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  • Everyone Sang
    Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
    And I was filled with such delight
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Aftermath
    Have you forgotten yet?...
    For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dug-out
    Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
    And one arm bent across your sullen, cold,
    7 lines
  • Night On The Convoy
    (ALEXANDRIA-MARSEILLES)
    26 lines
  • The Poet As Hero
    You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented,
    Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why
    15 lines
  • Idyll
    In the grey summer garden I shall find you
    With day-break and the morning hills behind you.
    12 lines
  • Ancient History
    Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain,
    Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees;
    14 lines
  • Memorial Tablet
    Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight,
    (Under Lord Derby’s Scheme). I died in hell—
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • I Stood With The Dead
    I Stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still:
    When dawn was grey I stood with the Dead.
    13 lines
  • Devotion To Duty
    I was near the King that day. I saw him snatch 
    And briskly scan the G.H.Q. dispatch. 
    13 lines
  • Reconciliation
    When you are standing at your hero’s grave,
    Or near some homeless village where he died,
    8 lines
  • Middle-Ages
    I heard a clash, and a cry,
    And a horseman fleeing the wood.
    17 lines
  • Battalion-Relief
    ‘FALL in! Now get a move on.’ (Curse the rain.)
    We splash away along the straggling village,
    23 lines
  • Limitations
    If you could crowd them into forty lines!
    Yes; you can do it, once you get a start;
    46 lines
  • Wraiths
    They know not the green leaves;
    In whose earth-haunting dream
    12 lines
  • Falling Asleep
    Voices moving about in the quiet house:
    Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors:
    26 lines
  • What The Captain Said At The Point-To-Point
    I’ve had a good bump round; my little horse 
    Refused the brook first time, 
    13 lines
  • Concert Party
    They are gathering round....
    Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand,
    24 lines
  • Vision
    I love all things that pass: their briefness is
    Music that fades on transient silences.
    8 lines
  • Miracles
    I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming
    Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after;
    13 lines
  • To Leonide Massine In ‘Cleopatra’
    O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour, 
    Leaping along the verge of death and night, 
    13 lines
  • Memory
    When I was young my heart and head were light,
    And I was gay and feckless as a colt
    16 lines
  • To A Very Wise Man
    Fires in the dark you build; tall quivering flames 
    In the huge midnight forest of the unknown. 
    31 lines
  • Lovers
    You were glad to-night: and now you’ve gone away.
    Flushed in the dark, you put your dreams to bed;
    9 lines
  • To A Childless Woman
    You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do… 
    I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. 
    27 lines
  • The Imperfect Lover
    I never asked you to be perfect—did I?—
    Though often I’ve called you sweet, in the invasion
    35 lines
  • Slumber-Song
    Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed
    A paradise of dimness. You shall feel
    14 lines
  • Fancy Dress
    Some Brave, awake in you to-night,
    Knocked at your heart: an eagle’s flight
    12 lines
  • Prelude To An Unwritten Masterpiece
    You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; 
    Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; 
    32 lines
  • Elegy
    Your dextrous wit will haunt us long
    Wounding our grief with yesterday.
    14 lines
  • Picture-Show
    And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
    That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
    11 lines
  • The Dark House
    Dusk in the rain-soaked garden,
    And dark the house within.
    17 lines
  • Parted
    Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone
    And drifting roar of the town’s undertone;
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Butterflies
    Frail Travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers;
    O living flowers against the heedless blue
    14 lines, 1 comment
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