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[[File:poems-conan-doyle-1922-john-murray.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[John Murray]] (1922)]]

''The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle - Collected Edition'' is a volume collecting 3 volumes of poems written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in 1922 by [[John Murray]]. The 3 volumes are: [[Songs of the Road]], [[Songs of Action]] and [[The Guards Came Through and Other Poems]]. As Conan Doyle wrote in his [[#Preface|preface]], 12 new poems and a one-act play ([[The Journey]]) has been added to this edition.

The book has the same dedication than in [[Songs of the Road]] (1911) : "To J. C. D. This-and All. February 1911"

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== Editions ==

* ''The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle'' (21 september 1922, [[John Murray]] [UK])
* ''The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle'' (14 september 1928, [[John Murray]]'s ''Fiction Library'' [UK])

== Foreword ==

If it were not for the hillocks 
You'd think little of the hills; 
The rivers would seem tiny 
If it were not for the rills. 
If you never saw the brushwood 
You would under-rate the trees; 
And so you see the purpose 
Of such little rhymes as these. 

== Preface ==

This volume contains nearly the whole of the three small collections named "Songs of Action," "Songs of the Road," and "The Guards came through." To these are added a number of new pieces : "The Farewell," "Now then, Smith!" "To my Lady," "A Reminiscence of Cricket," "The Bugles of Canada," "Christmas in Trouble," "To Carlo," "To Ronald Ross," "Little Billy," "Take Heart," "Retrospect," and "Comrades." There is also added a short poetical one-act play, "The Journey."

Arthur Conan Doyle. 
March 1922

== Poems ==

* '''Songs of Action'''
** [[The Song of the Bow]]
** [[Cremona]]
** [[The Storming Party]]
** [[The Frontier Line]]
** [[Corporal Dick's Promotion]]
** [[A Forgotten Tale]]
** [[Pennarby Mine]]
** [[A Rover Chanty]]
** [[A Ballad of the Ranks]]
** [[A Lay of the Links]]
** [[The Dying Whip]]
** [[Master]]
** [[H.M.S. "Foudroyant"]]
** [[The Farnshire Cup]]
** [[The Groom's Story]]
** [[With the Chiddingfolds]]
** [[A Hunting Morning]]
** [[The Old Gray Fox|The Old Grey Fox]]
** [['Ware Holes!]]
** [[The Home-Coming of the Eurydice]]
** [[The Inner Room]]
** [[The Irish Colonel]]
** [[The Blind Archer]]
** [[A Parable (poem 1898)|A Parable]]
** [[A Tragedy]]
** [[The Passing]]
** [[The Franklin's Maid]]
** [[The Old Huntsman]]
* '''Songs of the Road'''
** [[A Hymn of Empire]]
** [[Sir Nigel's Song]]
** [[The Arab Steed]]
** [[A Post-Impressionist]]
** [[Empire Builders]]
** [[The Groom's Encore]]
** [[The Bay Horse]]
** [[The Outcasts]]
** [[The End]]
** [[1902-1909]]
** [[The Wanderer]]
** [[Bendy's Sermon]]
** [[Compensation]]
** [[The Banner of Progress]]
** [[Hope]]
** [[Religio Medici]]
** [[Man's Limitation]]
** [[Mind and Matter]]
** [[Darkness]]
** [[A Woman's Love]]
** [[By the North Sea]]
** [[December's Snow]]
** [[Shakespeare's Expostulation]]
** [[The Empire]]
** [[A Voyage]]
** [[The Orphanage]]
** [[Sexagenarius Loquitur]]
** [[Night Voices]]
** [[The Message]]
** [[The Echo]]
** [[Advice to a Young Author]]
** [[The Farewell]]
** [["Now Then, Smith!"]]
** [[To my Lady]]
** [[A Reminiscence of Cricket]]
* '''The Guards Came Through and Other Poems'''
** [[The Guards Came Through]]
** [[Victrix]]
** [[Those Others]]
** [[Haig is Moving]]
** [[The Guns in Sussex]]
** [[Ypres]]
** [[Grousing]]
** [[The Volunteer]]
** [[The Night Patrol]]
** [[The Bugles of Canada]]
** [[The Wreck on Loch McGarry]]
** [[The Bigot]]
** [[The Athabasca Trail]]
** [[Ragtime!]]
** [[Christmas in Trouble]]
** [[To Carlo]]
** [[To Ronald Ross]]
** [[Little Billy]]
** [[Take Heart]]
** [[Retrospect]]
** [[Comrades]]
** [[Lindisfaire]]
** [[A Parable (poem 1919)|A Parable]]
** [[Fate]]
** [[The Journey]]

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