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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 CUV A L L A N W IN G A T E L O N D O N First published mcmxlviii ( by Allan Wingate Publishers) Limited 64 Great Cumberland Place London Wi Set in Monotype Bembo type and printed in Great Britain by Tonbridge Printers Ltd Tonbridge All rights reserved / t (r- ■ /■ w vf £2:^7 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 13 IMAGES 19 Choricos 21 To a Greek Marble 24 Argyria 25 i4i Mitylene 26 Stele 27 28 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 Bones 1 $6 Meditation 158 In the Palace Garden 160 Epitaph in Ballade Form 161 At a Gate by the Way 163 Rhapsody in a Third-class Carriage 165 Freedom 166 Retreat 167 Having Seen Men Killed 168 Nightingale 169 Papillons 170 Truth 171 The Parrot 172 To Those Who played for Safety in Life 174 8 WORDS FOR MUSIC 175 Songs for Puritans 177 Songs for Sensualists 181 Metrical Exercises 183 A FOOL I* THE FORBST • 189 A DREAM IN THE LUXEMBOURG 24I THE EATEN HEART 2J$ 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 9

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