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Victorian

Alice Meynell

1847–1922

Alice Meynell (1847–1922) was an English poet, essayist, and suffragist, admired in her lifetime for the precision and restraint of her devout, closely observed lyrics.

A convert to Catholicism, she wrote often of motherhood, nature, and quiet spiritual attention.

Poems (92)

  1. To the Beloved
  2. The Shepherdess
  3. "i Am the Way"
  4. Via, Et Veritas, Et Vita
  5. "why Wilt Thou Chide?"
  6. The Lady Poverty
  7. The Fold
  8. Cradle-song at Twilight
  9. The Roaring Frost
  10. Parentage
  11. The Modern Mother
  12. West Wind in Winter
  13. November Blue
  14. Chimes
  15. Unto Us a Son is Given
  16. The Two Poets
  17. A Poet's Wife
  18. Veneration of Images
  19. At Night
  20. A Thrush Before Dawn
  21. Song (As the inhastening tide doth roll)
  22. Thoughts in Separation
  23. Renouncement
  24. The Modern Poet
  25. Builders of Ruins
  26. A Dead Harvest
  27. A Father of Women
  28. A General Communion
  29. A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age
  30. A Poet of One Mood
  31. A Shattered Lute
  32. A Wind of Clear Weather in England
  33. Advent Meditation
  34. After a Parting
  35. An Unmarked Festival
  36. Beyond Knowledge
  37. Christ in the Universe
  38. Easter Night
  39. Free Will
  40. In Autumn
  41. In Early Spring
  42. In February
  43. In Manchester Square
  44. In Portugal, 1912
  45. In Sleep
  46. Length of Days
  47. Maternity
  48. Messina, 1908
  49. Nurse Edith Cavell
  50. Parted
  51. Regrets
  52. Saint Catherine of Siena
  53. San Lorenzo's Mother
  54. Singers to Come
  55. Song of the Night at Daybreak
  56. Spring on the Alban Hills
  57. Summer in England, 1914
  58. Sœur Monique
  59. The Courts
  60. The Crucifixion
  61. The Day to the Night
  62. The Divine Privilege
  63. The First Snow
  64. The Fugitive
  65. The Garden
  66. The Joyous Wanderer
  67. The Launch
  68. The Lord's Prayer
  69. The Love of Narcissus
  70. The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
  71. The Moon to the Sun
  72. The Newer Vainglory
  73. The Rainy Summer
  74. The Spring to the Summer
  75. The Treasure
  76. The Two Questions
  77. The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries
  78. The Unexpected Peril
  79. The Unknown God
  80. The Watershed
  81. The Young Neophyte
  82. To Any Poet
  83. To O——, of Her Dark Eyes
  84. To Sylvia
  85. To Tintoretto in Venice
  86. To a Daisy
  87. To One Poem in a Silent Time
  88. To the Body
  89. Two Boyhoods
  90. Unlinked
  91. Veni Creator
  92. Your Own Fair Youth

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