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An Immorality
An Immorality Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having. Though I have been in many a land, There is naught else in living. And I would rather have my sw…
My Songs
My Songs My songs like wounded birds, faIl At thy feet, O darling. Pick up all Those bleeding birds in your breast Tenderly and let them meet their eternal rest At thy boso…
My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess FERRARA. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and t…
What Had He Done?
What Had He Done? I saw the farmer, when the day was done, And the proud sun had sought his crimson bed, And the mild stars came forward one by one- I saw the sturdy farmer, an…
Bright Be The Place Of Thy Soul!
Bright Be The Place Of Thy Soul! Bright be the place of thy soul! No lovelier spirit than thine E'er burst from its mortal control In the orbs of the blessed to shine. On eart…
A Waif
A Waif My soul is like a poor caged bird to-night, Beating its wings against the prison bars, Longing to reach the outer world of light, And, all untrammelled, soar among the…
If Death Is Kind
If Death Is Kind Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe…
Lines: Written In 'Letters Of An Italian Nun And An English Gentleman'
Lines: Written In 'Letters Of An Italian Nun And An English Gentleman' 'Away, away, your fleeting arts May now betray some simpler hearts; And you will smile at their believing…
Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd, and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounde…
Fill The Goblet Again: A Song
Fill The Goblet Again: A Song Fill the goblet again! for I never before Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core; Let us drink!who would not?since, through life's…
Safe And Sound
Safe And Sound My name is Nunty Cormorant And my finance is sound, I lend you Englishmen hot air At one and three the pound. I lend you Englishmen hot air And I get all the be…
The Lowestoft Boat
The Lowestoft Boat East Coast Patrols of the War, - In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But she has gone a-rovin', a-…
To the Muses
To the Muses Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun, that now From ancient melody have ceas'd; Whether in Heav'n ye wander fair, Or…
King And No King
King And No King WOULD it were anything but merely voice!' The No King cried who after that was King, Because he had not heard of anything That balanced with a word is more tha…
Westward on the High-Hilled Plains
Westward on the High-Hilled Plains Westward on the high-hilled plains Where for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veins Frets the changeless blood of man. Now that…
To The Earl Of Clare
To The Earl Of Clare 'Tu semper amoris Sisd memor, etcari comitis ne abscedat imago'~Val Flac Friend of my youth! when young we roved, Like striplings mutually beloved, With f…
Quies
Quies This is another of our ancient loves. Pass and be silent, Rullus, for the day Hath lacked a something since this lady passed; Hath lacked a something. 'Twas but marginal.
Blue Roses
Blue Roses Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through, Seeking…
Marriage Morning
Marriage Morning Light, so low upon earth, You send a flash to the sun. Here is the golden close of love, All my wooing is done. Oh, the woods and the meadows, Woods where we h…
The Ox tamer
The Ox tamer IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of Oxen: There they bring him the…
The Ballad Of The King's Mercy
The Ballad Of The King's Mercy Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace is manifold; He has taken toll of the Nor…
Pain
Pain Waves are the sea's white daughters, And raindrops the children of rain, But why for my shimmering body Have I a mother like Pain? Night is the mother of stars, And wind th…
Gehazi
Gehazi Whence comest thou, Gehazi, So reverend to behold, In scarlet and in ermines And chain of England's gold?" "From following after Naaman To tell him all is well, Whereby…
Monumentum Aere, Etc.
Monumentum Aere, Etc. You say that I take a good deal upon myself; That I strut in the robes of assumption. In a few years no one will remember the buffo, No one will remember…