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Mr. Freeman's landscapes have an individuality which entitles him to his own place as a poet of nature.... The appreciation of his lofty ardours, his desolate landscapes and his strange, though beautiful, rhythms and forms of verse, is not one which springs up instantly in the mind; but once it has arisen it does not diminish.—New Statesman.

I think that whatever limitations our age and our poetry may have, Mr. Freeman's poetry, and much else that is now being written, will find in all succeeding generations readers to whom it will give companionship and comfort.—Mr. J.C. Squire, in Land and Water.

This book must be read steadily through; quotation can reveal little of its scope, its richness.... When a man, in poems that are clearly fragments of autobiography, thus surrenders to the world the life of his spirit, the beauty of what he writes is inseparable from its truth. Truth endures, and a prophet would have a sad foreboding of posterity if he did not believe that of this day's poets Mr. Freeman will not be among the forgotten.—Times Literary Supplement.

This rarefied air is something to which the reader must adjust himself; but he finds the process of adjustment made easy by a peculiar fascination in the atmosphere which Mr. Freeman creates. If it is aloof from ordinary experience, it is by so much the more individual; and in it there are to be found thrills and feelings, an understanding of a particular aspect of nature, which have not hitherto been reported in poetry—Westminster Gazette.

NOTE.

With the exception of two or three poems which have appeared in newspapers, or in an anthology entitled Twelve Poets, the verses in the first part of this volume have not hitherto been printed. The second part contains Memories of Childhood and Other Poems, and the third part retrieves many verses from Presage of Victory (1916), Stone Trees (1916), Fifty Poems (1911) and Twenty Poems (1909). Chronological order has not been carefully observed, or avoided, in the arrangement of the third part, but the earlier pieces will easily be distinguished by those who may wish to distinguish them.

PART I

THE EVENING SKY

BEECHWOOD

THY HILL LEAVE NOT

THE CAVES

I WILL ASK

IN THOSE OLD DAYS

THE ASH

IMAGINATION

NO MORE ADIEU

THE VISIT

TRAVELLING

THE SONG OF THE FOREST

OUT OF THE EAST

PART II

THE WAKERS

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD

THE SHOCK

THE UNLOOSENING

WILD HEART

THE BODY

THE TOSSING MOUNTAINS

THE POND

TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE [A]

FROM WEAR TO THAMES

TIME FROM HIS GRAVE

WILDER MUSIC

GRASSES

FAIR AND BRIEF

NIGHTFALL

THE SLAVES

THE FUGITIVE

THE UNTHRIFT

THE WREN

THE WINDS

THE WANDERER

MERRILL'S GARDEN

THE LIME TREE

DARK CHESTNUT

LONELY AIRS

THE CREEPER

SMOKE

QUEENS

THE RED HOUSE

THE BEAM

LAST HOURS

THE WISH

NOWHERE, EVERYWHERE

TAKE CARE, TAKE CARE

NEARNESS

THE SECOND FLOOD

THE GLASS

BUT MOST THY LIGHT

IN THAT DARK SILENT HOUR

ONCE THERE WAS TIME

SCATTER THE SILVER ASH LIKE SNOW

JUSTIFICATION

I HAVE NEVER LOVED YOU YET

THE PIGEONS

AND THESE FOR YOU

JUDGMENT DAY

LIGHTING THE FIRE

RECOVERY

EYES

FULFILMENT

BRING YOUR BEAUTY

MEMORIAL

THE HUMAN MUSIC

THE CANDLE

OLD FIRES

THE CROWNS

THE BRIGHT RIDER

TO THE HEAVENLY POWER

SNOWS

THE THORN

CHANGE

BEYOND THE BARN

LET HONOUR SPEAK

TALK

THE UNDYING

THE NATIVE COUNTRY

PART III

STONE TREES

IT WAS THE LOVELY MOON

THE HOUNDS

HECTOR

LISTENING

STONES

THE ENEMIES

THE SILVERY ONE

THE FLUTE

STARS

TEN O'CLOCK AND FOUR O'CLOCK

THE YEW

NOVEMBER SKIES

DELIGHT

CHANGE

SLEEPING SEA

THE WEAVER OF MAGIC

THE DARKSOME NIGHTINGALE

UNDER THE LINDEN BRANCHES

STRIFE

FOREBODING

DISCOVERY

MORE THAN SWEET

THE BRIGHTNESS

THE HOLY MOUNTAINS

RAPTURE

MUSIC COMES

THE IDIOT

THE MOUSE

HAPPINESS

COMFORTABLE LIGHT

HALLO!

FEAR

WAKING

THE FALL

STAY

SHADOWS

WALKING AT EVE

THE PHYSICIAN

VISION AND ECHO

REVISITATION

UNPARDONED

SOME HURT THING

THE WAITS

IN THE LANE

THE LAST TIME

YOU THAT WERE

"THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON SEA OR LAND"

AT EVENING'S HUSH

HAPPY DEATH

WISDOM AND A MOTHER

THE THRUSH SINGS

TO MY MOTHER

THE UNUTTERED

FAIR EVE

THE SNARE

O HIDE ME IN THY LOVE

PRAYER TO MY LORD

THE TREE

EARTH TO EARTH

ON A PIECE OF SILVER

THE ESCAPE

WONDER

LAMBOURN TOWN

THE LAMP

WHO IS IT THAT ANSWERS?

WAITING

ABSENCE

SLEEP

YOUR SHADOW

THE FULL TIDE

HANDS

THE NIGHT WATCH

THE HAUNTED SHADOW

ALONE AND COLD

INEVITABLE CHANGE

LONELINESS

I HEARD A VOICE UPON THE WINDOW BEAT

FIRST LOVE

THE CALL

THE SHADE

HAPPY IS ENGLAND NOW

THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES

SWEET ENGLAND

PRESAGE OF VICTORY

THE RETURN

ENGLISH HILLS

HOMECOMING

ENGLAND'S ENEMY

FROM PICCADILLY IN AUGUST

EVENING BEAUTY: BLACKFRIARS

SAILING OF THE GLORY

AT THE DOCK

"THE MEN WHO LOVED THE CAUSE THAT NEVER DIES"