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    Later Poems
    Later Poems
    Later Poems
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    Later Poems

    By Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Later Poems - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

      Later Poems, by Alice Meynell

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Later Poems, by Alice Meynell

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Later Poems

      Author: Alice Meynell

      Release Date: July 9, 2007 [eBook #22032]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER POEMS***

      Transcribed from the 1902 John Lane, The Bodley Head edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      Later Poems

      By Alice Meynell

      Author of Poems

      London and New York

      John Lane, The Bodley Head

      1902

      Copyright, 1901

      By John Lane

      All rights reserved

      university press—john wilson

      and son—cambridge, u. s. a.

      TO

      A. T.

      Contents:

      The Shepherdess

      I am the Way

      Via, et Veritas, et Vita

      Why wilt Thou Chide?

      The Lady Poverty

      The Fold

      Cradle-song at Twilight

      The Roaring Frost

      Parentage

      The Modern Mother

      West Wind in Winter

      November Blue

      Chimes

      Unto us a Son is given

      A Dead Harvest

      The Two Poets

      A Poet’s Wife

      Veneration of Images

      At Night

      THE SHEPHERDESS

      She walks—the lady of my delight—

         A shepherdess of sheep.

      Her flocks are thoughts.  She keeps them white;

         She guards them from the steep.

      She feeds them on the fragrant height,

         And folds them in for sleep.

      She roams

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