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"Songs of Love and Empire" is a 1898 collection of poetry by E. Nesbit. Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) was an English poet and author. She is perhaps best remembered for her children's literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general. This wonderful collection of her best poetry will appeal to fans of her work and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf. The poems include: “To The Queen of England”, “After Sixty Years”, “Trafalgar Day”, “A Song of Trafalgar”, “Waterloo Day”, “A Song of Peace and Honour”, “The Ballad of the White Lady”, “The Ghost Bereft”, “The Vain Spell”, “The Adventurer”, “In The Enchanted Tower”, “Faith”, “Prelude”, “At the Sound of the Drum”, “The Goose-Girl”, and more. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	17 juin 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528787659
Langue	English

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SONGS OF LOVE AND EMPIRE
By
E. NESBIT
AUTHOR OF Lays And Legends , A Pomander Of Verse , Ect

First published in 1898

This edition published by Read Books Ltd. Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

“ After Sixty Years ” appeared on June 22, 1897, in the Daily News; “ To the Queen of England ” and many other verses in the Pall Mall Gazette; “ A Song of Peace and Honour ” and “ A Song of Trafalgar ” in the Daily Chronicle, and certain other verses in the Athenæum. To the Editors of these papers my thanks are due.

TO HUBERT BLAND
To you the harvest of my toil has come, Beause of all that lies its sheaves between; You taught me first what Love and Empire mean, And to your hands I bring my harvest home.

Contents
E. Nesbit
I
TO THE QUEE N OF ENGLAND
AFTER SIXTY YEARS
T RAFALGAR DAY
A SONG OF TRAFALGAR
WATERLOO DAY
A SONG OF PEAC E AND HONOUR
II
THE BALLAD OF TH E WHITE LADY
THE GHOST BEREFT
TH E VAIN SPELL
TH E ADVENTURER
IN THE ENC HANTED TOWER
FAITH
THE REFUSAL
PRELUDE
AT THE SOUND OF THE DRUM
TH E GOOSE-GIRL
THE PEDLAR
THE GU ARDIAN ANGEL
III
“SHEPHERDS ALL AND M AIDENS FAIR”
A PORTRAIT
THE OFFERING
ENTREATY
THE FOREST POOL
DISCRETION
SPRING SONG
TOO LATE
BY FAITH WITH THANKSGIVING
THE APPEAL
AUTUMN SONG
THE LAST ACT
FA UTE DE MIEUX
SONG OF LONG AGO
IN ECLIPSE
SPEC IAL PLEADING
“LOVE WE LL THE HOUR”
BETRAYED
THE HEAR T OF SADNESS
THE HEART OF JOY
THE HE ART OF GRIEF
REQUIEM
TEINT NEUTRE
OUT OF HOPE
HAUNTED
A DIRGE
IV
EVENING SONG
“THIS DESIRA BLE MANSION”
EBB-TIDE
ON THE DOWNS
NEW COLLEGE GAR DENS, OXFORD
TO A TULIP-BULB
FEBRUARY
THE PROMI SE OF SPRING
MEDWAY SONG
CHAI NS INVISIBLE
AT EVENING TIME THERE SH ALL BE LIGHT
MAIDENHOOD
V
THE MONK
THE C ROWN OF LIFE
MAGNIFICAT
EV ENING PRAYER
CH RISTMAS HYMN
ABSOLUTION

E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey in 1858. Her family moved around constantly during her youth, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France, Spain and Germany, before settling for three years in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired her well-known novel, The Railway Children. In 1880, Nesbit married Hubert Bland, and her writing talents – which had been in evidence during her teens – were quickly needed to bring in e xtra money.
Over the course of her life, Nesbit would go on to publish approximately 40 books for children, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. Among her best-known works are The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898), The Wouldbegoods (1899) and The Railway Children (1906). Nesbit is regarded by many critics as the first truly 'modern' children's writer, in that she replaced the fantastical worlds utilised by authors such as Lewis Carroll with real-life settings marked by the occasional intrusion of magic. In this, Nesbit is seen as a precursor to writers such as J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis. Nesbit was also a lifelong socialist; in 1884 she was among the founding members of the influential Fabian Society. For much of her adult life she was an active lecturer and prolific writer on socialism.
Having suffered from lung cancer for some years, Nesbit died in 1924 at New Romney, Ke nt, aged 65.

I
TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND
[June 22, 1897]
Come forth! the world’s aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, This is the crown of all your golden hours, More than all other hours august and fair; This did the years prepare, A triumph for our Lady and our Queen, More rich than any king in any land hath seen.
Clothed are your streets with scarlet, gold, and blue, Flowers under foot and banners over head, And while your people’s voice storms Heaven for you About your way are voiceless blessings shed, And over you are spread Wide wings of love, free love, tamed to your hand, Love that gold cannot buy, nor Majesty command.
Not these mere visible millions only, share Your triumph—here all English hearts beat high, Nations far off your royal colours wear, And swell with unheard voice this loyal cry That strikes the English sky: A cloud of unseen witnesses is here To testify how great is England’s Queen, and dear.
Fro m out the grey-veiled past, long years away, Come visionary faces, vision-led, And splendid shapes that are not of our day, The spirits of the mute and mighty dead, To see how Time has sped The fortunes of their England, and behold How much more great she is than in the days of old.
The world can see them not; but you can see— You the inheritor of all the past Wherein the dead, in noble heraldry, Blazoned the shield of England, and forecast The charge it bears at last— More splendid than the azure and the or Of the French lilies lost—long lost and sorrowed for.
Here b e the weaponed men, the English folk, Who in long ships across the swan’s bathfared, In whose rude tongue the voice of Freedom spoke, In whose rough hands the sword was bright and bared— The men who did and dared, And to their sons bequeathed the fighting blood That drives to Victory and will not be withstood.
Here, in your ordered festival, O Queen, Mixed with the crowd and all unseen of these, On their long swords the wild Norse rovers lean And watch the progress of your pageantries, And on this young June breeze Float the bright pennons of the Cressy spears— Shine shadowy shafts that fell, as snow falls, at Poitiers.
Here flut ter phantom flags that once flew free Above the travail of the tournament; Here gleam old swords, once wet for Liberty; Old blood-stiff banners, worn with war and rent, Are with your fresh flowers blent, And by your crown, where love and fame consort, Shines the unvanquished cloven crown of Agincourt.
Upon your river where, by day and night, Your world-adventuring ships come home again, Glide ghostly galleons, manned by men of might Who plucked the wings and singed the beard of Spain; The men who, not in

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