DESTROYERS
AND OTHER
VERSES
BY
HENRY HEAD, M.D., F.R.S.
HUMPHREY MILFORD
Oxford University Press
London • Edinburgh • Glasgow • New York
Toronto • Melbourne • Cape Town • Bombay
1919
Grateful acknowledgments for their courtesy in giving permission to republish some of these Verses are due to the following periodical Reviews:
To The Yale Review, Newhaven, Con., for "I cannot Stand and Wait," "Destroyers," and "Died of His Wounds."
To The English Review for "Homing Wings" and "The Price."
To The Dublin Review for "To Courage, Seated."
To Her
without whose touch the
strings would have been
mute
1914 to 1918
Songs of La Mouche
Part 1: Alfred Meissner
- The Journey from Havre
- Masqueraders
- In the Garden of the Luxembourg
- Watteauesque
- Sur la Rive Gauche
Part 2: Heinrich Heine
- The New Spring
- Mother of Heaven, I Pray Thee
- My Tender Ways and Laughter
- Fantasy
- The Post
- Last Night the Summer Thunder
- Home-coming
- August Is Blazing Through the Dingy Window
- East and West
- Lullaby
- You Dominate My Lightest Thought
- When Each Morning I Awaken
- Frau Mathilde's Parrot
- When I Am Old It May Be I Shall Sit
- My Love Welled Up in a Dry and Desolate Land
- Thin Rain Drifts Across the Pavement
- I Heard Them Say, "He Died Last Night"
- My Soul Revolves in Helpless Grief
- Yesterday to the Grave They Silently Bore Him
- Anniversary
- Envoy
Seedtime and Harvest
- In the Beginning God Created Man
- Above the Church, Above the Clock
- I Am Loved By Little Children
- When the Copse is Grey With Bud
- Long Ago I Used To Pray
- Within My Arms My Lord Became a Little Child
- No Longer, When the Cold and Sterile Moon
- To Her There Came At Dawn, As She Lay Still
- The First Fruits of A Pregnant Soul’s Increase
- Sleep, My Darling, Naught Can Harm Thee
- A Sparkling Coldness in the Morning Air
Sun and Shower
- I Have Wandered Round an Empire
- In My Copse a Blackbird Whistles
- About an Upland Meadow
- Grey Flowed the River, High up in the Sky
- Last Night There Came a Dream that it was Day
- Would That You Might Bear Me Away
- I Rode In Gathering Twilight
- Deep Within Me Springs a Fountain
- Deep Runs a Silent Music
- High Upon the Hill You Slumber
- Hid From Sight of Pasture Lands
- Willows Are White as Breath Upon Silver
- I Gallop, I Gallop Along
- A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light
Spring Death
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