Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
THE plays here collected were originally published separately at various dates during the past eighteen years, and are now brought together for the first time. The details of the previous issues, now for the most part out of print, are appended.
ASTRID. Best mind thy comb-pot and forget our king Before the Longcoat helps at thy awaking.... I like not this forsaken quiet house. The house-men out at harvest in the Isles N...
3. Part 3Mother and Queen, to you this holiest circlet Returns, by you renews its purpose and pride; Though it is sullied with a menial warmth, Your august coldness shall rehallow it, An...
4. Part 4HIALTI. To-morrow I must drive the sold ewes home And lead more bedding from the bracken-fell If the storm clears--it is well stacked and dry; So we must be a-stirring by lanter...
2. Part 2GONERIL. Unhappy mother, You have no daughter to take thought for you-- No servant's love to shame a daughter with, Though I am shamed--you must have other food, Straightway I b...
8. Part 8MAUDLIN. Nan ... Ursel ... Nan ... Lib ... Appletoft Lib, hast come? There's no one here--I wish they might forget And sleep, and let me feel a little lonely. I need much loneli...
1. Part 1THE plays here collected were originally published separately at various dates during the past eighteen years, and are now brought together for the first time. The details of th...
6. Part 6BIARTEY. He is a man. Why will his manhood urge him to be dead? We walk about the whole old land at night, We enter many dales and many halls: And everywhere is talk of Gunnar's...
7. Part 7GIZUR, _an old white-bearded man, to the other riders._ We have laid low to earth a mighty chief: We have laboured harder than on greater deeds, And maybe won remembrance by the...
9. Part 9BET, _overcoming her tears gradually._ We fled from here When ... when ... and reached the neat-yard ere we knew; We climbed the knoll and passed behind the barn; Then through t...
10. Part 10DANAË. Sophron, your bare grand neck's a tawny pillar To lean a cheek against in burning noons; Your careless eyes look deeplier than you know; You must be kept in life.... Down...
11. Part 11The various societies which desire to regenerate the theatre talk a good deal about the poetic drama of the future, but they do not seem to take much trouble to find it.... Of M...