The Farmer's Bride
THE FARMER'S BRIDE
(A NEW EDITION WITH ELEVEN NEW POEMS)
By CHARLOTTE MEW
THE FARMER'S BRIDE
THE FARMER'S BRIDE
By
CHARLOTTE MEW
[A new Edition with eleven new Poems]
LONDON
THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
35 DEVONSHIRE STREET, THEOBALD'S ROAD, W.C.
1921
Printed in England at
The Westminster Press, Harrow Road,
London, W.
The Author begs to thank the Editors of The Nation, The Westminster Gazette, The New Weekly, The Englishwoman, The Egoist, The Graphic, The Athenæum, and The Monthly Chapbook for permission to reprint some of the poems in this book.
To
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life: even for ever and ever.
CONTENTS
| page | ||
| The Farmer's Bride | 11 | |
| Fame | 13 | |
| The Narrow Door | 14 | |
| The Fete | 15 | |
| Beside the Bed | 20 | |
| In Nunhead Cemetery | 21 | |
| The Pedlar | 24 | |
| Pecheresse | 25 | |
| The Changeling | 27 | |
| Ken | 29 | |
| A Quoi Bon Dire | 32 | |
| The Quiet House | 33 | |
| On the Asylum Road | 36 | |
| Jour Des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse) | 37 | |
| The Forest Road | 38 | |
| Madeleine in Church | 40 | |
| Exspecto Resurrectionem | 47 | |
| On the Road to the Sea | 48 | |
| The Sunlit House | 50 | |
| The Shade-Catchers | 51 | |
| Le Sacre-Cœur (Montmartre) | 52 | |
| Song | 53 | |
| Saturday Market | 54 | |
| Arracombe Wood | 55 | |
| Sea Love | 56 | |
| The Road to Kerity | 57 | |
| I Have Been Through the Gates | 58 | |
| The Cenotaph | 59 | |
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