“Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent”
Country Sentiment (1920)
Context: Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent;
Admire, you ladies, read, you boys,
My Country Sentiment.
"A First Review".
Volume 1, Introduction.
The Greek Myths (1955)
Context: Ancient Europe had no gods. The Great Goddess was regarded as immortal, changeless, and omnipotent; and the concept of fatherhood had not been introduced into religious thought. She took lovers, but for pleasure, not to provide her children with a father. Men feared, adored, and obeyed the matriarch; the hearth which she tended in a cave or hut being their earliest social centre, and motherhood their prime mystery.
"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems
"A First Review"
Country Sentiment (1920)
"Hate Not, Fear Not".
Country Sentiment (1920)
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
"Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
Poems
Volume 1, Introduction
The Greek Myths (1955)
"A First Review"
Country Sentiment (1920)