TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR

THE POEMS, VOLUME I: POEMS

RHYMING POEMS

The Wild Common 5

Dog-Tired 6

From a College Window 7

Discord in Childhood 7

Cherry Robbers 8

Dream-Confused 8

Renascence 9

Virgin Youth 10

Study 11

Twilight 12

Love on the Farm 13

Gipsy 14

The Collier’s Wife 15

Flapper 16

Thief in the Night 17

Monologue of a Mother 17

The Little Town at Evening 18

ln a Boat 19

Last Hours 20

Flat Suburbs, S. W., in the Morning 20

The Best of School 21

Dreams Old and Nascent / Old 22

Suburbs on a Hazy Day 23

Weeknight Service 23

A Man Who Died 24

Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March 26

Letter from Town: The Almond Tree 27

Wedding Morn 28

Violets 29

Lightning 30

End of Another Home Holiday 31

Baby Running Barefoot 33

Sigh No More 33

Guards!

A Review in Hyde Park, 1910 / The Crowd Watches 34

Evolutions of Soldiers 35

Aware 35

A Pang of Reminiscence 35

A White Blossom 36

Corot 36

Michael Angelo 37

Hyde Park at Night, Before the War / Clerks 38

Piccadilly Circus at Night / Street-Walkers 38

After the Opera 39

Morning Work 39

Transformations

I. The Town 40

II. The Earth 40

III. Men 40

A Baby Asleep After Pain 41

Last Lesson of the Afternoon 41

School on the Outskirts 42

A Snowy Day in School 42

Whether or Not 43

A Winter’s Tale 51

Return 52

The Appeal 52

Lilies in the Fire 52

Red Moon-Rise 54

Scent of Irises 56

Forecast 57

Prophet 57

Discipline 58

The Punisher 59

Tease 60

Mystery 61

Repulsed 62

Coldness in Love 63

Suspense 64

Endless Anxiety 64

The End 65

The Bride 65

The Virgin Mother 66

At the Window 67

Reminder 67

Drunk 69

Sorrow 71

Dolor of Autumn 71

The Inheritance 72

Silence 73

Listening 74

Brooding Grief 74

Last Words to Miriam 75

Malade 76

Lotus and Frost 76

The Yew Tree on the Downs 77

Troth with the Dead 78

At a Loose End 78

Submergence 78

The Enkindled Spring 79

Excursion Train 79

Release 81

These Clever Women 81

Ballad of Another Ophelia 82

Kisses in the Train 83

Turned Down 84

After Many Days 85

Snap-Dragon 85

Come Spring, Come Sorrow 89

The Hands of the Betrothed 90

A Love Song 91

Two-Fold 92

Tarantella 92

Under the Oak 93

Brother and Sister 93

The Shadow of Death 94

Birdcage Walk 95

In Trouble and Shame 96

Call into Death 96

Grey Evening 96

Firelight and Nightfall 97

Blueness 97

A Passing-Bell 98

The Drained Cup 99

Late at Night 101

Next Morning 102

Winter in the Boulevard 103

Parliament Hill in the Evening 103

Embankment at Night, Before the War / Charity 104

Embankment at Night, Before the War / Outcasts 104

Sickness 107

In Church 108

Piano 108

The North Country 109

Love Storm 109

A Passing Visit to Helen 110

Twenty Years Ago 112

Reading a Letter 112

Seven Seals 113

Two Wives 114

Noise of Battle 118

At the Front 118

Reality of Peace, 1916 119

Narcissus 120

Tommies in the Train 120

On the March 122

Ruination 123

The Attack 123

Winter-Lull 124

Bombardment 125

Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector 125

Obsequial Ode 126

Going Back 127

Shades 128

Town in 1917 128

Bread upon the Waters 129

War-Baby 130

Nostalgia 130

Dreams Old and Nascent / Nascent 131

On That Day 134

Autumn Sunshine 134

ALL OF US

Farewell and Adieu 139

Star Sentinel 139

Mother’s Son in Salonika 139

Near the Mark 140

Man Hauling a Wagon 140

The Well of Kilossa 140

Straying Thoughts 141

Twofold 141

Fragile Jewels 141

Benediction 142

Supplication 142

The Grey Nurse 142

The Saint 143

The Wind, The Rascal 143

Rose, Look Out Upon Me 143

Unrelenting 144

Dust 144

A Powerful Ally 144

The Daughter of the Great Man 145

Drill on Salisbury Plain in Summer Time 145

An Elixir 145

The Jewess and the V. C. 145

Night-Fall in the Suburbs 146

Zeppelin Nights 146

Munitions Factory 147

Forlorn 147

Needless Worry 147

The Gazelle Calf 148

Foreign Sunset 148

Too Late 148

Antiphony 149

Swing Song 149

Prisoners at Work in the Rain 150

Neither Moth Nor Rust 150

UNRHYMING POEMS

LOOK! WE HAVE COME THROUGH!

Argument 155

Moonrise 155

Elegy 155

Nonentity 156

Martyr à la Mode 156

Don Juan 158

The Sea 158

Hymn to Priapus 159

Ballad of a Wilful Woman 161

Bei Hennef 164

First Morning 165

“And Oh—That the Man l am Might Cease to be—” 165

She Looks Back 166

On the Balcony 169

Frohnleichnam 169

ln the Dark 170

Mutilation 172

Humiliation 173

A Young Wife 174

Green 175

River Roses 175

Gloire de Dijon 176

Roses on the Breakfast Table 176

I am like a Rose 177

Rose of all the World 177

A Youth Mowing 178

Quite Forsaken 179

Forsaken and Forlorn 179

Firef1ies in the Corn 179

A Doe at Evening 180

Song of a Man Who is Not Loved 181

Sinners 181

Misery 182

Everlasting Flowers / For a Dead Mother 183

Sunday Afternoon in Italy 184

Winter Dawn 185

A Bad Beginning 186

Why Does She Weep? 187

Giorno dei Morti 188

All Souls 189

Lady Wife 190

Both Sides of the Medal 191

Loggerheads 192

December Night 193

New Year's Eve 193

New Year's Night 194

Valentine’s Night 194

Birth Night 195

Rabbit Snared in the Night 196

Paradise Re-Entered 197

Coming Awake 198

Spring Morning 199

Wedlock 200

History 203

Song of a Man Who is Loved 203

Song of a Man Who has Come Through 204

One Woman to all Women 205

People 206

Street Lamps 207

“She Said as Well to Me” 208

New Heaven and Earth 210

Elysium 214

Manifesto 215

Autumn Rain 221

Frost Flowers 222

Craving for Spring 223

BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS

FRUITS 229

Pomegranate 231

Peach 232

Fig 232

Medlars and Sorb-apples 235

Grapes 237

The Revolutionary 239

The Evening Land 241

Peace 244

TREES 247

Cypresses 249

Bare Fig-Trees 251

Bare Almond Trees 253

Tropic 254

Southern Night 254

FLOWERS 257

Almond Blossom 259

Purple Anemones 262

Sicilian Cyclamens 264

Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers 266

THE EVANGELISTIC BEASTS 273

St. Matthew 275

St. Mark 278

St. Luke 280

St. John 282

CREATURES 285

Mosquito 287

Fish 289

Bat 294

Man and Bat 295

REPTILES 301

Snake 303

Baby Tortoise 305

Tortoise Shell 307

Tortoise Family Connections 309

Lui et Elle 311

Tortoise Gallantry 314

Tortoise Shout 316

BIRDS 319

Turkey-Cock 321

Humming-Bird 323

Eagle in New Mexico 324

The Blue Jay 326

ANIMALS 329

The Ass 331

He-Goat 334

She-Goat 336

Elephant 338

Kangaroo 343

Bibbles 345

Mountain Lion 351

The Red Wolf 352

GHOSTS 357

Men in New Mexico 359

Autumn at Taos 360

Spirits Summoned West 361

The American Eagle 364

PANSIES

Our day is over 369

Hark in the dusk! 369

Elephants in the circus 369

Elephants plodding 370

On the drum 370

Two performing elephants 370

Twilight 371

Cups 371

Bowls 371

You 371

After dark 371

To let go or to hold on—? 372

Destiny 373

How beastly the bourgeois is— 373

Worm either way 375

Natural complexion 376

The oxford voice 376

True democracy 377

To be superior 377

Swan 378

Leda 378

Give us gods 379

Won’t it be strange—? 380

Spiral flame 381

Let the dead bury their dead— 382

When wilt thou teach the people—? 383

A living 384

When I went to the film— 385

When l went to the circus— 385

The noble englishman 387

Things men have made— 388

Things made by iron— 388

New houses, new clothes— 389

Whatever man makes— 389

We are transmitters— 389

All that we have is life— 390

Let us be men— 390

Work 390

Why—? 391

What is he? 392

O start a revolution— 392

Moon memory 393

There is rain in me— 393

Desire goes down into the sea— 394

The sea, the sea— 394

November by the sea— 394

Old song 395

Good husbands make unhappy wives— 395

Fight! O my young men— 395

Women want fighters for their lovers— 396

It's either you fight or you die— 397

Don’ts— 397

The risen lord 398

The secret waters— 400

Beware, O my dear young men— 401

Obscenity 402

Sex isn’t sin— 402

The elephant is slow to mate— 403

Sex and trust— 404

The gazelle calf— 404

Little fish— 404

The mosquito knows— 405

Self-pity 405

New Moon 405

Spray 405

Sea-weed 405

My enemy— 406

Touch 406

Noli me tangere— 406

Chastity 407

Let us talk, let us laugh— 407

Touch comes— 408

Leave sex alone— 409

The mess of love— 409

Climb down, O lordly mind— 410

Ego-bound 411

Jealousy 412

Ego-bound women— 412

Fidelity 412

Know deeply, know thyself more deeply— 414

All I ask— 415

The universe flows— 415

Underneath— 416

The primal passions— 416

Escape 418

The root of our evil— 418

The ignoble procession— 419

No joy in life— 419

Wild things in captivity— 420

Mournful young man— 420

There is no way out— 421

Money-madness— 421

Kill money— 422

Men are not bad— 422

Nottingham’s new university— 423

I am in a novel— 423

No! Mr Lawrence! 424

Red-herring 424

Our moral age— 425

My naughty book— 426

The little wowser— 427

The young and their moral guardians. 428

When I read Shakespeare— 428

Salt of the earth— 429

Fresh water 429

Peace and war— 429

Many mansions— 430

Glory 430

Woe 430

Attila 430

What would you fight for? 431

Choice 431

Riches 432

Poverty 432

Noble 432

Wealth 433

Tolerance 433

Compari 433

Sick 433

Dead people 434

Cerebral emotions 434

Wellsian futures 434

To women, as far as l’m concerned 435

Blank 435

Elderly discontented women 435

Old people 436

The grudge of the old— 436

Beautiful old age— 437

Courage 437

Desire is dead 438

When the ripe fruit falls— 438

Elemental 438

Fire 439

l wish I knew a woman— 439

Talk 439

The effort of love— 440

Can’t be borne— 440

Man reaches a point. 440

Grasshopper is a burden— 441

Basta! 441

Tragedy 441

After all the tragedies are over— 442

Nullus 442

Dies lrae 443

Dies Illa 444

Stop it— 444

The death of our era 444

The new word 445

Sun in me 446

Be still! 446

At last— 446

Nemesis 447

The optimist 447

The third thing 447

The sane universe 448

Fear of society is the root of all evil 448

God 448

Sane and insane. 448

A sane revolution 449

Always this paying— 449

Poor young things— 450

A played-out game— 450

Triumph 451

The combative spirit 451

Wages 452

Young fathers 453

A tale told by an idiot 453

Being alive 453

Self-protection 454

A man 455

Lizard 455

Relativity 455

Space 456

Sun-men 456

Sun-women 456

Democracy 457

Aristocracy of the sun 457

Conscience 458

The middle-classes 458

Immorality 458

Censors 459

Man’s image 459

Immoral man 459

Cowards 460

Think—! 460

Peacock 460

Paltry-looking people— 460

Tarts 461

Latter-Day sinners 461

What matters— 461

Fate and the younger generation 463

As for me, I’m a patriot 464

The rose of England 464

England in 1929 465

Liberty’s old story 465

New brooms 465

Police spies 465

Now it’s happened 466

Energetic women 467

Film passion 467

Female coercion 467

Volcanic Venus 468

What does she want?— 468

Wonderful spiritual women 469

Poor bit of a wench!— 469

What ails thee?— 469

It’s no good! 470

Don’t look at me!— 470

Ships in bottles 471

Know thyself, and that thou art mortal 472

What is man without an income?— 473

Canvassing for the election 474

Altercation 475

Finding your level 475

Climbing up 477

To Clarinda 478

Conundrums 479

A rise in the world— 479

Up he goes!— 480

The saddest day 481

Prestige 483

Have done with it— 484

Henriette 484

Vitality 486

Willy wet-leg 487

Maybe— 487

Stand up!— 487

Demon justice 488

Be a demon! 489

The jeune fille 491

Trust 492

NETTLES

A Rose is not a Cabbage. 497

The man in the street. 497

Britannia’s baby. 498

Change of government. 499

The British Workman and the Government. 500

Clydesider. 500

Flapper vote. 501

Songs I Learnt at School

I. Neptune’s little affair with Freedom. 501

II. My Native Land. 502

III. The British Boy. 503

13000 people. 504

Innocent England. 506

Give me a sponge. 507

Puss-Puss! 507

London Mercury. 508

My little critics. 508

Daddy-Do-Nothing. 508

Question. 508

Editorial office. 508

British Sincerity. 509

The Great Newspaper Editor to his subordinate. 510

Modem Prayer. 511

Cry of the masses. 511

What have they done to you—? 512

The People. 512

The factory cities. 513

Leaves of grass, flowers of grass. 513

Magnificent democracy. 513

THE ‘NETTLES’ NOTEBOOK

Image-Making love. 517

People. 517

Desire 518

To a certain friend 518

The Emotional Friend. 518

Correspondence in after years 519

The Egoists 519

Chimaera 519

Ultimate Reality 519

Sphinx 520

Intimates 520

True love at last. 520

Andraitx.—Pomegranate flowers. 521

I dare do all. 521

Battle of Life. 522

There are too many people. 522

The Heart of Man. 522

Moral Clothing 522

Behaviour 523

The Hostile Sun 524

The Church 524

The Protestant Churches. 525

Loneliness 525

The Uprooted. 525

Delight of being alone. 525

Refused friendship. 526

Future Relationships 526

Future Religion 526

Future States. 526

Future War 527

Signs of the Times 527

Initiation Degrees 527

Unhappy Souls 527

Full life 527

People who care 528

Non-existence 528

All-knowing 528

Salvation. 528

Old Archangels 528

Lucifer [1] 529

The Mills of God. 529

Multitudes. 529

Fallen Leaves. 529

The difference. 530

The breath of life [1] 530

Vengeance is mine— 530

Astronomical Changes 531

Fatality 531

Free Will. 531

In a Spanish tram-car. 532

Spanish privilege 532

At the bank in Spain. 532

The Spanish wife. 533

The painter’s wife. 533

Modern problems. 533

Dominant woman. 534

Men and Women 534

The Scientific doctor. 534

Healing. 534

En masse. 535

God and the Holy Ghost. 535

Humility 535

Proper Pride. 535

Humility-mongers. 536

Tender Reverence. 536

Absolute Reverence. 536

Belief. 536

Bells. 537

The triumph of the machine. [1] 537

The triumph of the machine. [2] 539

Forte dei Marmi 540

Sea-bathers. 540

Talk of loyalty 541

Talk of faith. 541

Amo sacrum vulgus 541

Boredom, ennui, depression 542

The deadly Victorians 542

What are the wild waves saying—? 543

Welcome Death. 543

Dark Satanic Mills 543

We die together. 544

What is a man to do? 545

13 Pictures 545

Auto da Fe. 546

Shows. 547

The Gulf 547

The Cross. 548

Fellow-men 550

The Sight of God 550

Souls to save 550

When most men die. 550

Hold Back! 551

lmpulse. 551

Men like Gods 552

Man and Machine 552

Masses and Classes 553

Give Us the Thebaïd. 553

Side-step, O sons of men! 554

On and on and on— 554

Oh wonderful machine! 554

But 1 say unto you: Love one another. 555

Love thy neighbour— 555

As thyself—! 556

Lonely, lonesome, loney-o! 556

Trees in the Garden 557

Storm in the Black Forest. 558

Revolutions as such! 558

Robot feelings 558

Robot-democracy. 559

Real democracy. 559

Worship. 559

Classes 560

Democracy is Service 560

False democracy and real. 560

Service. 561

What are the gods? 561

The gods! The gods! 561

Name the gods! 561

There are no gods— 562

Food of the North 563

Retort to Whitman 563

Retort to Jesus 563

The deepest sensuality 563

Sense of truth. 563

Satisfaction 564

Vibration of Justice 564

Lies 564

Poison. 564

Commandments 564

Emotional lies. 564

Laughter. 565

Drawing-room. 565

Cabbage-roses. 565

Cold blood. 565

Sunset 566

Listen to the band! 566

The human face. 566

Portraits 567

Furniture 567

Children singing in school. 567

Keep it up. 567

Race and battle. 568

Nothing to save. 568

Emasculation. 568

The English are so nice! 568

The Hills 569

Tourists 569

Seekers. 570

Search for love. 570

Search for truth. 570

Lies about love. 570

Travel is over. 571

Old Men. 571

Death. 571

Bourgeois and Bolshevist 572

Property and No-property 572

Cowardice and Impudence. 572

Lord Tennyson and Lord Melchett. 572

Choice of evils. 573

Hard-boiled Conservatives 573

Solomon’s baby 573

The Property Question 573

The way out. 573

St George and the Dragon. 574

The half-blind. 574

Minorities in danger. 574

If you are a man— 575

Terra incognita. 575

Climbing down. 576

Only the best matters 576

To Pino 576

Broadcasting to the G. B. P. 577

We can’t be too careful 578

Glimpses 579

All sorts of gods. 579

For a moment. 579

Goethe and Pose. 580

Men like Gods. 580

Thought 580

Be it so. 581

Conceit. 581

Man is more than homo sapiens. 581

Self-conscious people. 582

Two ways of living and dying. 582

So let me live 583

Gladness of Death. [1] 583

Gladness of Death. [2] 584

Humanity needs pruning 585

Self-Sacrifice. 585

Shedding of blood. 586

The old idea of sacrifice 586

Self-sacrifice 587

[Untitled] “I heard a little chicken chirp” 587

“Gross, coarse, hideous—” 587

[Untitled] “Dearly-beloved Mr Squire” 588

Let there be Light! 588

God is Born 589

Butterfly [1] 590

Butterfly [2] 590

The White Horse 591

The State of Grace. 591

Glory of darkness [1] 591

Glory of darkness [2] 592

Glory of darkness [3] 592

Flowers and Men. 593

Ship of Death 594

Song of Death [1] 597

Prayer 597

THE LAST POEMS NOTEBOOK

The Greeks Are Coming! 601

The Argonauts 601

Middle of the World. 602

For the heroes are dipped in Scarlet. 602

Demiurge. 603

The work of Creation 603

Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette 604

Bodiless God. 605

The Body of God 605

The Rainbow 605

Maximus 606

The Man of Tyre. 606

They say the sea is loveless. 606

Whales weep not! 606

Invocation to the Moon. 609

Butterfly [3] 610

Bavarian Gentians [1] 610

Bavarian Gentians [2] 611

Lucifer. [2] 612

The breath of life. [2] 612

Silence. 612

The Hands of God 613

Pax. 614

Abysmal Immortality 615

Only Man 615

Return of Returns 616

Stoic. 617

In the cities 617

Lord’s Prayer 618

Mana of the Sea 619

Salt 619

The Four 620

The Boundary Stone. 620

Spilling the Salt. 620

Walk Warily 621

Mystic 621

Anaxagoras 622

Kissing and horrid strife. 623

When Satan fell 624

Doors. 624

Evil is homeless. 625

What then is Evil? 626

The Evil World-Soul 626

The Wandering Cosmos. 627

Death is not Evil, Evil is Mechanical. 627

Strife 628

The late War 628

Murder. 628

Murderous Weapons 629

Departure 629

The Ship of Death. [1] 630

The Ship of Death. [2] 633

Difficult Death. 634

All Souls Day. 635

The Houseless Dead. 635

Beware the unhappy dead! 636

After All Saints Day. 637

Song of Death. [2] 637

The End, the Beginning 638

Sleep 638

Sleep and waking 638

Fatigue 639

Forget 639

Know-all. 639

Tabernacle 640

Temples. 640

Shadows. 640

Change 641

Phœnix. 641