Poems of power [electronic text]

CONTENTS

• The Meeting of the Centuries 9
• Death has Crowned Him a Martyr 12
• Grief 14
• Speech 16
• Illusion 17
• Assertion 18
• The Queen's Last Ride 19
• I Am 21
• Woman and War 23
• A Fallen Leaf 25
• This Too Shall Pass Away 26
• Success 28
• Recrimination 29
• Threefold 31
• Wishing 33
• We Two 34
• The Poet's Theme 35
• Love is All 37
• Song of the Spirit 39
• Womanhood 40
• Morning Prayer 41
• Voices of the People 42
• The World Grows Better 44
• The Bed 46
• Discontent 48
• A Man's Ideal 49
• War Sonnets . 50
• My Launch and I 52
• The Fire Brigade 54
• Progress 56
• The Tides 57
• That Day 58
• So Many Ways 60
• The Protest 62
• The Snowflake 63
• God's Motto 65
• How Like the Sea 66
• True Charity 67
• When the Regiment Came Back 68
• Woman to Man 69
• The Traveler 71
• The Earth 72
• Now 73
• You and To-day 74
• The Reason 75
• The Chain 76

• Mission 78
• Repetition 79
• Begin the Day 80
• Words 81
• Fate and I 82
• Unto the End 84
• Attainment 85
• A Plea to Peace 86
• Presumption 88
• High Noon 89
• Thought-Magnets 91
• Smiles 92
• The Undiscovered Country 94
• The Universal Route 95
• Unanswered Prayers 96
• Thanksgiving 98
• Contrasts 100
• Thy Ship 101
• Life 103
• A Marine Etching 105
• Love Thyself Last 106
• Christmas Fancies 107
• The River 110
• Sorry 112
• Ambition's Trail 114
• Uncontrolled 115
• Will 116
• To an Astrologer 117
• The Tendril's Fate 119
• The Times 120
• The Question 121
• Sorrow's Uses 122
• If 123
• Which Are You? 124
• The Creed to Be 126
• Inspiration 128
• The Wish 129
• Three Friends 130
• You Never Can Tell 132
• Here and Now 133
• Unconquered 135
• All That Love Asks 136
• Does It Pay? 138
• Sestina 139
• The Optimist 141
• The Pessimist 141
• An Aspiration 142
• Life's Harmonies 144
• Preparation 145
• Gethsemane 147
• God's Measure 149
• Noblesse Oblige 150
• A Domestic Conversation 151
• The Commercial Traveler 158
• The World's Need 159