THE VEIL
and other
POEMS

Seven of the poems included in this collection werewritten for Drawings by Miss Pamela Bianco,and were first published by Mr. Heinemann in avolume entitled Flora. The author's thanks aredue to Mr. Sydney Pawling for permission toreprint these poems; to Mr. Cyril Beaumont forthe use of 'Tidings' from a Play for Children,entitled Crossings; and, for permission to includeseveral other poems, to the Editors of the LondonMercury, the New Republic, the Spectator, theNation, the Century Magazine, the CambridgeMagazine, the Literary Review, the Sphere, theNew Statesman, the Bookman's Journal, theBroom, the Outlook, the Athenæum, and theWestminster Gazette.