THOMAS HARDY (1840- )
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 3
Going and Staying 4
The Man He Killed 4
ROBERT BRIDGES (1844- )
Winter Nightfall 5
Nightingales 7
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881)
Ode 8
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
Invictus 10
The Blackbird 10
A Bowl of Roses 11
Before 11
Margaritae Sorori 12
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)
Summer Sun 13
Winter-Time 14
Romance 15
Requiem 16
ALICE MEYNELL (1850- )
A Thrush Before Dawn 16
FIONA MACLEOD (_William Sharp_) (1855-1905)
The Valley of Silence 18
The Vision 19
OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)
Requiescat 20
Impression du Matin 21
JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909)
A Ballad of Hell 22
Imagination 26
WILLIAM WATSON (1858- )
Ode in May 28
Estrangement 30
Song 31
FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
Daisy 32
To Olivia 34
An Arab Love-Song 35
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859- )
Reveille 36
When I Was One-and-Twenty 37
With Rue My Heart is Laden 38
To An Athlete Dying Young 38
"Loveliest of Trees" 39
DOUGLAS HYDE (1860- )
I Shall Not Die for Thee 40
AMY LEVY (1861-1889)
Epitaph 42
In the Mile End Road 42
KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON (1861- )
Sheep and Lambs 43
All-Souls 44
OWEN SEAMAN (1861- )
To An Old Fogey 45
Thomas of the Light Heart 47
HENRY NEWBOLT (1862- )
Drake's Drum 49
ARTHUR SYMONS (1865- )
In the Wood of Finvara 50
Modern Beauty 51
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865- )
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 53
The Song of the Old Mother 53
The Cap and Bells 54
An Old Song Resung 55
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865- )
Gunga Din 57
The Return 61
The Conundrum of the Workshops 63
An Astrologer's Song 66
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE (1866- )
A Ballad of London 69
Regret 70
LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902)
Mystic and Cavalier 71
To a Traveller 73
ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
To One in Bedlam 74
You Would Have Understood Me 75
"A. E." (_George William Russell_) (1867- )
The Great Breath 76
The Unknown God 77
STEPHEN PHILLIPS (1868-1915)
Fragment from "Herod" 78
Beautiful Lie the Dead 78
A Dream 79
LAURENCE BINYON (1869- )
A Song 79
The House That Was 80
ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870- )
The Green River 81
T. STURGE MOORE (1870- )
The Dying Swan 82
Silence Sings 82
WILLIAM H. DAVIES (1870- )
Days Too Short 84
The Moon 85
The Villain 85
The Example 86
HILAIRE BELLOC (1870- )
The South Country 87
ANTHONY C. DEANE (1870- )
The Ballad of the _Billycock_ 90
A Rustic Song 92
J. M. SYNGE (1871-1909)
Beg-Innish 95
A Translation from Petrarch 96
To the Oaks of Glencree 96
NORA HOPPER CHESSON (1871-1906)
A Connaught Lament 97
EVA GORE-BOOTH (1872- )
The Waves of Breffny 98
Walls 99
MOIRA O'NEILL
A Broken Song 99
Beauty's a Flower 100
JOHN MCCRAE (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields 101
FORD MADOX HUEFFER (1873- )
Clair de Lune 102
There Shall Be More Joy 104
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873- )
The Listeners 106
An Epitaph 107
Tired Tim 108
Old Susan 108
Nod 109
G. K. CHESTERTON (1874- )
Lepanto 111
A Prayer in Darkness 118
The Donkey 119
WILFRID WILSON GIBSON (1878- )
Prelude 120
The Stone 121
Sight 124
JOHN MASEFIELD (1878- )
A Consecration 126
Sea-Fever 127
Rounding the Horn 128
The Choice 131
Sonnet 132
LORD DUNSANY (1878- )
Songs from an Evil Wood 133
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
If I Should Ever By Chance 136
Tall Nettles 137
Fifty Faggots 137
Cock-Crow 138
SEUMAS O'SULLIVAN (1879- )
Praise 139
RALPH HODGSON
Eve 140
Time, You Old Gipsy Man 142
The Birdcatcher 144
The Mystery 144
HAROLD MONRO (1879- )
The Nightingale Near the House 145
Every Thing 146
Strange Meetings 149
T. M. KETTLE (1880-1916)
To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God 150
ALFRED NOYES (1880- )
Sherwood 151
The Barrel-Organ 154
Epilogue 161
PADRAIC COLUM (1881- )
The Plougher 162
An Old Woman of the Roads 164
JOSEPH CAMPBELL (_Seosamh MacCathmhaoil_) (1881- )
I Am the Mountainy Singer 165
The Old Woman 166
JAMES STEPHENS (1882- )
The Shell 167
What Tomas An Buile Said In a Pub 168
To the Four Courts, Please 169
JOHN DRINKWATER (1882- )
Reciprocity 170
A Town Window 170
JAMES JOYCE (1882- )
I Hear an Army 171
J. C. SQUIRE (1884- )
A House 172
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (1884- )
From "Vashti" 175
Song 176
JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884-1915)
The Old Ships 178
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885- )
People 180
Piano 180
JOHN FREEMAN (1885- )
Stone Trees 181
SHANE LESLIE (1886- )
Fleet Street 183
The Pater of the Cannon 183
FRANCES CORNFORD (1886- )
Preexistence 184
ANNA WICKHAM
The Singer 186
Reality 186
Song 187
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886- )
To Victory 189
Dreamers 190
The Rear-Guard 190
Thrushes 191
Aftermath 192
RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915)
The Great Lover 195
Dust 198
The Soldier 200
W. M. LETTS (1887- )
Grandeur 201
The Spires of Oxford 203
FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG
Lochanilaun 204
F. S. FLINT
London 205
EDITH SITWELL
The Web of Eros 206
Interlude 207
F. W. HARVEY (1888- )
The Bugler 208
T. P. CAMERON WILSON (1889-1918)
Sportsmen in Paradise 209
W. J. TURNER (1889- )
Romance 210
PATRICK MACGILL (1890)
By-the-Way 211
Death and the Fairies 212
FRANCIS LEDWIDGE (1891-1917)
An Evening in England 213
Evening Clouds 214
IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD (1891- )
"Is Love, then, so Simple" 215
Lone Dog 215
RICHARD ALDINGTON (1892- )
Prelude 216
Images 217
At the British Museum 218
EDWARD SHANKS (1892- )
Complaint 219
OSBERT SITWELL (1892- )
The Blind Pedlar 220
Progress 221
ROBERT NICHOLS (1893- )
Nearer 222
CHARLES H. SORLEY (1895-1915)
Two Sonnets 223
To Germany 225
ROBERT GRAVES (1895- )
It's a Queer Time 226
A Pinch of Salt 227
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? 228
The Last Post 229