The complete poems of Richard Aldington

366 Pages·1948·5.058 MB·English

by  Richard Aldington

THE C O M P L E T E P O E M S OF
R IC H A R D A L D I N G T O N
Also by Richard Aldington:
Fifty Romance Lyric Poems
COMPLETE POEMS
of
RICHARD
ALDINGTON
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A L L A N W IN G A T E
L O N D O N
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INTRODUCTION 13
IMAGES 19
Choricos 21
To a Greek Marble 24
Argyria 25
i4i Mitylene 26
Stele 27
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Lemures 29
Hermes, Leader of the Dead 30
The River 31
Epigrams 32
Beauty, Thou hast hurt Me Overmuch 33
In the Old Garden 34
June Rain 34
In the Via Sistina 35
Amalfi 35
Bromios 36
Images 38
The Faun sees Snow for the First Time 39
Reflections 40
Summer 42
Scents 42
The Poplar 43
After Two Years 44
At the British Museum 45
At Nights 46
Church Walk, Kensington 47
St Mary’s, Kensington 47
Evening 48
Cinema Exit 48
In the Tube 49
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Interlude 50
Hampstead Heath 50
London 5i
Eros and Psyche 52
Childhood 55
Daisy 6o
Round Pond 6i
Whitechapel 62
Images 63
Inarticulate Grief 64
Fantasy 65
R. V. and Another 66
Prayer 67
Captive 68
Sunsets 68
The Faun Captive 69
IAGBS OF WAR 7i
Proem 73
Vicarious Atonement 74
Leave-taking 75
Bondage 76
Field Manoeuvres 77
Dawn 78
The Lover 79
A Moment's Interlude 80
Insouciance 80
On the March 81
In the Trenches 82
Ananke 84
Misery 85
Living Sepulchres 86
Daughter of Zeus 86
Picket 87
Trench Idyll 88
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Times Changes 89
A Village. 90
The Wine Cup 92
Machine Guns 93
Battlefield 93
Three Little Girls 94
A Ruined House 94
Soliloquy 1 95
Soliloquy 2 96
A Young Tree 97
Reverie 98
April Lieder 102
Barrage 102
¿Ln JBorf/z Goddess 103
Bombardment 105
Two Epitaphs 106
Concert 108
Taintignies 108
Terror 109
Defeat 111
Doubt 114
Resentment 116
Disdain 116
Apathy 117
The Blood of the Young Men 119
Epilogue 122
IMAGES OF DESIRE 123
Prelude 125
An Old Song 126
Epigrams 127
Possession 128
An Interlude 129
Ella 130
Her Mouth 131
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Portrait 132
Daybreak 133
Sleep 134
Reserve 134
Images of Desire 135
Before Parting 137
Prayer 13?
Loss 139
A Soldier's Song 140
Absence 141
Gain 142
Cynthia 143
The Winter Park 144
Meditation 145
Odelette 147
Epilogue 148
EXILE 149
Exile 150
Eumenides 152
Le Maudit 155
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Meditation 158
In the Palace Garden 160
Epitaph in Ballade Form 161
At a Gate by the Way 163
Rhapsody in a Third-class Carriage 165
Freedom 166
Retreat 167
Having Seen Men Killed 168
Nightingale 169
Papillons 170
Truth 171
The Parrot 172
To Those Who played for Safety in Life 174
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WORDS FOR MUSIC 175
Songs for Puritans 177
Songs for Sensualists 181
Metrical Exercises 183
A FOOL I* THE FORBST • 189
A DREAM IN THE LUXEMBOURG 24I
THE EATEN HEART 2J$
SHORT POEMS 289
In Memory of Wilfred Owen 302
Epilogue to *Death of a Hero* 303
LIFE QUEST 305
NEW POEMS 329
A Place of Young Pines 331
A Grave 332
To One Dead 333
Dilemma 334
January Aconites 335
Morning in the South 336
Death of Another Hero 337
1933 338
Life goes on 340
THE CRYSTAL WORLD 341
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