The Veil and other poems
Appearance
Seven of the poems included in this collection were written for Drawings by Miss Pamela Bianco, and were first published by Mr. Heinemann in a volume entitled Flora. The author's thanks are due to Mr. Sydney Pawling for permission to reprint these poems; to Mr. Cyril Beaumont for the use of 'Tidings' from a Play for Children, entitled Crossings; and, for permission to include several other poems, to the Editors of the London Mercury, the New Republic, the Spectator, the Nation, the Century Magazine, the Cambridge Magazine, the Literary Review, the Sphere, the New Statesman, the Bookman's Journal, the Broom, the Outlook, the Athenœum, and the Westminster Gazette.
THE VEIL
and other
POEMS
By
WALTER DE LA MARE
New York
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OT AMERICA
NOTE
Contents
page The Imp Within 3 The Old Angler 5 The Willow 10 Titmouse 11 The Veil 12 The Fairy in Winter 13 The Flower 14 Before Dawn 15 The Spectre 17 The Voice 18 The Hour-Glass 19 In the Dock 20 The Wreck 21 The Suicide 22 Drugged 23 Who's That? 25 Hospital 26 A Sign 28 Good-Bye 30 The Monologue 31 Awake! 34 Forgiveness 35 The Moth 36 Not That Way 37 page Crazed 39 Fog 40 SOTTO VOCE 42 The Imagination's Pride 44 The Wanderers 46 The Corner Stone 48 The Spirit of Air 50 The Unfinished Dream 51 Music 54 Tidings 56 The Son of Melancholy 57 The Quiet Enemy 60 The Familiar 61 Maerchen 63 Gold 64 Mirage 65 Flotsam 67 Mourn'st Thou Now? 68 The Galliass 69 The Decoy 70 Sunk Lyonesse 71 The Chatechism 72 Futility 73 Bitter Waters 74 Who? 76 A Riddle 77 The Owl 79 The Last Coachload 80 An Epitaph 84
THE VEIL AND OTHER POEMS
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