Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Wikipedia

Chimes

Brief on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour. Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—oh, hark!— A fleet of bells set sails, And go to the dark. Sudden the cold airs swing: Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies...

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16 November

The Modern Poet

A Song of Derivations I come from nothing; but from where Come the undying thoughts I bear? Down, through long links of death and birth, From the past poets of the earth. My immortality is there. I am like the blossom of an hour. But long, long vanished sun and shower Awoke my...

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16 August

Maternity

One wept whose only child was dead New-born, ten years ago. “Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said. She answered, “Even so. “Ten years ago was born in pain A child not now forlorn. But oh, ten years ago, in vain A mother, a mother was born.” Alice Meynell...

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05 June