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  • The Donkey
    When fishes flew and forests walked
    And figs grew upon thorn,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Femina Contra Mundum
    The sun was black with judgment, and the moon
    Blood: but between
    20 lines
  • A Cider Song
    To J.S.M.
    The wine they drink in Paradise
    25 lines
  • The Rolling English Road
    Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
    24 lines
  • A Prayer in Darkness
    This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave,
    Pity me not; but let the world be fed,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • The Sword of Suprise
    Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God
    Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees;
    16 lines
  • Lepanto
    White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
    And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
    151 lines, 3 comments
  • A Christmas Carol
    The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
    His hair was like a light.
    16 lines
  • Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode
    Are they clinging to their crosses,
    F. E. Smith,
    48 lines
  • The Unpardonable Sin
    I do not cry, beloved, neither curse.
    Silence and strength, these two at least are good.
    16 lines
  • A Ballade of Suicide
    The gallows in my garden, people say,
    Is new and neat and adequately tall;
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • The Song of Right and Wrong
    Feast on wine or fast on water
    And your honour shall stand sure,
    32 lines
  • The Old Song
    A livid sky on London
    And like the iron steeds that rear
    53 lines
  • The Convert
    After one moment when I bowed my head
    And the whole world turned over and came upright,
    14 lines
  • The Song of the Strange Ascetic
    If I had been a Heathen,
    I'd have praised the purple vine,
    40 lines
  • The Great Minimum
    It is something to have wept as we have wept,
    It is something to have done as we have done,
    25 lines
  • A Child of the Snows
    There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim,
    And never before or again,
    16 lines
  • A Hymn
    O God of earth and altar,
    Bow down and hear our cry,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Black Virgin
    One in thy thousand statues we salute thee
    On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim
    80 lines
  • Ecclesiastes
    There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,
    Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.
    8 lines
  • The Aristocrat
    The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay
    At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).
    22 lines, 2 comments
  • The Song against Grocers
    God made the wicked Grocer
    For a mystery and a sign,
    56 lines
  • To the Unknown Warrior
    You whom the kings saluted; who refused not
    The one great pleasure of ignoble days,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • The Deluge
    Though giant rains put out the sun,
    Here stand I for a sign.
    24 lines
  • The Higher Unity
    The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as there has be
    21 lines
  • The Song of the Oak
    The Druids waved their golden knives
    And danced around the Oak
    42 lines
  • The New Omar
    A Book of verses underneath the bough,
    Provided that the verses do not scan,
    8 lines
  • The House of Christmas
    There fared a mother driven forth
    Out of an inn to roam;
    40 lines
  • On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
    Impetuously I sprang from bed,
    Long before lunch was up,
    109 lines
  • The Myth of Arthur
    O learned man who never learned to learn,
    Save to deduce, by timid steps and small,
    18 lines, 1 comment
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