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A Father of Women and Other Poems



Description A Father of Women and Other Poems


Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's converted to Roman Catholicism and many of the poems in this volume, published just five years before her death, reflect religious themes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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A Father of WomenLength of Days: To the Early Dead in BattleNurse Edith CavellSummer in England, 1914To Tintoretto in VeniceA Thrush Before DawnThe Two Shakespeare TercentenariesTo O, of her Dark EyesThe TreasureA Wind of Clear Weather in EnglandIn SleepThe Divine PrivilegeFree WillThe Two QuestionsThe Lords PrayerEaster Night

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