LONDON SONNETS

BY HUMBERT WOLFE Oxford Basil Blackwell, Broad Street, 1920

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DEDICATION.

CONTENTS.

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TO J.

LONDON PSEUDO-SONNETS.

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Some of these verses have appeared in The Saturday Review, The Spectator, The Westminster Gazette, and are republished by the courtesy of the editors of these journals.{9}

THE OLD CLOTHES DEALER.

COVES AT HAMPTON COURT.

ONE MAN RETURNS.

THE BUN-SHOP.

THE FRIED FISH-SHOP.

THE STREETS BEHIND THE TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD.

THE YORKSHIRE GREY.

WARDOUR STREET.

THE SUBURBS.

THE LAST LONDON SONNET.

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OTHER VERSE.

“SOMETIMES WHEN I THINK OF LOVE.”

I.

II.

III.

IV.

OLD.

THE SONG OF THE GAMBUCINOS.

FEBRUARY 14.

PIERROT.

THE DEAD MAN IN THE POOL.

DEAD LOVER.

THE GODS OF THE COPY-BOOK HEADINGS. A REPLY.

WHEELS 1919.

THE WELL.

JUDAS.

THE NIGHT.

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OTHER SONNETS.

THREE SONNETS OF LOVE.

I.

AT NOONTIDE SEEKING.

II.

AN ACCUSATION.

III.

THE TREMBLING BRIM.

THE REPLY.

GOD GAVE US BODIES....

RONSARD AND HELENE.

THE DRIFT OF THE LUTE.

LOVE AND BEAUTY.

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WAR VERSE.

V. D. F. (Ave atque Vale.)

ENGLAND.

THE MOON IN FLANDERS.

THE SOLDIER SPEAKS.

FLOWERS AT HAMPTON COURT.

Printed at The Vincent Works, Oxford.