Streets, and Other Verses

By Douglas Goldring

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547346616

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Douglas Goldring

Streets, and Other Verses

EAN 8596547346616

DigiCat, 2022

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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

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Streets

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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!

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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,

And watched