Lane, The Bodley Head edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
Later Poems
By Alice Meynell
Author of "Poems"
London and New York
John Lane, The Bodley Head
1902
_Copyright_, 1901
BY JOHN LANE
_All rights reserved_
UNIVERSITY PRESS--JOHN WILSON
AND SON--CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
- T.
Contents:
The Shepherdess
"I am the Way"
Via, et Veritas, et Vita
Why wilt Thou Chide?
The Lady Poverty
The Fold
Cradle-song at Twilight
The Roaring Frost
Parentage
The Modern Mother
West Wind in Winter
November Blue
Chimes
Unto us a Son is given
A Dead Harvest
The Two Poets
A Poet's Wife
Veneration of Images
At Night
THE SHEPHERDESS
She walks--the lady of my delight--
A shepherdess of sheep.
Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;
She guards them from the steep.
She feeds them on the fragrant height,
And folds them in for sleep.
She roams maternal hil