The Works of Sydney Fowler Wright 1874 - 1965

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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