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Title: Eyes of Youth
A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O.

Author: Various

Release Date: February 9, 2006 [EBook #17735]

Language: English

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EYES OF YOUTH

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A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum--Shane

Leslie--Viola Meynell--Ruth Lindsay--

Hugh Austin--Judith Lytton--Olivia

Meynell--Maurice Healy--Monica

Saleeby--Francis Meynell--With

four early Poems by Francis

Thompson, & a Foreword by

Gilbert K. Chesterton.

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"He has eyes of youth,
he writes verses"

_The Merry Wives of Windsor_.

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The four early poems of Francis Thompson are here published, for
the first time in book form, by the permission of his Literary
Executor.

We have also to thank the Editors of _The Station, The Tablet,
The Outlook, The New Age, The Westminster Gazette, The Evening
Standard, The Irish Rosary_ and _The Lamp_, for permission to
re-publish other Verses.

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CONTENTS

G.K. CHESTERTON

Foreword

FRANCIS THOMPSON

Threatened Tears
Arab Love Song
Buona Notte
The Passion of Mary

PADRAIC COLUM

"I shall not die for you"
An Idyll
Christ the Comrade
Arab Songs (I)
Arab Songs (II)

SHANE LESLIE

A Dead Friend (J.S. 1905)
Forest Song
The Bee
Outside the Carlton
The Pater of the Cannon
Fleet Street
Nightmare
To a Nobleman becoming Socialist
St. George-in-the-East

VIOLA MEYNELL

The Ruin
The Dream
The Wanderer
"Nature is the living mantle of God"
Secret Prayer
The Unheeded
Dream of Death

THE HON. MRS. LINDSAY

Mater Salvatoris
To Choose
The Hunters

HUGH AUSTIN

The Astronomer's Prayer
The Moon
To Yvonne
The Burial of Scald

THE HON. MRS. LYTTON

A Day Remembered
Childhood
Love in Idleness
Love's Counterfeit

OLIVIA MEYNELL

A Grief without Christ