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POEMS, LETTERS, AND MEMORIES OF PHILIP SIDNEY NAIRN ARRANGED BY E. R. EDDISON Late of Trinity College, Oxford PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION LONDON, 1916 Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF Copyright © E. R. Eddison 1916 Jacket illustration © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2014 E. R. Eddison asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007578078 Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007578085 Version: 2014-12-16 P. S. F. NAIRN IN 1907. [From, a photograph by Martin Jacolette.] CONTENTS Copyright List of Illustrations Preface I. Introduction II. Family, Birth, and School Life
III. Oxford and Stettin
IV. Kelantan and the Federated Malay States
V. Life and Literature
POEMS
Exile
To J. C.
Desiderium
To E. R. E. (on receiving a certain letter)
To Miss M. H.
In the Buchheide
The Dawn of Love
Retrospect
A Fallen Socrates
Reverie
Rejected Verse
Blore’s
To Smudge – my Dog
To my German Class
To Mrs Honey
For Jess
For Miss E. S.
To Phoebus Apollo
For Barbara
For Miss E. Brown
For Miss M. Brown
Advance, Australia!
‘Altogether Piffle’
Why Not?
At Parting
To the Unknown Goddess
To J. M. C.
Off Malacca
Sundown in the Rains
To E. R. E. (on news of his engagement)
Fragment
Trois Ans Après
Hélas
F. M. S. DITTIES:
To my Nearest Neighbour
The Point of View
Mischievous
The Volunteer Dance
‘He slumbered in Carcosa’s stead’
Metamorphosis
Upon the Troublesome Times
The Seats of the Mighty
Day-dreams or Nightmare?
Furious Driving
Still the Everlasting ‘Dreadnought’
Some Quatrains from the Selangor Golf Club
TRANSLATIONS:
Near to my Love
Night
Late Summer
The Asra
Anacreon’s Grave
To my Absent Love
Ultimus Cursus Vitae
Appendix I
Appendix II
Footnotes
Also by E. R. Eddison
About the Publisher
1. P. S. F. Nairn in 1907 2. Five Years Old 3. At the Foot of Wastwater, April 1906 4. At Oxford, on the Cherwell 5. Nairn’s Bungalow at Kota Bharu 6. A Garden Party at the Residency 7. Group on the Tennis Lawn
