Destroyers and Other Verses

by Henry Head

DESTROYERS
AND OTHER
VERSES

 

BY
HENRY HEAD, M.D., F.R.S.

 

HUMPHREY MILFORD
Oxford University Press
London • Edinburgh • Glasgow • New York
Toronto • Melbourne • Cape Town • Bombay
1919

Grateful acknowledgments for their courtesy in giving permission to republish some of these Verses are due to the following periodical Reviews:

To The Yale Review, Newhaven, Con., for "I cannot Stand and Wait," "Destroyers," and "Died of His Wounds."

To The English Review for "Homing Wings" and "The Price."

To The Dublin Review for "To Courage, Seated."

To Her
without whose touch the
strings would have been
mute

Contents (not listed in original)

1914 to 1918

• I Cannot Stand and Wait
• Homing Wings
• Paris. April, 1916
• The Price
• Destroyers
• Died of His Wounds
• Epiphany
• To Courage, Seated
• Elan Vital
• Pegasus

Songs of La Mouche

• "La Mouche"

Part 1: Alfred Meissner

• The Journey from Havre
• Masqueraders
• In the Garden of the Luxembourg
• Watteauesque
• Sur la Rive Gauche

Part 2: Heinrich Heine

• The New Spring
• Mother of Heaven, I Pray Thee
• My Tender Ways and Laughter
• Fantasy
• The Post
• Last Night the Summer Thunder
• Home-coming
• August Is Blazing Through the Dingy Window
• East and West
• Lullaby
• You Dominate My Lightest Thought
• When Each Morning I Awaken
• Frau Mathilde's Parrot
• When I Am Old It May Be I Shall Sit
• My Love Welled Up in a Dry and Desolate Land
• Thin Rain Drifts Across the Pavement
• I Heard Them Say, "He Died Last Night"
• My Soul Revolves in Helpless Grief
• Yesterday to the Grave They Silently Bore Him
• Anniversary
• Envoy

Seedtime and Harvest

• In the Beginning God Created Man
• Above the Church, Above the Clock
• I Am Loved By Little Children
• When the Copse is Grey With Bud
• Long Ago I Used To Pray
• Within My Arms My Lord Became a Little Child
• No Longer, When the Cold and Sterile Moon
• To Her There Came At Dawn, As She Lay Still
• The First Fruits of A Pregnant Soul’s Increase
• Sleep, My Darling, Naught Can Harm Thee
• A Sparkling Coldness in the Morning Air

Sun and Shower

• I Have Wandered Round an Empire
• In My Copse a Blackbird Whistles
• About an Upland Meadow
• Grey Flowed the River, High up in the Sky
• Last Night There Came a Dream that it was Day
• Would That You Might Bear Me Away
• I Rode In Gathering Twilight
• Deep Within Me Springs a Fountain
• Deep Runs a Silent Music
• High Upon the Hill You Slumber
• Hid From Sight of Pasture Lands
• Willows Are White as Breath Upon Silver
• I Gallop, I Gallop Along
• A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light

Spring Death

• Spring Death

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