02399cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000450012624500140017126400510018530000470023633600260028333700260030933800360033550000310037150801670040252012350056953400650180465300350186965300350190485600600193985600430199999900190204277613UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20261918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a20001162  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aWallace, Kathleen Montgomery,d1890-195810aLost city 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-04  achenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  aLost city by Kathleen Montgomery Wallace is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century during the World War I era. The book evokes the landscape and spirit of Cambridge and the fens while mourning a beloved lost to war. Its likely topic is the intersection of place, memory, and bereavement, blending pastoral affection with elegy.

The poems move from tender portraits of Cambridgeshire’s gentle fields, rivers, courts, and college spires to an intimate grief for one who “lies somewhere in France.” Classical echoes—Styx, Lethe, Arcadia—frame a vow to remember rather than forget. Seasons and city scenes become touchstones: chestnuts in blossom, rooks at dusk, tea by the river, a lamp-lit window now dark. Memory haunts “old roads,” prompting a wish for “new roads” free from ghostly joy, even as love is claimed as unaging and unbroken by death. Home-front moments—an interval at the theatre, winds over London roofs—collide with headlines of losses and the ache of absence. The sequence closes with a fierce tenderness: the world may be rebuilt from wartime soil, but not the carefree, purposeless hours once lived under Cambridge skies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cCambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1918  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry  aEnglish poetry -- 20th century4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnp4l3&seq=740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77613  c118333d118333