The church-bells rock and jangle, and there is peace on the earth.Peace and good will and plenty and Christmas games and mirth.O, the gold glints bright on the wind-vane as it shifts above the squire's house,And the water of the bar of Salcombe is muttering about the bows.O, the salt sea tide of Salcombe, it wrinkles into wisps of foam,And the church-bells ring in Salcombe to ring poor sailors home.The belfry rocks as the bells ring, the chimes are merry as a song,They ring home wandering sailors who have been homeless long.THE WORDMy friend, my bonny friend, when we are old,And hand in hand go tottering down the hill,May we be rich in love's refinèd gold,May love's gold coin be current with us still.May love be sweeter for the vanished days,And your most perfect beauty still as dearAs when your troubled singer stood at gazeIn the dear March of a most sacred year.May what we are be all we might have been,And that potential, perfect, O my friend,And may there still be many sheafs to gleanIn our love's acre, comrade, till the end.And may we find, when ended is the page,Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.* * * * *The following pages are advertisements of recent important poetry published by the Macmillan CompanyJOHN MASEFIELD'SThe Daffodil FieldsDecorated boards, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.33"The Daffodil Fields" is a vivid expansion of the wonderful narrative art that John Masefield has employed with such tremendous emphasis in "The Everlasting Mercy" and in "The Story of a Round-House."This poem-story contains the finest poetry Masefield has written and in its vigor and reserve continues to stamp him as the greatest artist of the day."Neither in the design nor in the telling did, or could, 'Enoch Arden' come within miles of the artistic truth of 'The Daffodil Fields.'"--Professor Quiller-Couch of Cambridge."It is tremendously strong."--Current Opinion."Mr. Masefield gives us passages of sheer beauty."--Boston Advertiser.JOHN MASEFIELD'SThe Everlasting Mercy, and The Widow in Bye StreetDecorated boards, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.38"The Everlasting Mercy" was awarded the Edward de Polignac prize of $500 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best imaginative work of the year."John Masefield is the man of the hour, and the man of to-morrow too, in poetry and in the playwriting craft."--JOHN GALSWORTHY."--recreates a wholly new drama of existence."--WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE,N. Y. Times."Mr. Masefield comes like a flash of light across contemporary English poetry, and he trails glory where his imagination reveals the substances of life. The improbable has been accomplished by Mr. Masefield; he has made poetry out of the very material that has refused to yield it for almost a score of years. It has only yielded it with a passion of Keats, and shaped it with the imagination of Coleridge."--Boston Evening Transcript."Originality, force, distinction, and deep knowledge of the human heart."--Chicago Record-Herald."They are truly great pieces."--Kentucky Post."A vigor and sincerity rare in modern English literature."--The Independent."If Mr. Masefield has occasionally appeared to touch a reminiscent chord with George Meredith, it is merely an example of his good taste and the sameness of big themes."--GEORGE MIDDLETON inLa Folletters Magazine.JOHN MASEFIELD'SThe Story of a Round-House, and other Poems"John Masefield has produced the finest literature of the year."--J. W. BARRIE."John Masefield is the most interesting poetic personality of the day."--The Continent."Ah! the story of that rounding the Horn! Never in prose has the sea been so tremendously described."--Chicago Evening Post."Masefield's new book attracts the widest attention from those who in any degree are interested in the quality of present-day literature."--Boston Transcript."A remarkable poem of the sea."--San Francisco Chronicle."Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--Current Literature."A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield's position in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--Everybody's Magazine."Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--N. Y. Sun."There is strength about everything Masefield writes that compels the feeling that he has an inward eye on which he draws to shape new films of old pictures. In these pictures is freshness combined with power, which form the keynotes of his poetry."--N. Y. Globe.FiresBy W. W. GIBSONAuthor of "Daily Bread," "Womenkind," etc.Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 netIn this striking book of verse Mr. Gibson writes of simple, homely folk with touching sympathy. The author's previous book, "Daily Bread," was heralded far and wide as the book of the year in the field of poetry; in "Fires" are contained many of the same characteristics which distinguished it. The story of a girl whose lover is struck dead by a flying bit of stone; of a wife who has unusual patience with her husband's shortcomings; of a flute player; of a shop and a shopkeeper; of a machine and those who feed it--these are the subjects of a number of the separate pieces.BY THE SAME AUTHORDaily BreadIn Three Books 12mo, $1.25 netWomenkind12mo, $1.25 net"There is a man in England who with sufficient plainness and sufficient profoundness is addressing himself to life, and daring to chant his own times and social circumstances, who ought to become known to America. He is bringing a message which might well rouse his day and generation to an understanding of and a sympathy with life's disinherited--the overworked masses.""A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, is Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom Canon Cheyne wrote: 'A new poet of the people has risen up among us--the story of a soul is written as plainly in "Daily Bread" as in "The Divine Comedy" and in "Paradise Lost."'""Mr. Gibson is a genuine singer of his own day, and turns into appealing harmony the world's harshly jarring notes of poverty and pain."--Abridged from an article in "The Outlook."THE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers -- 64-66 Fifth Avenue -- New York*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKTHE STORY OF A ROUND-HOUSE AND OTHER POEMS***
The church-bells rock and jangle, and there is peace on the earth.Peace and good will and plenty and Christmas games and mirth.O, the gold glints bright on the wind-vane as it shifts above the squire's house,And the water of the bar of Salcombe is muttering about the bows.
The church-bells rock and jangle, and there is peace on the earth.
Peace and good will and plenty and Christmas games and mirth.
O, the gold glints bright on the wind-vane as it shifts above the squire's house,
And the water of the bar of Salcombe is muttering about the bows.
O, the salt sea tide of Salcombe, it wrinkles into wisps of foam,And the church-bells ring in Salcombe to ring poor sailors home.The belfry rocks as the bells ring, the chimes are merry as a song,They ring home wandering sailors who have been homeless long.
O, the salt sea tide of Salcombe, it wrinkles into wisps of foam,
And the church-bells ring in Salcombe to ring poor sailors home.
The belfry rocks as the bells ring, the chimes are merry as a song,
They ring home wandering sailors who have been homeless long.
THE WORD
My friend, my bonny friend, when we are old,And hand in hand go tottering down the hill,May we be rich in love's refinèd gold,May love's gold coin be current with us still.
My friend, my bonny friend, when we are old,
And hand in hand go tottering down the hill,
And hand in hand go tottering down the hill,
May we be rich in love's refinèd gold,
May love's gold coin be current with us still.
May love's gold coin be current with us still.
May love be sweeter for the vanished days,And your most perfect beauty still as dearAs when your troubled singer stood at gazeIn the dear March of a most sacred year.
May love be sweeter for the vanished days,
And your most perfect beauty still as dear
And your most perfect beauty still as dear
As when your troubled singer stood at gaze
In the dear March of a most sacred year.
In the dear March of a most sacred year.
May what we are be all we might have been,And that potential, perfect, O my friend,And may there still be many sheafs to gleanIn our love's acre, comrade, till the end.
May what we are be all we might have been,
And that potential, perfect, O my friend,
And that potential, perfect, O my friend,
And may there still be many sheafs to glean
In our love's acre, comrade, till the end.
In our love's acre, comrade, till the end.
And may we find, when ended is the page,Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
And may we find, when ended is the page,
Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
* * * * *
The following pages are advertisements of recent important poetry published by the Macmillan Company
JOHN MASEFIELD'S
The Daffodil Fields
Decorated boards, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.33
"The Daffodil Fields" is a vivid expansion of the wonderful narrative art that John Masefield has employed with such tremendous emphasis in "The Everlasting Mercy" and in "The Story of a Round-House."
This poem-story contains the finest poetry Masefield has written and in its vigor and reserve continues to stamp him as the greatest artist of the day.
"Neither in the design nor in the telling did, or could, 'Enoch Arden' come within miles of the artistic truth of 'The Daffodil Fields.'"--Professor Quiller-Couch of Cambridge.
"It is tremendously strong."--Current Opinion.
"Mr. Masefield gives us passages of sheer beauty."--Boston Advertiser.
JOHN MASEFIELD'S
The Everlasting Mercy, and The Widow in Bye Street
Decorated boards, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.38
"The Everlasting Mercy" was awarded the Edward de Polignac prize of $500 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best imaginative work of the year.
"John Masefield is the man of the hour, and the man of to-morrow too, in poetry and in the playwriting craft."--JOHN GALSWORTHY.
"--recreates a wholly new drama of existence."--WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE,N. Y. Times.
"Mr. Masefield comes like a flash of light across contemporary English poetry, and he trails glory where his imagination reveals the substances of life. The improbable has been accomplished by Mr. Masefield; he has made poetry out of the very material that has refused to yield it for almost a score of years. It has only yielded it with a passion of Keats, and shaped it with the imagination of Coleridge."--Boston Evening Transcript.
"Originality, force, distinction, and deep knowledge of the human heart."--Chicago Record-Herald.
"They are truly great pieces."--Kentucky Post.
"A vigor and sincerity rare in modern English literature."--The Independent.
"If Mr. Masefield has occasionally appeared to touch a reminiscent chord with George Meredith, it is merely an example of his good taste and the sameness of big themes."--GEORGE MIDDLETON inLa Folletters Magazine.
JOHN MASEFIELD'S
The Story of a Round-House, and other Poems
"John Masefield has produced the finest literature of the year."--J. W. BARRIE.
"John Masefield is the most interesting poetic personality of the day."--The Continent.
"Ah! the story of that rounding the Horn! Never in prose has the sea been so tremendously described."--Chicago Evening Post.
"Masefield's new book attracts the widest attention from those who in any degree are interested in the quality of present-day literature."--Boston Transcript.
"A remarkable poem of the sea."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--Current Literature.
"A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield's position in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--Everybody's Magazine.
"Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--N. Y. Sun.
"There is strength about everything Masefield writes that compels the feeling that he has an inward eye on which he draws to shape new films of old pictures. In these pictures is freshness combined with power, which form the keynotes of his poetry."--N. Y. Globe.
Fires
By W. W. GIBSON
Author of "Daily Bread," "Womenkind," etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
In this striking book of verse Mr. Gibson writes of simple, homely folk with touching sympathy. The author's previous book, "Daily Bread," was heralded far and wide as the book of the year in the field of poetry; in "Fires" are contained many of the same characteristics which distinguished it. The story of a girl whose lover is struck dead by a flying bit of stone; of a wife who has unusual patience with her husband's shortcomings; of a flute player; of a shop and a shopkeeper; of a machine and those who feed it--these are the subjects of a number of the separate pieces.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Daily Bread
In Three Books 12mo, $1.25 net
Womenkind
12mo, $1.25 net
"There is a man in England who with sufficient plainness and sufficient profoundness is addressing himself to life, and daring to chant his own times and social circumstances, who ought to become known to America. He is bringing a message which might well rouse his day and generation to an understanding of and a sympathy with life's disinherited--the overworked masses."
"A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, is Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom Canon Cheyne wrote: 'A new poet of the people has risen up among us--the story of a soul is written as plainly in "Daily Bread" as in "The Divine Comedy" and in "Paradise Lost."'"
"Mr. Gibson is a genuine singer of his own day, and turns into appealing harmony the world's harshly jarring notes of poverty and pain."--Abridged from an article in "The Outlook."
THE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers -- 64-66 Fifth Avenue -- New York
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKTHE STORY OF A ROUND-HOUSE AND OTHER POEMS***