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  • Complaint
    WHEN in the mines of dark and silent thought
    Sometimes I delve and find strange fancies there,
    14 lines
  • Drilling in Russel Square
    The withered leaves that drift in Russell Square
    Will turn to mud and dust and moulder there
    24 lines
  • The Nightjars
    ALL day the cuckoo has sung his double cries,
    Far in the woods and hidden, or close hut not seen:
    58 lines
  • Winter Trees
    "Still the unmoving winter trees
    Hold up the pure curves of their boughs,
    5 lines
  • Going in to Dinner
    Beat the knife on the plate and the fork on the can,
    For we’re going in to dinner, so make all the noise you can,
    9 lines
  • The Storm
    We wake to hear the storm come down,
    Sudden on roof and pane;
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Old Soldiers
    We come from dock and shipyard, we come from car and train,
    We come from foreign countries to slope our arms again,
    9 lines
  • A Lonely Place
    The leafless trees, the untidy stack
      Last rainy summer raised in haste,
    28 lines
  • Woman’s Song
    No more upon my bosom rest thee,
    Too often have my hands caressed thee,
    26 lines
  • The Beach Of Shells
    (To Hugh Miller)
    There is a beach upon a western shore
    54 lines
  • The Glade
    We may raise our voices even in this still glade:
      Though the colours and shadows and sounds so fleeting seem,
    13 lines
  • The Fairy's Child
    I have known love, and thrice or more
    Has beauty on my pleading smiled:
    13 lines
  • The Wind
    Blow harder, wind, and drive
    My blood from hands and face back to the heart.
    30 lines
  • Overheard At A Literary Party
    "Twenty per cent . . . twenty per cent ..."
    "That's what he said I don't know what he meant . . ."
    19 lines
  • The Rock Pool
    This is the sea. In these uneven walls
      A wave lies prisoned. Far and far away
    13 lines
  • Memory
    In silence and in darkness memory wakes
    Her million sheathed buds, and breaks
    83 lines
  • The Cataclysm
    When a great wave disturbs the ocean cold
    And throws the bottom waters to the sky,
    14 lines
  • The Glow Worm
    The pale road winds faintly upward into the dark skies,
    And beside it on the rough grass that the wind invisibly stirs,
    16 lines
  • Marching at Home: Pictures
    I
    Under a grey dawn, timidly breaking,
    28 lines
  • A Hollow Elm
    What hast thou not withstood,
    Tempest-despising tree,
    30 lines
  • Fête Galante
    Aristonoë, the fading shepherdess,
    Gathers the young girls round her in a ring,
    180 lines
  • On Account of Ill-Health
    You go, brave friends, and I am cast to stay behind,
    To read with frowning eyes and discontented mind
    26 lines
  • Low Germany
    No more the English girls may go
    To follow with the drum,
    17 lines
  • Good Wishes
    Good luck, good health, good temper, these,
    A very hive of honey-bees
    12 lines
  • Song
    As I lay in the early sun,
    Stretched in the grass, I thought upon
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • A Night Piece
    Come out and walk. The last few drops of light
    Drain silently out of the cloudy blue;
    24 lines
  • In Absence
    My lovely one, be near to me to-night.
    For now I need you most, since I have gone
    13 lines, 1 comment
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