Poems
Cambridge University Press, 10/2/2014
EAN 9781107432949, ISBN10: 1107432944
Paperback, 96 pages, 21 x 14.8 x 0.6 cm
Language: English
Alec de Candole was a poet of WWI who was killed in action on the night of September 3, 1918 at the age of 21. This book, first published in 1920, contains a selection of 45 of his shorter poems, beginning with poems he wrote at school and concluding with a poem written the day before his death. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English literature or wartime poetry.
1. 'Not once, but often'
2. 'O sleep, sweet sleep'
3. Time
4. 'O God, for truth'
5. In memoriam
6. 'The old, the bitter, everlasting why'
7. Avalon
8. 'I have not lived in vain'
9. Weariness
10. 'The truth of God is known'
11. War
12. Sunset
13. Friendship
14. 'The soil of the land is holy'
15. Nightfall
16. 'As one that stands'
17. Eheu fugaces
18. 'The sunset clouds'
19. 'The wind that blustered'
20. Landabunt alii
21. 'Changeful with glow'
22. 'For them, the bitterness of death'
23. 'In a rough barn we knelt'
24. On a picture in Rome
25. 'The breath of God'
26. On a sonnet of Rupert Brooke
27. ÃŽÂn oá»·k hn ằzioc o kocmoc
28. In memoriam (J. N. E.)
29. Elegy
30. Christmas, 1917
31. Salisbury Cathedral
32. England (two sonnets)
33. Heredity
34. 'Here's to the glory of life'
35. The poets
36. 'We gaze upon the apple-flower'
37. The burial of Arthur
38. Proficiscenti (two sonnets)
39. Lincoln Minster
40. Uti conviva satur
41. In cruce regnans
42. 'As one who wanders'
43. 'And if a bullet'
44. 'Hast thou beheld a night'
45. 'When the last long trek is over'.