MOTLEY AND OTHER POEMS -- 1918 - NOTE THE author wishes to thank the Editors of the Elzglish Review, the Times, the New Saiesma.n, Form, the Gipsy, the Yale Review, and the Westminster Gazette for permission to reprint poems included in this volume. A selection from among the poems included in this volume has been pub- lished in a limited edition in a volume issued by the Beaumont Press. CONTENTS THE LITTLE SALAMANDER, . THE LINNET, . . THE SUNKEN GARDEN, THE RIDDLERS, MOONLIGHT, . THE BLIND BOY, THE QUARRY, . MRS. GRUNDY, . THE TRYST, ALONE, . EMPTY, . MISTRESS FELL, THE GHOST, THE STRANGER, BETRAYAL, THE CAGE, THE REVENANT, MUSIC, a e THE REMONSTRANCE, NOCTURNE, THE EXILE, THE UNCHANGING, . NIGHTFALL, INVOCATION, . PAGE . 1 a 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 12 . l4 15 17 19 21 23 24 25 27 28 SO . 31 . 32 33 35 v ii ... Vlll CONTENTS EYES, LIFE, THE DISGUISE, . VAIN QUESTIONING, . VIGIL, THE OLD MEN, . THE DREAMER, . HAPPY ENGLAND, MOTLEY, . THE MARIONETTES, . TO E. T. 1917, . APRIL MOON, . THE FOOLS SONG, . CLEAR EYES, . DUST TO DUST, . THE THREE STRANGERS, . ALEXANDER, . THE REAWAKENING, . THE VACANT DAY, . THE FLIGHT, . THE TWO HOUSES, . FOR ALL THE GRIEF, THE SCRIBE, . FARE WELL, PAGE . 36 THE LITTLE SALAMANDER TO MARGOT WHEN I go free, 1 think twill be A night of stars and snow, And the wild fires of frost shall light My footsteps as I go Nobody-nobody will be there With groping touch, or sight, To see me in my bush of hair Dance burning through the night. THE LINNET THE LINNET UPON this leafy bush With thorns and roses in it, Flutters a thing of light, A twittering linnet. And all the throbbing world Of dew and sun and air By this small parcel of life Is made more fair As if each bramble-spray And mounded gold-wreathed furze, Harebell and little thyme, Were only hers As if this beauty and grace Did to one bird belong, And, at a flutter of wing, Might vanish in song.
