"Tides: A Book of Poems" by John Drinkwater John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist who became incredibly popular among the masses. This text collects some of his most beloved poems. A Man's Daughter, The Midlands, Plough, Treason, May Garden, On Reading the Ms. of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals, and Reverie are just some of the poems that have been carefully selected for this collection.