This is the first book issued by The Beaumont Press
20 copies have been printed on Japanese vellum
signed by the author and numbered 1 to 20 and
250 copies on hand-made paper numbered 21 to 270
This is No. 232
TIDES
A BOOK OF POEMS BY
JOHN DRINKWATER
DEDICATION
TO GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON
Because the darling chivalries,
That light your battle-line, belong
To music’s heart no less than these,
I bring you my campaigns of song.
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| DEDICATION | 5 |
| A MAN’S DAUGHTER | |
| There is an old woman who looks each night | 9 |
| VENUS IN ARDEN | |
| Now Love, her mantle thrown, | 11 |
| COTSWOLD LOVE | |
| Blue skies are over Cotswold | 12 |
| THE MIDLANDS | |
| Black in the summer night my Cotswold hill | 13 |
| MAY GARDEN | |
| A shower of green gems on my apple tree | 15 |
| PLOUGH | |
| The snows are come in early state, | 16 |
| POLITICS | |
| You say a thousand things, | 17 |
| BIRMINGHAM—1916 | |
| Once Athens worked and went to see the play, | 19 |
| INSCRIPTION FOR A WAR MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN | |
| They nothing feared whose names I celebrate. | 20 |