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"This is where life is lived nobly and sweetly and well:
Here are beauty, all hardly-won things, and courage and love.
Why people worship the slums and the poor so, I can never tell,
For it's virtue and baths and good cooking go hand in glove!"
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Streets, and Other Verses - Douglas Goldring
Douglas Goldring
Streets, and Other Verses
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066122799
Table of Contents
Part I
Streets
Villas
Cherry Gardens
Mare Street, N.E.
Kingsland Road, N.E.
Living-In
Newport Street, E.
The Spanish Sailor
Outside Charing Cross
Saloon Bar, Railway Arms
Mrs. Skeffyngton Calhus
Little Houses
Malise-Robes
The Young Married Couple
First Floor Back
Maisonnettes
Walworth Road
The Country Boy
The Letter
Lodgings
L’Ile de Java
The Poplars
West End Lane
Hampstead
Oak Hill Way
Spaniards’
Richmond Park
Westminster Bridge
Gladstone Terrace
Front Doors
The Ballad of the Brave Lover
The Quarry
In a Taxi
In Praise of London
Part II
Highbrow Hill
Post-Georgian Poet in Search of a Master
Merveilleuses des nos Jours
Daisymead
Benevolence
Mr. Reginald Hyphen
She-Devil
Ritz
A Triumphal Ode
Part III
Moritura
The Voices
Cuckfield Park
Now slants the moonlight ...
Sang a Maid at Peep of Day
A Home-Coming
The Kiss
On the Promenade
June
To ——
The Case of Pierrot
Pompes Funèbres
Ah! You Moon
A Little Poem on Sin
Heart and Soul
The Singer’s Journey
Part IV
Brighton Beach
Beaugency-sur-Loire
In Picardy
Calle Memo O Loredan
Barcelona
Juillac-le-Coq
Roads
Envoi
Some Press Opinions of Mr. Goldring’s Verses.
Part I
Table of Contents
Streets
Table of Contents
Church Street wears ever a smile, from having watched bright belles
Coming home with young men, after balls, at all hours.
Its villas don’t mind; they say, "Go it, young swells,
We’ve been young, too!" But Ebenezer Street glowers.
Chapel deacons live here, with side whiskers and pompous wives,
Who play hymns on Sundays, and deeply deplore sinful acts.
They’re convinced that their neighbours lead scandalous private lives;
—That you and I ought to be shot, if one knew all the facts.
Goreham Street’s sad. Here lives old Jones the poet—
He knew Swinburne and Watts, and has letters from dear Charlie Keene.
Loo Isaacs lives here as well, and poor Captain Jowett:
And the Goreham Street Murder
was over at number thirteen.
Now George Street (E.C.) strikes a cheerful and strenuous note;
It is full of live men of business, of ’buses and noise;
Of Surbiton gents, very sleek, in top-hat and fur coat;
And earnest young clerks who perspire, and take classes for boys.
But Audley Street has a calm and a gently fastidious air!
Here I shall live when I’m rich, with my wife and my car:
When we are pleased, we’ll never shout nor ruffle our hair,
And a lift of the eyebrow will show how annoyed we are.
This is where life is lived nobly and sweetly and well:
Here are beauty, all hardly-won things, and courage and love.
Why people worship the slums and the poor so, I can never tell,
For it’s virtue and baths and good cooking go hand in glove!
Villas
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(Leytonstone)
All down Jamaica Road there are small bow windows
Jutting out neighbourly heads in the street,
And in each sits, framed, a quiet old woman.
These watch the couples who pass or meet,
And some have borne sons, now ageing men;
And most have seen death in their narrow house;
Heard wedding bells for their grandchildren;
Seen boys seek the bar for a last carouse;
And heard wives cry, through thin plaster walls,