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Title: Later Poems

Author: Alice Meynell

Release Date: July 9, 2007 [eBook #22032]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1902 John Lane, The Bodley Head edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

Later Poems

By Alice Meynell
Author of "Poems"

London and New York
John Lane, The Bodley Head
1902

_Copyright_, 1901
BY JOHN LANE
_All rights reserved_

UNIVERSITY PRESS--JOHN WILSON
AND SON--CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

TO

A. T.

Contents:

The Shepherdess
"I am the Way"
Via, et Veritas, et Vita
Why wilt Thou Chide?
The Lady Poverty
The Fold
Cradle-song at Twilight
The Roaring Frost
Parentage
The Modern Mother
West Wind in Winter
November Blue
Chimes
Unto us a Son is given
A Dead Harvest
The Two Poets
A Poet's Wife
Veneration of Images
At Night

THE SHEPHERDESS

She walks--the lady of my delight--
A shepherdess of sheep.
Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;
She guards them from the steep.
She feeds them on the fragrant height,
And folds them in for sleep.

She roams maternal hills and bright,
Dark valleys safe and deep.
Into that tender breast at night
The chastest stars may peep.
She walks--the lady of my delight--
A shepherdess of sheep.

She holds her little thoughts in sight,
Though gay they run and leap.
She is so circumspect and right;
She has her soul to keep.
She walks--the lady of my delight--
A shepherdess of sheep.

"I AM THE WAY"

Thou art the Way.
Hadst Thou been nothing but the goal,
I cannot say
If Thou hadst ever met my soul.

I cannot see--
I, child of process--if there lies
An end for me,
Full of repose, full of replies.

I'll not reproach
The way that goes, my feet that stir.
Access, approach,
Art Thou, time, way, and wayfarer.

VIA, ET VERITAS, ET VITA

"You never attained to Him?" "If to attain
Be to abide, then that may be."
"Endless the way, followed with how much pain!"
"Th