"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems

By Louise Imogen Guiney

""England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems" by Louise Imogen Guiney
Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, essayist and editor. However, in this book is a collection of poems that expand far past US borders. On First Entering Westminster Abbey, Fog, Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Strikers in Hyde Park, Changes in the Temple, The Lights of London, and On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford are just some of the poems in this collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066233013

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Louise Imogen Guiney

England and Yesterday: A Book of Short Poems

Published by Good Press, 2022

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LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. TO HERBERT E. CLARKE.

I. ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

II. FOG.

III. S. PETER-AD-VINCULA.

IV. STRIKERS IN HYDE PARK.

V. CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE.

VI. THE LIGHTS OF LONDON.

VII. DOVES.

VIII. IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IX. SUNDAY CHIMES IN THE CITY.

X. A PORCH IN BELGRAVIA.

XI. YORK STAIRS.

XII. IN THE DOCKS.

OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN THERE IN 1890 AND 1895. TO LIONEL JOHNSON.

I. THE TOW-PATH.

II. THE OLD DIAL OF CORPUS.

III. AD ANTIQUARIUM.

IV. ROOKS IN NEW COLLEGE GARDENS.

V. ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD.

VI. ON THE SAME (CONTINUED) .

VII. A DECEMBER WALK.

VIII. UNDERTONES AT MAGDALEN.

IX. PORT MEADOW.

X. MARTYRS’ MEMORIAL.

XI. A LAST VIEW.

XII. RETRIEVAL.

LYRICS. TO DORA SIGERSON SHORTER AND CLEMENT SHORTER.

A BALLAD OF KENELM.

TWO IRISH PEASANT SONGS.

I. IN LEINSTER.

II. IN ULSTER.

IN A RUIN, AFTER A THUNDERSTORM.

TO A CHILD.

IN A PERPENDICULAR CHURCH.

A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SONG.

COLUMBA AND THE STORK.

THE CHANTRY.

APRIL IN GOVILON.

ON LEAVING WINCHESTER.

ON THE CENOTAPH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL IN SAINT GEORGE’S CHAPEL.

OF JOAN’S YOUTH.

PASSING THE MINSTER.

THE YEW-TREE.

SHROPSHIRE LANDSCAPE.

THE GRAHAM TARTAN TO A GRAHAM.

IN A LONDON STREET.

ATHASSEL ABBEY.

ROMANS IN DORSET. (TO A. B.)

LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES. TO GWENLLIAN E. F. MORGAN.

TO HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.

FOR IZAAK WALTON.

A MEMORY OF A BRECONSHIRE VALLEY.

I.

II.

WRIT IN MY LORD CLARENDON’S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION.

A LAST WORD ON SHELLEY.

AN EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM HAZLITT.

EMILY BRONTË.

PAX PAGANICA.

VALEDICTION (R. L. S., 1894) .

LONDON:

SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889.

TO HERBERT E. CLARKE.

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I.

ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

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Holy of England! since my light is short

And faint, O rather by the sun anew

Of timeless passion set my dial true,

That with thy saints and thee I may