Book: The Tower

• A Prayer For My Son

  BID a strong ghost stand at the head
  That my Michael may sleep sound,

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• All Souls' Night

  Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell
  And may a lesser bell sound through the room;

  100 lines
• Among School Children

  I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning;
  A kind old nun in a white hood replies;

  67 lines, 2 comments
• Two Songs From A Play

  I
  I saw a staring virgin stand

  33 lines
• Meditations In Time Of Civil War

  I
  i{Ancestral Houses}

  223 lines
• A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup

  A crazy man that found a cup,
  When all but dead of thirst,

  10 lines
• Colonus' Praise

  i{Chorus.} Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise
  The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies,

  32 lines
• A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness

  O bid me mount and sail up there
  Amid the cloudy wrack,

  12 lines
• On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac

  YOUR hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
  Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.

  16 lines
• Youth And Age

  MUCH did I rage when young,
  Being by the world oppressed,

  4 lines
• Fragments

  I
  LOCKE sank into a swoon;

  12 lines, 1 comment
• A Man Young And Old: XI. From Oedipus At Colonus

  Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
  Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Leda And The Swan

  A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still
  Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed

  15 lines, 3 comments
• A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring

  We sat under an old thorn-tree
  And talked away the night,

  16 lines
• Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen

  MANY ingenious lovely things are gone
  That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,

  131 lines, 1 comment
• A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid

  A mermaid found a swimming lad,
  Picked him for her own,

  6 lines, 1 comment
• Owen Aherne And His Dancers

  A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
  Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,

  32 lines
• Sailing to Byzantium

  That is no country for old men. The young
  In one another's arms, birds in the trees

  34 lines, 2 comments
• The Fool By The Roadside

  WHEN all works that have
  From cradle run to grave

  11 lines, 1 comment
• A Man Young And Old: I. First Love

  Though nurtured like the sailing moon
  In beauty's murderous brood,

  18 lines
• The New Faces

  IF you, that have grown old, were the first dead,
  Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime

  8 lines, 2 comments
• A Man Young And Old: VI. His Memories

  We should be hidden from their eyes,
  Being but holy shows

  18 lines
• The Three Monuments

  THEY hold their public meetings where
  Our most renowned patriots stand,

  11 lines
• A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity

  Like the moon her kindness is,
  If kindness I may call

  12 lines
• The Tower

  I
  WHAT shall I do with this absurdity -

  217 lines, 3 comments
• A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare

  I have pointed out the yelling pack,
  The hare leap to the wood,

  12 lines
• The Wheel

  THROUGH winter-time we call on spring,
  And through the spring on summer call,

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• A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth

  Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,

  20 lines
• Wisdom

  THE true faith discovered was
  When painted panel, statuary.

  20 lines
• A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old

  I have old women's secrets now
  That had those of the young;

  18 lines

• By me, right now

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