Published by Blackwell's 60pp
edited by T. W. E. [T. W. Earp], D. L. S. [Dorothy L. Sayers] and S. S. [identity unknown]
no preface

"S. S." is probably not Siegfried Sassoon, who was then a young Fleet Street literary editor: but it is hard to think of anybody else. A letter, C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (2 June 1919), mentions that "the extreme literary set at Balliol and Exeter [Colleges], the writers of 'vers libre' etc., who run the yearly Book of Oxford Poetry had got the book [i.e. of Lewis's own poems] and... on Wednesday I am to meet at Hartman's rooms a man called Childe." It is hard to think of anyone less likely given to vers libre than Wilfred Rowland Childe, but interesting that Childe seems still to have been involved in editing, if peripherally: perhaps S. S. refers to him? Lewis evidently failed the interview: none of his poems were included, then or ever.

Contents

H. M. Andrews: Song;

T. H. W. Armstrong: Heritage; Watching; Loneliness;

P. Bloomfield: Twilight;

Vera M. Brittain: To a V. C.;

H. T. Burt: From their Dust; Pilot and Clouds;

F. W. Butler-Thwing: The Tramp-Ship;

Eugene Parker Chase, as E. P. Chase: Seven Mists; "I am clothed with furtive light";

Wilfred Rowland Childe, as W. R. Childe: Les Hallucinés;

E. A. C. Clarke: Flowers;

L. M. Cooper: Lines for a Flyleaf of Herodotus; Crusoe was a Vagabond;

Eric Dickinson: The Garden;

B. Edwards: The Man Who Has Forgotten Time; In a Canoe (Oxford);

Ralph W. W. Fox: Love Weeping Among the Crosses; On Hearing that the Names Carved on an Old School Table are to be Removed; The Envious Poets;

J. B. S. Haldane: Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Alessa;

C. R. S. Harris: Sonnet;

Bertram Higgins, as B. Higgins: Gallipoli: An Epitaph; Eventide;

H. J. Hope: The Patrol; The Monk's Fancy; An Alpine Picture;

G. H. Johnstone, as G. H. Johnston: Oxford in May;

C. H. B. Kitchin: Somme Film, 1916; Eschatological Sonnet; Epilogue; "Ruler of infinite austerity";

John Langdon-Davies: Quits!;

P. H. B. Lyon: The Secret Playroom (Graudenz, 1918); The Song of Strength; The Deserted Garden;

G. A. Mostyn: Les Misérables;

A. S. Mott: Umbra;

K. Mounsey: To a Little House in Oxford;

R. M. S. Pasley: The Diver;

V. de S. Pinto: Station; Swans;

Hilda Reid, as H. S. Reid: A Dream;

Elizabeth Rendall, as E. Rendall: Epitaph (For Julia);

Dorothy L. Sayers, as D. L. Sayers: For Phaon (With "That Eternitie Promised by Our Ever-Living Poet"); Sympathy; Vials Full of Odours;

W. Force Stead: The Voice in the Night (Songs from a Lyrical Drama, "The Burden of Babylon");

L. A. G. Strong: At Punnet's Town; Dallington; Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo;

D. E. A. Wallace: Impromptu in Marsh; In New College Cloisters; The Beggar-Maiden;

J. L. Wing: Louis Onze;