>>> YOU ARE VIEWING A 200 LINE SAMPLE OF EBOOK# E05716 <<< TITLE: GEORGIAN POETRY 1913-15 AUTHOR: SIR EDWARD HOWARD MARSH EBOOK: E05716 (O'Briens Book Cellar) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GEORGIAN POETRY 1913-1915 IN MEMORIAM R.B. J.E.F. PREFATORY NOTE The object of 'Georgian Poetry' 1911-1912 was to give a convenient survey of the work published within two years by some poets of the newer generation. The book was welcomed; and perhaps, even in a time like this, those whom it interested may care to have a corresponding volume for the three years which have since passed. Two of the poets--I think the youngest, and certainly not the least gifted--are dead. Rupert Brooke, who seemed to have everything that is worth having, died last April in the service of his country. James Elroy Flecker, to whom life and death were less generous, died in January after a long and disabling illness. A few of the contributors to the former volume are not represented in this one, either because they have published nothing which comes within its scope, or because they belong in fact to an earlier poetic generation, and their inclusion must be allowed to have been an anachronism. Two names are added. The alphabetical arrangement of the writers has been modified in order to recognize the honour which Mr Gordon Bottomley has done to the book by allowing his play to be first published here. My thanks for permission to print the poems are due to Messrs Constable, Duckworth, Heinemann, Herbert Jenkins, Macmillan, Elkin Mathews, Methuen, Martin Seeker, and Sidgwick and Jackson; and to the Editors of 'Country Life', the 'English Review, Flying Fame, New Numbers', the 'New Statesman', and the 'Westminster Gazette'. E. M. Oct. 1915. CONTENTS GORDON BOTTOMLEY King Lear's Wife RUPERT BROOKE Tiare Tahiti (from '1914 and Other Poems') The Great Lover " " " Beauty and Beauty " " " Heaven " " " Clouds " " " Sonnet " " " The Soldier " " " WILLIAM H. DAVIES Thunderstorms (from 'Foliage') The Mind's Liberty (from 'The Bird of Paradise') The Moon " " " When on a Summer's Morn " " " A Great Time " " " The Hawk " " " Sweet Stay-at-Home (from 'Foliage') A Fleeting Passion (from 'The Bird of Paradise') The Bird of Paradise WALTER DE LA MARE Music Wanderers (from 'Peacock Pie') Melmillo " " " Alexander The Mocking Fairy " " " Full Moon " " " Off the Ground " " " JOHN DRINKWATER A Town Window (from 'Swords and Plough-shares') Of Greatham " " " The Carver in Stone " " " JAMES ELROY FLECKER The Old Ships A Fragment (from 'The Old Ships') Santorin (from 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand') Yasmin " " " Gates of Damascus " " " The Dying Patriot " " " WILFRID WILSON GIBSON The Gorse (from 'Thoroughfares') Hoops (from 'Borderlands') The Going RALPH HODGSON The Bull The Song of Honour D.H. LAWRENCE Service of all the Dead Meeting among the Mountains Cruelty and Love (from 'Love Poems and Others') FRANCIS LEDWIDGE The Wife of Llew (from 'Songs of the Fields') A Rainy Day in April " " " The Lost Ones " " " JOHN MASEFIELD The Wanderer (from 'Philip the King') HAROLD MONRO Milk for the Cat (from 'Children of Love') Overheard on a Saltmarsh " " Children of Love JAMES STEPHENS The Rivals (from 'Songs from the Clay') The Goatpaths " " " The Snare " " " In Woods and Meadows " " " Deirdre " " " LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The End of the World BIBLIOGRAPHY * * * * * GORDON BOTTOMLEY KING LEAR'S WIFE [1] (To T.S.M.) DRAMATIS PERSONAE: LEAR, King of Britain. HYGD, his Queen. GONERIL, daughter to King Lear. CORDEIL, daughter to King Lear. GORMFLAITH, waiting-woman to Queen Hygd. MERRYN, waiting-woman to Queen Hygd. A PHYSICIAN. TWO ELDERLY WOMEN. KING LEAR'S WIFE. [The scene is a bedchamber in a one-storied house. The walls consist of a few courses of huge irregular boulders roughly squared and fitted together; a thatched roof rises steeply from the back wall. In the centre of the back wall is a doorway opening on a garden and covered by two leather curtains; the chamber is partially hung with similar hangings stitched with bright wools. There is a small window on each side of this door. Toward the front a bed stands with its head against the right wall; it has thin leather curtains hung by thongs and drawn back. Farther forward a rich robe and a crown hang on a peg in the same wall. There is a second door beyond the bed, and between this and the bed's head stands a small table with a bronze lamp and a bronze cup on it. Queen HYGD, an emaciated woman, is asleep in the bed; her plenteous black hair, veined with silver, spreads over the pillow. Her waiting-woman, MERRYN, middle-aged and hard-featured, sits watching her in a chair on the farther side of the bed. The light of early morning fills the room.] Merryn: Many, many must die who long to live, Yet this one cannot die who longs to die: Even her sleep, come now at last, thwarts death, Although sleep lures us all half way to death ... I could not sit beside her every night If I believed that I might suffer so: I am sure I am not made to be diseased, I feel there is no malady can touch me-- Save the red cancer, growing where it will. [Taking her beads from her girdle, she kneels at the foot of the bed.] <<< END OF SAMPLE... (THE FULL EBOOK HAS 218716 TOTAL CHARACTERS) >>>