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John McCrae's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Song Of Comfort
    "Sleep, weary ones, while ye may --
    Sleep, oh, sleep!"
    27 lines
  • Anarchy
    I saw a city filled with lust and shame,
    Where men, like wolves, slunk through the grim half-light;
    15 lines
  • Disarmament
    One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
    From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
    10 lines
  • Equality
    I saw a King, who spent his life to weave
    Into a nation all his great heart thought,
    15 lines
  • Eventide
    The day is past and the toilers cease;
    The land grows dim 'mid the shadows grey,
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • In Due Season
    If night should come and find me at my toil,
    When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
    10 lines
  • Isandlwana
    Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band,
    The grey of a pauper's gown,
    37 lines
  • Mine Host
    There stands a hostel by a travelled way;
    Life is the road and Death the worthy host;
    16 lines
  • Penance
    My lover died a century ago,
    Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath,
    25 lines
  • Quebec
    Of old, like Helen, guerdon of the strong --
    Like Helen fair, like Helen light of word,
    8 lines
  • Recompense
    I saw two sowers in Life's field at morn,
    To whom came one in angel guise and said,
    16 lines
  • Slumber Songs
    I
    Sleep, little eyes
    27 lines
  • The Anxious Dead
    O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
    Above their heads the legions pressing on:
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Captain
    Here all the day she swings from tide to tide,
    Here all night long she tugs a rusted chain,
    28 lines
  • The Dead Master
    Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime:
    To-day around him surges from the silences of Time
    5 lines
  • The Dying Of Pere Pierre
    ". . . with two other priests; the same night he died,
    and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name."
    21 lines
  • The Harvest Of The Sea
    The earth grows white with harvest; all day long
    The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves
    10 lines
  • The Hope Of My Heart
    I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,
    With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light;
    13 lines
  • The Night Cometh
    Cometh the night. The wind falls low,
    The trees swing slowly to and fro:
    18 lines
  • The Oldest Drama
    "It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
    And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he
    18 lines
  • The Pilgrims
    An uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers,
    Where every beam that broke the leaden sky
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • The Shadow Of The Cross
    At the drowsy dusk when the shadows creep
    From the golden west, where the sunbeams sleep,
    39 lines
  • The Song Of The Derelict
    Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes
    (I scorn your beguiling, O sea!)
    27 lines
  • The Unconquered Dead
    ". . . defeated, with great loss."
    39 lines
  • The Warrior
    He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days,
    But with the night his little lamp-lit room
    16 lines
  • Then And Now
    Beneath her window in the fragrant night
    I half forget how truant years have flown
    15 lines
  • Unsolved
    Amid my books I lived the hurrying years,
    Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;
    15 lines
  • Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit"
    But yesterday the tourney, all the eager joy of life,
    The waving of the banners, and the rattle of the spears,
    18 lines
  • In Flanders Field
    In Flanders’ Fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    17 lines, 10 comments
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