A Father of Women - and other poems

The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Father of Women, by Alice Meynell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Father of Women and other poems Author: Alice Meynell Release Date: December 13, 2009 [eBook #30669] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FATHER OF WOMEN*** Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org A FATHER OF WOMEN and other poems by Alice Meynell BURNS & OATES Ltd 28 Orchard Street London W 1917 p. 4To V. L. p. 5THE CONTENTS A Father of Women Page 7 Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle 9 Nurse Edith Cavell 11 Summer in England, 1914 12 To Tintoretto in Venice 14 A Thrush Before Dawn 16 The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries 18 To O—, of her Dark Eyes 19 The Treasure 20 A Wind of Clear Weather in England 22 In Sleep 23 The Divine Privilege 24 Free Will 26 The Two Questions 27 The Lord’s Prayer 29 Easter Night 30 p. 7A FATHER OF WOMEN Ad Sororem E. B. “Thy father was transfused into thy blood.” Dryden: Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew. Our father works in us, The daughters of his manhood. Not undone Is he, not wasted, though transmuted thus, And though he left no son.