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  • A Song of Sherwood
    Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake?
    Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake,
    52 lines, 2 comments
  • The Matin-song of Friar Tuck
    I.
    If souls could sing to heaven's high King
    42 lines
  • The Barrel-Organ
    There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street
    In the City as the sun sinks low;
    136 lines
  • Shakespeare's Kingdom
    When Shakespeare came to London
    He met no shouting throngs;
    20 lines
  • Resurrection
    Once more I hear the everlasting sea
    Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant
    50 lines
  • To The R. A. F.
    Never since English ships went out
    To singe the beard of Spain,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Shadows on the Down
    When daffodils danced in Chuck Hatch, and white clouds
    Drew their own shadowy purple across the hills,
    14 lines
  • Song
    I came to the door of the House of Love
    And knocked as the starry night went by;
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • The Inn of Apollo
    Have you supped at the Inn of Apollo,
    While the last light fades from the West?
    22 lines
  • The Lost Battle
    It is not over yet-the fight
    Where those immortal dreamers failed.
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Successful Man
    (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID.)
    And after all the labour and the pains,
    24 lines
  • The People's Fleet
    OUT of her darkened fishing-ports they go,
    A fleet of little ships, whose every name —
    16 lines
  • The Big Black Trawler
    THE very best ship that ever I knew
    —Ah-way O, to me O—
    23 lines
  • Name Sakes
    BUT where's the brown drifter that went out alone ?
        -Roll and go, and fare you well-
    25 lines
  • Wireless.
    Now to those who search the deep,
    Gleam of Hope and Kindly Light,
    33 lines
  • Fishers Of Men
    Long, long ago, He said,
    He who could wake the dead
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • An Open Boat
    O, what is that whimpering there in the darkness?
    "Let him lie in my arms. He is breathing, I know.
    18 lines
  • The Escape of the Old Grey Squirrel
    Old Grey Squirrel might have been
      Almost anything —
    126 lines
  • The Old Grey Squirrel
    A great while ago there was a schoolboy
    who lived in a cottage by the sea,
    41 lines, 2 comments
  • Alzuna
    The forest of Alzuna hides a pool.
        Beside that pool, a shadowy tree up-towers.
    17 lines
  • At Dawn
    O Hesper-Phosphor, far away
        Shining, the first, the last white star,
    93 lines
  • Immortal Sails
    Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold,
      And ransack heaven before our moment fails.
    19 lines
  • Moving Through The Dew
    Moving through the dew, moving through the dew,
    Ere I waken in the city—Life, thy dawn makes all things new!
    55 lines
  • Niobe
    How like the sky she bends above her child,
      One with the great horizon of her pain!
    45 lines
  • On The Western Front
    I found a dreadful acre of the dead,
      Marked with the only sign on earth that saves.
    45 lines, 1 comment
  • The Double Fortress
    Time, wouldst thou hurt us? Never shall we grow old.
      Break as thou wilt these bodies of blind clay,
    19 lines
  • The Hills Of Youth
    Once, on the far blue hills,
    Alone with the pine and the cloud, in those high still places;
    37 lines
  • The Old Meeting House
    Its quiet graves were made for peace till Gabriel blows his horn.
        Those wise old elms could hear no cry
    57 lines
  • The Ballad of Dick Turpin
    The daylight moon looked quietly down
    Through the gathering dusk on London town
    182 lines, 2 comments
  • The Avenue Of The Allies
    This is the song of the wind as it came
    Tossing the flags of the nations to flame:
    105 lines
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