Modern British Poetry

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document . MODERN BRITISH POETRY EDITED BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER Author of " Challenge ," " Including Horace ," " Modern American Poetry ," etc. NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint the material in this volume, the editor wishes, first of all, to acknowledge his debt to those poets whose co-operation has been of such assistance not only in finally determining upon the choice of their poems, but in collecting dates, biographical data, etc. Secondly, he wishes to thank the publishers, most of whom are holders of the copyrights. The latter indebtedness is specifically acknowledged to: Doubleday, Page & Company and A. P. Watt & Son — For "The Return" from The Five Nations and for "An Astrologer's Song" from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling. Thanks also are due to Mr. Kipling himself for personal permission to reprint these poems. Doubleday, Page & Company and Martin Secker — For the poem from Collected Poems by James Elroy Flecker. E. P. Dutton & Company — For the poems from The Old Huntsman , Counter-Attack and Picture Show by Siegfried Sassoon. Four Seas Company — For poems from War and Love by Richard Aldington and The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell). Henry Holt and Company — For poems from Peacock Pie and The Listeners by Walter de la Mare and Poems by Edward Thomas. Houghton Mifflin Company — For two poems from Poems, 1908-1919 , by John Drinkwater, both of which are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers. B. W. Huebsch — For the selections from Chamber Music by James Joyce, Songs to Save a Soul and Before Dawn by Irene Rutherford McLeod, Amores, Look! We Have Come Through! , and New Poems by D. H. Lawrence. Alfred A. Knopf — For poems from The Collected Poems of William H. Davies , Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves, The Queen of China and Other Poems by Edward Shanks, and Poems: First Series by J. C. Squire. John Lane Company — For the selections from Poems by G. K. Chesterton, Ballads and Songs by John…