SONGS OF LOVE AND EMPIRE
BYE. NESBIT
AUTHOR OF “LAYS AND LEGENDS,” “A POMANDER OF VERSE,” ETCWESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO
1898“AFTER Sixty Years” appeared on June 22, 1897 in the Daily News; “To the Queen of England” and many other verses in the Pall Mall Gazette; “A Song of Peace and Honour” and “A Song of Trafalgar” in the Daily Chronicle, and certain other verses in the Athenæum. To the Editors of these papers my thanks are due.
TO HUBERT BLAND
TO you the harvest of my toil has come, Because of all that lies its sheaves between; You taught me first what Love and Empire mean, And to your hands I bring my harvest home. page: ixCONTENTS
- ABSOLUTION 167
- ADVENTURER, THE 58
- AFTER SIXTY YEARS 11
- APPEAL, THE 93
- “AT EVENING TIME THERE SHALL BE LIGHT” 150
- AT THE SOUND OF THE DRUM 67
- BALLAD OF THE WHITE LADY, THE 43
- BETRAYED 109
- BY FAITH WITH THANKSGIVING 91
- CHAINS INVISIBLE 147
- CHRISTMAS HYMN 164
- CROWN OF LIFE, THE 157
- DIRGE 125
- DISCRETION 86
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- EBB‐TIDE 132
- ENTREATY 83
- EVENING PRAYER 162
- EVENING SONG 129
- FAITH 62
- FAUTE DE MIEUX 99
- FEBRUARY 139
- FOREST POOL, THE 84
- GHOST BEREFT, THE 50
- GOOSE GIRL, THE 69
- GUARDIAN ANGEL, THE 74
- HAUNTED 123
- HEART OF GRIEF, THE 115
- HEART OF JOY, THE 113
- HEART OF SADNESS, THE 111
- IN ECLIPSE 103
- IN THE ENCHANTED TOWER 60
- LAST ACT, THE 97
- “LOVE WELL THE HOUR” 107
- MAGNIFICAT 159
- MAIDENHOOD 152
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- MEDWAY SONG 144
- MONK, THE 155
- NEW COLLEGE GARDENS, OXFORD 135
- OFFERING, THE 82
- ON THE DOWNS 133
- OUT OF HOPE 121
- PEDLAR, THE 71
- PORTRAIT, A 80
- PRELUDE 66
- PROMISE OF SPRING, THE 141
- QUEEN OF ENGLAND, THE 3
- REFUSAL, THE 64
- REQUIEM 117
- “SHEPHERDS ALL AND MAIDENS FAIR” 77
- SONG IN AUTUMN 95
- SONG OF LONG AGO 101
- SONG OF PEACE AND HONOUR 35
- SONG OF TRAFALGAR 26
- SPECIAL PLEADING 105
- SPRING SONG 88
- TEINT NEUTRE 119
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- “THIS DESIRABLE MANSION” 131
- TO A TULIP BULB 137
- TOO LATE 90
- TRAFALGAR DAY 24
- VAIN SPELL, THE 55
- WATERLOO DAY 32