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John Freeman

1880–1929

John Freeman (dates as printed in Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920): 1885–1929) was an English poet who worked as an insurance executive while writing verse and criticism. He was associated with the Georgian poets; his book Stone Trees appeared in 1916.

The poem here comes from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

Poems (215)

  1. Stone Trees
  2. The Evening Sky
  3. Beechwood
  4. Thy Hill Leave Not
  5. The Caves
  6. I Will Ask
  7. In Those Old Days
  8. The Ash
  9. Imagination
  10. No More Adieu
  11. The Visit
  12. Travelling
  13. The Song of the Forest: I
  14. The Song of the Forest: II
  15. The Song of the Forest: III
  16. The Song of the Forest: IV
  17. The Song of the Forest: V
  18. The Song of the Forest: VI
  19. The Song of the Forest: VII
  20. The Song of the Forest: VIII
  21. The Song of the Forest: IX
  22. Out of the East
  23. The Wakers
  24. Memories of Childhood: I. Childhood Calls
  25. Memories of Childhood: II. The Answer
  26. Memories of Childhood: III. The First House
  27. Memories of Childhood: IV. The Other House
  28. Memories of Childhood: V. The Fire
  29. Memories of Childhood: VI. The Kite
  30. Memories of Childhood: VII. The Chair
  31. Memories of Childhood: VIII. The Swing
  32. Memories of Childhood: IX. Fear
  33. Memories of Childhood: X. The Streets
  34. Memories of Childhood: XI. When Childhood Died
  35. Memories of Childhood: XII. All that I was I am
  36. The Shock
  37. The Unloosening
  38. Wild Heart: I. Dark and Strange
  39. Wild Heart: II. Wild Heart
  40. Wild Heart: III. Home for Love
  41. Wild Heart: IV. The Alde
  42. Wild Heart: V. Against the Cold Pale Sky
  43. Wild Heart: VI. The Dark Fire
  44. Wild Heart: VII. The Kestrel
  45. Wild Heart: VIII. The Image
  46. Wild Heart: IX. Perversities I
  47. Wild Heart: X. Perversities II
  48. Wild Heart: XI. The Valley
  49. Wild Heart: XII. The Dark Night of the Mind
  50. The Body
  51. The Tossing Mountains
  52. The Pond
  53. Ten O'clock No More
  54. From Wear to Thames
  55. Time from his Grave
  56. Wilder Music
  57. Grasses
  58. Fair and Brief
  59. Nightfall: I
  60. Nightfall: II
  61. Nightfall: III
  62. Nightfall: IV
  63. The Slaves
  64. The Fugitive
  65. The Unthrift
  66. The Wren
  67. The Winds
  68. The Wanderer
  69. Merrill's Garden
  70. The Lime Tree
  71. Dark Chestnut
  72. Lonely Airs
  73. The Creeper
  74. Smoke
  75. Queens
  76. The Red House
  77. The Beam
  78. Last Hours
  79. The Wish
  80. Nowhere, Everywhere
  81. Take Care, Take Care
  82. Nearness
  83. The Second Flood
  84. The Glass
  85. But Most Thy Light
  86. In that Dark Silent Hour
  87. Once There was Time
  88. Scatter the Silver Ash like Snow
  89. Justification
  90. I have Never Loved You Yet
  91. The Pigeons
  92. And These for You: I. Not With These Eyes
  93. And These for You: II. Asking Forgiveness
  94. Judgment Day
  95. Lighting the Fire
  96. Recovery
  97. Eyes
  98. Fulfilment
  99. Bring your Beauty
  100. Memorial
  101. The Human Music
  102. The Candle
  103. Old Fires
  104. The Crowns
  105. The Bright Rider
  106. To the Heavenly Power
  107. Snows
  108. The Thorn
  109. Change
  110. Beyond the Barn
  111. Let Honour Speak
  112. Talk
  113. The Undying
  114. The Native Country
  115. It was the Lovely Moon
  116. The Hounds
  117. Hector
  118. Listening
  119. Stones
  120. The Enemies
  121. The Silvery One
  122. The Flute
  123. Stars
  124. Ten O'clock and Four O'clock
  125. The Yew
  126. November Skies
  127. Delight
  128. Change
  129. Sleeping Sea
  130. The Weaver of Magic
  131. The Darksome Nightingale
  132. Under the Linden Branches
  133. Strife
  134. Foreboding
  135. Discovery
  136. More than Sweet
  137. The Brightness
  138. The Holy Mountains
  139. Rapture
  140. Music Comes
  141. The Idiot
  142. The Mouse
  143. Happiness
  144. Comfortable Light
  145. Hallo!
  146. Fear
  147. Waking
  148. The Fall
  149. Stay!
  150. Shadows
  151. Walking at Eve
  152. The Physician
  153. Vision and Echo
  154. Some Hurt Thing
  155. The Waits
  156. In the Lane
  157. The Last Time
  158. You that Were
  159. "The Light that Never was on Sea or Land"
  160. At Evening's Hush
  161. Happy Death
  162. Wisdom and a Mother
  163. The Thrush Sings
  164. To My Mother
  165. The Unuttered
  166. Fair Eve
  167. The Snare
  168. O Hide Me in Thy Love
  169. Prayer to my Lord
  170. The Tree
  171. Earth to Earth
  172. On a Piece of Silver
  173. The Escape
  174. Wonder
  175. The Lamp
  176. Who is it that Answers?
  177. Waiting
  178. Absence
  179. Sleep
  180. Your Shadow
  181. The Full Tide
  182. The Night Watch
  183. The Haunted Shadow
  184. Alone and Cold
  185. Inevitable Change
  186. Loneliness
  187. I heard a Voice upon the Window beat
  188. First Love: I
  189. First Love: II
  190. First Love: III
  191. The Call
  192. The Shade
  193. Happy is England Now
  194. The Stars in their Courses
  195. Sweet England
  196. Presage of Victory: I
  197. Presage of Victory: II
  198. Presage of Victory: III
  199. Presage of Victory: IV
  200. Presage of Victory: V
  201. Presage of Victory: VI
  202. The Return
  203. English Hills
  204. Homecoming
  205. England's Enemy
  206. From Piccadilly in August
  207. Evening Beauty: Blackfriars
  208. Sailing of the Glory
  209. At the Dock
  210. "The Men who loved the Cause that Never Dies"
  211. O Muse Divine
  212. Night and Night
  213. The Herd
  214. Moon-Bathers
  215. Caterpillars

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