Book: The Collected Poems

• Second Best

  Here in the dark, O heart;
  Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,

  39 lines
• The Song Of The Beasts

  Come away!  Come away!
  Ye are sober and dull through the common day,

  32 lines
• Failure

  Because God put His adamantine fate
  Between my sullen heart and its desire,

  14 lines
• Wagner

  Creeps in half wanton, half asleep,
  One with a fat wide hairless face.

  15 lines
• Ante Aram

  Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,
  Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,

  19 lines
• The Way That Lovers Use

  The way that lovers use is this;
  They bow, catch hands, with never a word,

  12 lines
• The Wayfarers

  Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place
  Made fair by one another for a while.

  14 lines
• Mutability

  They say there's a high windless world and strange,
  Out of the wash of days and temporal tide,

  14 lines
• The Beginning

  Some day I shall rise and leave my friends
  And seek you again through the world's far ends,

  20 lines
• Desertion

  So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone,
  And the way was laid so certainly, that, when I'd gone,

  20 lines
• Day That I Have Loved

  Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
  And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.

  30 lines
• Waikiki

  Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree
  Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes

  14 lines
• Success

  I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
  If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,

  14 lines
• Home

  I came back late and tired last night
  Into my little room,

  24 lines, 3 comments
• Dust

  When the white flame in us is gone,
  And we that lost the world's delight

  44 lines, 8 comments
• Dining-Room Tea

  When you were there, and you, and you,
  Happiness crowned the night; I too,

  74 lines, 1 comment
• Mummia

  As those of old drank mummia
  To fire their limbs of lead,

  44 lines
• Retrospect

  In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;

  40 lines, 2 comments
• The Fish

  In a cool curving world he lies
  And ripples with dark ecstasies.

  77 lines
• There's Wisdom In Women

  "Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said,
  "But love goes lightly over." I bowed her foolish head,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body

  How can we find? how can we rest? how can
  We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man?

  30 lines
• Clouds

  Down the blue night the unending columns press
  In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,

  14 lines
• Flight

  Voices out of the shade that cried,
  And long noon in the hot calm places,

  41 lines
• Unfortunate

  Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap
  That's tossed down dusty pavements by the wind;

  14 lines
• The One Before The Last

  I dreamt I was in love again
  With the One Before the Last,

  34 lines
• Song

  All suddenly the wind comes soft,
  And Spring is here again;

  14 lines
• The Jolly Company

  The stars, a jolly company,
  I envied, straying late and lonely;

  18 lines
• Mary And Gabriel

  Young Mary, loitering once her garden way,
  Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day,

  62 lines
• The Life Beyond

  He wakes, who never thought to wake again,
  Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Day And Night

  Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng;
  And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise,

  15 lines
• Dead Men's Love

  There was a damned successful Poet;
  There was a Woman like the Sun.

  25 lines, 1 comment
• The Treasure

  When colour goes home into the eyes,
  And lights that shine are shut again

  14 lines
• Town And Country

  Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side
  Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall.

  38 lines
• The Great Lover

  I have been so great a lover: filled my days
  So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise,

  76 lines
• Paralysis

  For moveless limbs no pity I crave,
  That never were swift! Still all I prize,

  26 lines
• Doubts

  When she sleeps, her soul, I know,
  Goes a wanderer on the air,

  18 lines
• Menelaus And Helen

  Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke
  To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate

  33 lines
• One Day

  Today I have been happy. All the day
  I held the memory of you, and wove

  14 lines
• Libido

  How should I know? The enormous wheels of will
  Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet.

  14 lines
• Hauntings

  In the grey tumult of these after years
  Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part;

  14 lines
• Jealousy

  When I see you, who were so wise and cool,
  Gazing with silly sickness on that fool

  37 lines
• The Vision Of The Archangels

  Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world,
  Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky,

  14 lines
• Blue Evening

  My restless blood now lies a-quiver,
  Knowing that always, exquisitely,

  33 lines
• Love

  Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
  Where that comes in that shall not go again;

  15 lines, 5 comments
• In Examination

  Lo! from quiet skies
  In through the window my Lord the Sun!

  26 lines
• The Chilterns

  Your hands, my dear, adorable,
  Your lips of tenderness

  40 lines
• Finding

  From the candles and dumb shadows,
  And the house where love had died,

  42 lines
• The Night Journey

  Hands and lit faces eddy to a line;
  The dazed last minutes click; the clamour dies.

  28 lines
• The Voice

  Safe in the magic of my woods
  I lay, and watched the dying light.

  37 lines, 1 comment
• Beauty and Beauty

  When Beauty and Beauty meet
  All naked, fair to fair,

  16 lines, 2 comments
• The Goddess In The Wood

  In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood,
  Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one

  14 lines
• Seaside

  Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band,
  The crowd's good laughter, the loved eyes of men,

  15 lines
• A Channel Passage

  The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
  My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Kindliness

  When love has changed to kindliness --
  Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press

  36 lines, 1 comment
• Victory

  All night the ways of Heaven were desolate,
  Long roads across a gleaming empty sky.

  14 lines
• The Hill

  Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
  Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  15 lines

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