Some Yorkshire Poets
An Anthology Of To-Day 1924-25
Edited by S. Fowler Wright
The Merton Press Ltd.
Abbey House, Westminster. S.W.1.
1924-25
PREFACE
This anthology is one of a series, representative of the renaissance of poetry in the various counties and principal cities of Great Britain, of which POETS OF MERSEYSIDE was issued about twelve months ago, and was described by the Leeds Mercury as 'an Anthology which might serve as a model.' The cheaper edition of this book was out of print within a few months of publication, and the more expensive issue appears likely to be in the same position at an early date.
Then came BIRMINGHAM POETRY, 1923-4, after which I was asked to edit a series of County Anthologies, of which LIVING POETS OF SOMERSET will be published at the same date as this volume, and will be followed by others at short intervals.
Should the public response be sufficiently favourable, it is intended to issue these books annually.
It is not possible that anthologies of this kind should include examples of the work of every writer who may consider - perhaps rightly - that he has a valid claim for consideration; but copyright restrictions and other difficulties have been overcome sufficiently to make them, if not comprehensive, yet fully representative of the contemporary poetry for their respective areas.
Defects there doubtless are, both of choice and exclusion - defects which will, I think, be regarded with leniency, at least by those who have any adequate conception of the labour and correspondence which is inevitable in the preparation of such anthologies, - and which would throw an impossible burden upon the shoulders of any editor, however willing, were it not lightened by the hearty co-operation of those who are interested in the revival of English poetry in all parts of the country, to whom I am not the less grateful because they are too numerous for individual mention.
All the contributors to the present volume are of Yorkshire birth, or have the claim of long residence, though, as Miss Renshaw has written in YORKSHIRE WAYS, - surely destined to be the representative poem of the county it sings so magically -
"Yorkshire hearts are gipsy hearts"
and Mr. Bird in New York, and Mr. Bayldon in Australia may not be the only ones who have left it.
They are all living, except the late Dr. Robert B. Greaves of Sheffield, whose deeply regretted death took place while the book was in preparation.
INDEX.
Bayldon, A. D (Leeds)
Marlowe
Benson, Bernard J. (Sheffield).
A Song of the West Wind
Echoes from the Past
Ecstasy
Bird, J. C. (Sheffield).
Winter Silence
Scene
To a Premiere Dansèuse
Bottomley, T. R. (Brighouse).
Evening View from Macolin
Boyle, Douglas (Scarborough).
Sir Philip Sydney
Brearley, Hilda (Leeds).
Dirge
Brinton, Henry (Halifax).
Moths. To (B.D.)
Brown, Alfred (Bradford).
Wind on the Face
Carter, F. A. (Huddersfield).
From an Idle Woman's Letter
Charlesworth, Lily (Barnsley).
An Autumn Night
Sonnet
Charlesworth, Douglas (Barnsley).
The Ruined Cot
Childe, Wilfrid Rowland (Leeds).
The Angel of Europe
Chant of the Shepherds of Argoz to Our
Lady and the Divine Child
Collier, J. (Sheffield).
"Come, love, one kiss"
To My Mother
Covell, Clarice M. (Leeds).
Covell, Clarice M. (Leeds).
The Organist
Crowther, Mariorie (Sheffield).
Dedication
The Incarnate Christ
Darbyshire, J. R. (Sheffield).
The Gargoyle
A Local Character
Dean, Ethel. (Rotherham)
April Magic
Dinsdale, D. Violet (Leeds).
Spring Come Back (for G.C.)
Hunger
Doney, May (Hebden Bridge).
The Slave
Downhill, W. (Sedbergh).
What's in a Name ?
Dunn, Frederick (Halifax).
Echo de Suvla
Elgee, Frank (York).
Ah can't mak nowt o' Life
Parting
Elgee, Harriet Wragg (York).
Childless
Inasmuch
Ellis, Oliver C. de C. (Sheffield).
Eluded
Moth
Christmas in Spring
Bucolic
Ferro, Rolf (Leeds).
Sonnets in City Square, Leeds
Goodwin, Gwendoline (Sheffield).
Transience (to L. Cranmer Byng)
The Joy of the East
Indian Summer
Absent (to the World's Pioneers)
Goodyear, R. A. H. (Scarborough).
The Lost Music
War in the Meadows
Spring Songs
Along the Whitby Road
Beyond Hayburn Wyke
The Village Carrier
Greaves, Robert B. (Sheffield).
To Sheffield
The Spirit of the Universe
Yorkshire
Harvey, William Fryer (Leeds)
Mark's Good-bye to His Nurse
The Old Buccaneer
Moon Rise
Death and Youth
Hobson, R. Darnley (Beverley).
Exiled
A Debt to Love
The Low Road
Sonnet
Holmes, Marjorie (Bentham).
Deaf
Jenkins. G. G. (Sheffield).
Nile Water
Interlude
Isle o' Dreams
Evening on the Somme, 1916
Lerwill-Cocks, W. (Doncaster).
How you will know
The Rogue in my Eyes
Matthewman, S. (Leeds).
When you are out
To a Lady with a Mandoline
The Lute of Darkness. Poem Dedicatory
Pendlebury, B. J. (Harrogate).
Fountains Abbey
Carmen Apollinis
Insignificance
The Baron's Grace
Petch, Irene (Kirbymoorside).
September
The Cathedral
Raspin, Elsie Harriet (Long Preston).
The Lark and the Listeners
I am the Sun's Great Lover
Larkspurs
Light and Darkness
Roundel
On seeing some Swans on the Sea
Raworth, Esther (Harrogate).
Haunted Waters
Fantasy
Raworth Rhys (Harrogate).
Invocation to Sleep
The Torrent
Renshaw, C A. (Sheffield).
Jeannette
The Ballad of the Unborn
The Eternal Mystery
Songs
Skeat, Bertha M. (Sedbergh).
Overtones (Hebblethwaite Ghyll)
The Music-Maker
Sutcliffe, Edward (Halifax)
The Woodland Path
Thomas, Evan J. (Hebden Bridge)
The Sub-Conscious
My Muse
Songs Unsung
Watson, Amy (Sheffield).
Southwold
The Night Wind
Winder, Dorothy (Scarborough).
The Menin Road
Ypres
Vickridge, Alberta (Bradford).
A Spring Exhibition
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