_The_ poems of this book were written at very various times, one ("Wind
over the Sea") I believe even as early as 1910, but the order in which
they are here given is not chronological beyond the fact that the third
part contains only poems written after the outbreak of the war. Of these
some were written in England (at Oxford in particular), some in Wales
and very many during a year in France from November 1915 to December
1916, which was broken by one leave in the middle of May.
"The Burial of Sophocles," which is here placed at the end, was begun
before the war and continued at odd times and in various circumstances
afterwards; the final version was sent me from the trenches.
Beyond these few facts no prelude and no _envoi_ is needed other than
those here printed as their author left them.