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  • The Peace Advocate
    The vicar sat in the firelight's glow,
    A volume in his hand,
    84 lines
  • To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkelt,
    Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
    As when the sun above a dusky wold,
    64 lines
  • Tosh Bosh
    Ah, Passion, like a voice - that buds!
    With many thorns...that sharply stick:
    18 lines
  • Ode for July Fourth, 1917
    As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd,
    Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;
    28 lines
  • Lines on General Robert Edward Lee
    Si veris magna paratur
    Fama bonis, et se successu nuda remoto
    65 lines
  • The House
    'Tis a grove-circled dwelling
    Set close to a hill,
    40 lines
  • The Messenger
    The thing, he said, would come in the night at three
    From the old churchyard on the hill below;
    15 lines
  • The Rose Of England
    At morn the rosebud greets the sun
    And sheds the evening dew,
    12 lines
  • On Receiving a Picture of Swans
    With pensive grace, the melancholy Swan
    Mourns o'er the tomb of luckless Phaethon;
    11 lines
  • On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder
    The hours of night unheeded fly,
    And in the grate the embers fade;
    15 lines
  • The Poe-et's Nightmare
    A Fable
    307 lines, 1 comment
  • St. John
    St. John, whose art sublimely shines
    In liquid odes and melting lines,
    9 lines
  • Providence
    Where bay and river tranquil blend,
    And leafy hillsides rise,
    40 lines
  • Christmastide
    The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
    The candles gaily glow;
    9 lines
  • The Wood
    They cut it down, and where the pitch-black aisles
    Of forest night had hid eternal things,
    24 lines
  • Good Saint Nick
    May good St. Nick, like as a bird of night,
    Bring thee rich blessings in his annual flight;
    5 lines
  • Laeta; A Lament
    How sad droop the willows by Zalal's fair side,
    Where so lately I stray'd with my raven-hair'd bride;
    44 lines
  • Revelation
    In a vale of light and laughter,
    Shining 'neath the friendly sun,
    56 lines
  • Halcyon Days
    Once more the ancient feast returns,
    And the bright hearth domestic burns
    6 lines
  • The Conscript
    I am a peaceful working man,
    I am not wise or strong,
    48 lines
  • Fact and Fancy
    How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mind
    Disdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;
    30 lines
  • Pacifist War Song - 1917
    We are the valiant Knights of Peace
    Who prattle for the Right:
    28 lines
  • Festival
    There is snow on the ground,
    And the valleys are cold,
    24 lines
  • An American to Mother England
    England! My England! can the surging sea
    That lies between us tear my heart from thee?
    63 lines
  • The City
    It was golden and splendid,
    That City of light;
    55 lines
  • Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance
    I
    Out of the reaches of illimitable night
    137 lines
  • Hallowe'en in a Suburb
    The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
    And the trees have a silver glare;
    35 lines
  • The Bride of the Sea
    Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,
    Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • The Garden
    There's an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams,
    Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams;
    17 lines
  • Nathicana
    It was in the pale garden of Zais;
    The mist-shrouded gardens of Zais,
    99 lines, 1 comment
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