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Soldier, Soldier
Soldier, Soldier "Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don't you march with my true love?" "We're fresh from off the ship an' 'e's maybe give the slip, An' you'd best go loo…
In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen FIVE-AND-TWENTY years have gone Since old William pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth In the grey stone tomb he ma…
The Song of the English
The Song of the English Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) For the Lord our God Most High He hath made the deep a…
Written Before Re-Reading King Lear
Written Before Re-Reading King Lear O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day, Shut up thine olden pa…
Hymn To Apollo
Hymn To Apollo GOD of the golden bow, And of the golden lyre, And of the golden hair, And of the golden fire, Charioteer Of the patient year, Where---where slept thine ire,…
Why Was Cupid a Boy
Why Was Cupid a Boy Why was Cupid a boy, And why a boy was he? He should have been a girl, For aught that I can see. For he shoots with his bow, And the girl shoots with her eye…
Blame Aphrodite
Blame Aphrodite It's no use Mother dear, I can't finish my weaving You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy Sappho tr. Barnard
OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)
OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire) Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine ar…
When, Like a Running Grave
When, Like a Running Grave When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked…
A Draught Of Sunshine
A Draught Of Sunshine Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port, Away with old Hock and madeira, Too earthly ye are for my sport; There's a beverage brighter and clearer. Instead of a p…
Three Things to Remember
Three Things to Remember A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a rage. A skylark wounded on the wing Doth make a cherub cease to sing. He who shall hurt the little wre…
Lost
Lost You left me with the autumn time; When the winter stripped the forest bare, Then dressed it in his spotless rime; When frosts were lurking in the air You left me here and…
The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes
The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes Hands cling to hands and eyes linger on eyes: thus begins the record of our hearts. It is the moonlit night of March; the sweet smell of…
Afternoon Of Circus And Citadel
Afternoon Of Circus And Citadel In Brest, before the Fire-Hoops burning, In the Tent, where Tigers sprang, there I heard you, Finite, singing, there I saw you, Mandelstam. The…
In Cabin'd Ships At Sea
In Cabin'd Ships At Sea IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves--the large imperious waves--In such,…
Otho The Great - Act IV
Otho The Great - Act IV SCENE I. AURANTHE'S Apartment. AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered. Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardy We are cag'd in; you need not pester that…
Alf’s Tenth Bit
Alf’s Tenth Bit WIND Scarce and thin, scarce and thin The government's excuse, Never at all will they do Aught of the slightest use. Over the dying half-wits blow, Over the em…
The Only Son
The Only Son She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew For she heard a whimper under the sill and a great grey paw came through. The fresh flame comforted th…
Foes
Foes Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe. I saw a prize, "Run," cried my f…
Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending?
Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twas best to take it to the g…
The rainy Pleiads wester
The rainy Pleiads wester The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads wester, And seek beyond the sea T…
Worthy The Name of Sir Knight
Worthy The Name of Sir Knight I Sir Knight of the world's oldest order, Sir Knight of the Army of God, You have crossed the strange mystical border, The ground floor of truth…
The Voice
The Voice Atoms as old as stars, Mutation on mutation, Millions and millions of cells Dividing yet still the same, From air and changing earth, From ancient Eastern rivers, From…
Russia to the Pacifists
Russia to the Pacifists God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this way! Armies dead and Cities dea…