are some poems
directly inspired by the present war, but nothing, it is hoped, which
may not, in happier days, bear translation into any European tongue.
Then there come poems of the Earth, of England again and the longing of
the exile for home, of this and that familiar countryside, of woodland
and meadow and garden, of the process of the seasons, of the "open
road" and the "wind on the heath," of the city, its deprivations and
its consolations. Finally there are poems of Life itself, of the moods
in which it may be faced, of religion, of man's excellent virtues, of
friendship and childhood, of passion, grief, and comfort. But there is
no arbitrary isolation of one theme from another; they mingle and
inter-penetrate throughout, to the music of Pan's flute, and of Love's
viol, and the bugle-call of Endeavour, and the passing-bell of Death.

May, 1915.

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INDEX OF AUTHORS

PAGE
A. E. (GEORGE RUSSELL)
Shadows and Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES
Margaret's Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

BEECHING, H. C.
Fatherhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

BELLOC, HILAIRE
Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
From "Dedicatory Ode" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The South Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

BINYON, LAURENCE
Bab-lock-hythe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
For the Fallen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
In misty blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
O summer sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Little Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Road Menders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

BLUNT, W. S.
A Day in Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chanclebury Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
St. Valentine's Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

BRIDGES, ROBERT
Awake, my heart, to be loved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Elegy on a Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
I love all beauteous things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
I never shall love the snow again . . . . . . . . . . . 148
I wil