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Chapter I

THE FARMER’S BRIDE

The Original Edition of The Farmer’s Bride, consisting of seventeen of the poems included in this volume, was first published in 1916.

THE FARMER’S BRIDE

By

CHARLOTTE MEW

[A new Edition with eleven new Poems]

LONDON

THE POETRY BOOKSHOP

35 DEVONSHIRE STREET, THEOBALD’S ROAD, W.C.

1921

Printed in England at

The Westminster Press, Harrow Road,

London, W.

The Author begs to thank the Editors of The Nation, The Westminster Gazette, The New Weekly, The Englishwoman, The Egoist, The Graphic, The Athenæum, and The Monthly Chapbook for permission to reprint some of the poems in this book.

To ——

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life:

even for ever and ever.

THE CENOTAPH

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Diacritical marks, where missing from the original table of contents, have been added so that the titles listed in the contents exactly match the poem titles from the main text.

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