Poems of To-Day: an Anthology

This book has been compiled in order that boys and girls, already perhaps familiar with the great classics of the English speech, may also know something of the newer poetry of...

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat-- O wave into the sunset flowing calm! O tired lark descending on the wheat! Lies it all peace...

But I will walk upon the wooded hill Where stands a grove, O pines, of sister pines, And when the downy twilight droops her wing And no sea glimmers and no mountain shines My he...

Here am I, sweating, sick, and hot, And there the shadowed waters fresh Lean up to embrace the naked flesh. _Temperamentvoll_ German Jews Drink beer around; and _there_ the dews...

And the triumph of him that begot, And the travail of her that bore, Behold they are evermore As warp and weft in our lot. We are children of splendour and flame, Of shuddering,...

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, b...

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose.

Be starry, buds of clustered white, Around the dark waves of her hair! The young fresh glory you prepare Is like my ever-fresh delight When she comes shining on my sight With me...

O, a gallant set were they (_M. E. Coleridge_) . . . . . . . . 8 O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees (_H. Trench_) . . . . . . . . 111 O happy soul, forget thy self (_T. Sturge Moo...