London Pride
by S. Fowler Wright
Fowler Wright Ltd., London
MDCCCCXXVII
1927
London Pride
"London, thou art the flour of Cities all"
WILLIAM DUNBAR
PREFATORY NOTE
This little book is a tribute by living writers to the first city of the Empire.
Not only Londoners have contributed, though most of the offerings are the filial tributes of its own children; other contribtutions come from distant parts of the Empire, and two are from the pens of American visitors.
One, which I felt unable to omit, is a Londoner's tribute to an Anzac soldier. Apart from other considerations, which make its inclusion seemly, it is one of the few good poems that can be directly attributed to the war.
Widely separate as these poems are, both in subjects and in treatment, I hope that they may not be judged unworthy of the City they unite to honour.
S. F.W.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SEVERAL of these poems have appeared in Poetry and the Play during the last three years, and acknowledgments for permission to reprint are also due to the Editor of Time and Tide (for Miss Mary Bell); and to the Editor of The Idler (for Mrs. Hedderwick Browne); the others have not been published previously.
CONTENTS
EDWIN AINSLEY
"The Flying Dutchman"
The Stones of London
W. J. ARKELL
Where Lilac Grows
RUTH M. ARTHUR
Autumn in London
MAURICE BEAUCHAMP
Westminster Abbey
MAY BELBEN
Hammersmith Bridge in Winter Twilight
AUDREY BELL
The Ballad of London
Lancaster Gate; November, 1924
MARY BELL
When I go down through Bishopsgate
MARIE HEDDERWICK BROWNE
A Heilan' Lass in London
HAMILTON COCHRAN
The Apple-Woman
L. M. DUFTY
Christmas Eve
Devonshire Street
Armistice Day
Echoes (1923)
F. H. HAINES
All Hallows Church, Lombard Street
DOROTHY M. HOBBS
An Engine Entering King's Cross Station
DORIS AMY IBBOTSON
Spring in Tanner's Street
ERDA LANG
Clapham Common in Winter
MARGARET LYDEKKER
On a Waterloo Platform
CHARLES G. MORTIMER
Sonnets, I
II
BLANCHE G. H. MUDGE
Marigolds in Bond Street
MARCARET OWEN
The Cockney's Lament
A Dream of London
The Traveller
The Stranger
CATHERINE PENNELL
Spring in the City
EILEEN M. PUXLEY
To London Town
CLYDE ROBERTSON
The Pavement Artist
AGNES D. SCOTT
London Pride
H. BROADBERRY SEAMAN
Near Temple Gardens
E. A. SMAILES
A Winter Sunset London
MARY DOREEN SPENDER
Laurels
Willow-Herb Wharf
Conjuration
STANLEY STOKES
London Twilight
SYLVIA WHYTE
Poetic Justice
LAETITIA WITHALL
Up Bond Street
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