Burnett A. Ward's Poetry, by first line

• Christmas Carol

  "Fear not! For unto you is born a Child,
  In David's city Christ the Lord is born!"

  23 lines
• The Pity Of The Dead

        Adown a road in Picardy
        Where War has wed Romance,

  33 lines
• Dollfuss

  A catafalque beneath St. Stephen's spire;
  Tensed mobs, that sob and surge with fearful breath;

  23 lines
• Song Of The Galley Slaves

  A devil serves our masters
  And warps to their desire

  43 lines
• Time's Remorses

  Before the raid at Avion, we talked an hour or more,
  Of home, and hopes, and girls, and beer, of profiteers and war,

  26 lines
• Magdalen Walks

  Cloying her lips as the honeycomb, smooth are the words of her mouth,
  But her feet in the paths of the hopeless roam, and her steps

  30 lines
• Soldier Suicide

  Death trysted me while youth was dewy still;
  She offered Glory for my passion's fee;

  12 lines
• To The Doctrinaires

  Doubtless yours are the Masters, giants of mind and of soul,
  Not fanciful faked pilasters, but columns, supporting the whole;

  19 lines
• Box Car Elegy

  Eighteen; and Life had shewn him all she hath
  Of hate and bitterness and carking care;

  28 lines
• Prayer Of The Slaves (Roman Empire, A.D. 200)

  Father, our souls are heavy, pent in the shackles of flesh,
  Fagged of our masters' levy, snared in the Empire's mesh;

  28 lines
• Dead Men On Parade

  From Mericourt to Avion
  'Tis but a mile or so:

  18 lines
• Madhouse Cell

  God is our chosen Leader -- but let Him understand
  That He may only guide us where our desires command!

  23 lines
• Ichabod

  Here shrines are void and voiceless, all are fled;
  Roofless the columns and the altars bare.

  23 lines
• The Spirit Of The Press

  Ho! Ye who mourn the serried ranks that mould
  On fens of Flanders, hills of Picardy,

  38 lines
• A Lesson

  I saw, in No Man's land,
  Tw boys handclasp in brotherhood of death,

  28 lines
• Pan In The Park

  I've never been to Thessaly, and Ida's vales may never see
  Where gods have doffed divinity for wanton love and play;

  33 lines
• Death In Israel

  Long has been the pilgrimage, Oh son of my begetting;
  Weary through the centuries and o'er the deserts wide;

  28 lines
• Ballade Of The C.C.F.

  Men, brother men, who, voiceless, round us fret,
  How can ye credit still they are sincere?

  49 lines
• Street Song

  My eyes are cold, and brazen are my lips,
  My smile is bold, but sometimes longing slips

  28 lines
• Thanksgiving Day

  My God, or thine? -- or God of each and both?
  My God, say you? Then let me not be loath

  21 lines
• O, Canada

  O, Canada, our lives we pledge to thee,
  Our hearts and hands, to set thy people free;

  16 lines
• Roundel

  Oh boy of mine, spread-eagled on your bed,
  Whose is the see-er eye that might divine

  12 lines
• Fascism

  Oh Shade obscene from out the jungled past,
  Fear o' the Dark made incarnate again,

  13 lines
• The Saga Of Sergeant Scott

  Private Scott of the Highlanders,
  Strutted and swanked in the market-place.

  147 lines
• The Prisoner

  She entered to the courtroom, and took the prisoners' stand;
  Her filmy gown was yellow as the primrose in her hand;

  33 lines
• Spring In Labor Camp

  Spring is in the Valley, sap and budding time,
  A thousand voices rally into sheer, clear rhyme;

  30 lines
• W.A.P.

  The Genoese his world's horizon scanned;
  Fools scoffed him, savants laughed and bishops banned

  9 lines
• Vesper Song

  The organ peals through pictured panes that etch strange patterns on the grass,
  A thorned head shadowed on the flags, beneath the fe

  30 lines
• Our Cultural Heritage

  There you have it, Art is Culture, so we're cultured head to toe,
  For our ads do bring us learning sealed to Michael Angelo;

  28 lines
• "Daily Dollars"

  There's ships that bring us cargoes, but not of our desire,
      Their ladings hail from all the ports 'twixt Halifax and

  23 lines

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