Provocations

The verses in this book cover various occasions and are therefore very contrary to what is commonly called occasional verse. The term is used with a very mutable meaning; or with a meaning that has been greatly distorted and degraded. The occasion should mean opportunity, and in the case of poetry, it should rather mean provocation. This collection contains the following poems: The Great War – My London Garden, 1914 – My Garden, 1918 – Over the Top! – To His Dear Memory – Sorrow – Alas! – A Sacrament – The Loved-shed Tear – Madonna Granduca and Child – A Vision of a Day that is Past – Bitterness Casteth out Love – The Hour of Happiness – Thoughts – The Things Unsaid are the Things that Count! – The Song of the Long Ago – The Sinner's Dreaming – Woman – Christmas – February – Oh! Tis May – To the Wind – The Grey Wind – Poeta Nascitur – Queen Elizabeth – The Death of Queen Elizabeth – The Plea of the Antarctic – The Stranger in London – The Transvaal in June – Johannesburg – In the Land of the Silences.