England and Yesterday

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 class="faux">“ENGLAND AND YESTERDAY”</h1> <span class="adtitle2">A BOOK OF SHORT POEMS</span><br/> <br/> BY<br/> <span class="author">LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY</span><br/> <h2>LONDON:<br/>SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889.<br/><br/><i>TO HERBERT E. CLARKE.</i></h2> <hr> <h2>I.<br/><small>ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.</small></h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">Holy of England! since my light is short</div> <div class="verse">And faint, O rather by the sun anew</div> <div class="verse">Of timeless passion set my dial true,</div> <div class="verse">That with thy saints and thee I may consort;</div> <div class="verse">And wafted in the cool enshadowed port</div> <div class="verse">Of poets, seem a little sail long due,</div> <div class="verse">And be as one the call of memory drew</div> <div class="verse">Unto the saddle void since Agincourt!</div> <div class="verse">Not now for secular love’s unquiet lease,</div> <div class="verse">Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee erewhile,</div> <div class="verse">Hath broken tryst with transitory things;</div> <div class="verse">But seal with her a marriage and a peace</div> <div class="verse">Eternal, on thine Edward’s altar-isle,</div> <div class="verse">Above the stormless sea of ended kings.</div> </div></div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />