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  • Alliterativism
    (THE LATEST SCHOOL)
    See the flying French depart
    28 lines
  • Modern Elfland
    I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse,
      I clad myself in ragged things,
    38 lines
  • The Earth's Shame
    Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste
      We dragged him darkly o'er the windy fell:
    18 lines
  • The Fish
    Dark the sea was: but I saw him,
      One great head with goggle eyes,
    23 lines
  • The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon
    Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,
    Mighty as fear and old as night;
    139 lines
  • The World's Lover
    My eyes are full of lonely mirth:
      Reeling with want and worn with scars,
    33 lines
  • Ultimate
    The vision of a haloed host
      That weep around an empty throne;
    8 lines
  • The Triumph Of Man
    I plod and peer amid mean sounds and shapes,
      I hunt for dusty gain and dreary praise,
    13 lines
  • The Mirror Of Madmen
    I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost,
    The splendid stillness of a living host;
    38 lines
  • The Desecraters
    Witness all: that unrepenting,
      Feathers flying, music high,
    18 lines
  • The Last Masquerade
    A wan new garment of young green
      Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair
    13 lines
  • The Pessimist
    You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--
    I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know.
    24 lines
  • The Hope Of The Streets
    The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood
      And cursed them, bloom of hedge and bird of tree,
    13 lines
  • Cyclopean
    A mountainous and mystic brute
    No rein can curb, no arrow shoot,
    23 lines
  • The Outlaw
    Priest, is any song-bird stricken?
      Is one leaf less on the tree?
    18 lines
  • E.C.B.
    Before the grass grew over me,
      I knew one good man through and through,
    18 lines
  • The Praise Of Dust
    'What of vile dust?' the preacher said.
      Methought the whole world woke,
    33 lines
  • The Happy Man
    To teach the grey earth like a child,
      To bid the heavens repent,
    13 lines
  • Joseph
    If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams
      Of bliss and blasphemy came true,
    18 lines
  • The Wild Knight
    The wasting thistle whitens on my crest,
    The barren grasses blow upon my spear,
    797 lines
  • The Song Of The Children
    The World is ours till sunset,
      Holly and fire and snow;
    23 lines
  • Behind
    I saw an old man like a child,
    His blue eyes bright, his white hair wild,
    18 lines
  • An Alliance
    This is the weird of a world-old folk,
      That not till the last link breaks,
    34 lines
  • Vanity
    A wan sky greener than the lawn,
      A wan lawn paler than the sky.
    18 lines
  • The Lamp Post
    Laugh your best, O blazoned forests,
      Me ye shall not shift or shame
    38 lines
  • 'Vulgarised'
    All round they murmur, 'O profane,
      Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';
    28 lines
  • The Ballad Of God-Makers
    A bird flew out at the break of day
      From the nest where it had curled,
    68 lines
  • The Wood-Cutter
    We came behind him by the wall,
      My brethren drew their brands,
    28 lines
  • Good News
    Between a meadow and a cloud that sped
      In rain and twilight, in desire and fear.
    18 lines
  • A Man And His Image
    All day the nations climb and crawl and pray
      In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,
    68 lines
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