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Title: A Father of Women
and other poems

Author: Alice Meynell

Release Date: December 13, 2009 [eBook #30669]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by David Price, email
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A FATHER OF WOMEN
AND OTHER POEMS

by
Alice Meynell

* * * * *

BURNS & OATES Ltd
28 Orchard Street
London W
1917

_To_
_V. L._

THE CONTENTS
A Father of Women Page 7
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle 9
Nurse Edith Cavell 11
Summer in England, 1914 12
To Tintoretto in Venice 14
A Thrush Before Dawn 16
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries 18
To O--, of her Dark Eyes 19
The Treasure 20
A Wind of Clear Weather in England 22
In Sleep 23
The Divine Privilege 24
Free Will 26
The Two Questions 27
The Lord's Prayer 29
Easter Night 30

A FATHER OF WOMEN

AD SOROREM E. B.

"_Thy father was transfused into thy blood_."

_Dryden_: _Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew_.

Our father works in us,
The daughters of his manhood. Not undone