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Muriel Stuart's Poetry, by first line

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  • To A Gipsy
    ONCE when some sudden thought beseeches,
    Swift as a homing bird
    81 lines
  • At a Life's End
    COME here, rekindle the old fire,
    This last night leave no lamp unlit!
    51 lines
  • In Praise of Mandragora
    O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praise
    Of life, and death, and immortality,--
    86 lines
  • In the Orchard
    'I thought you loved me.' 'No, it was only fun.'
    'When we stood there, closer than all?' 'Well, the harvest moon
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Forgotten Dead, I Salute You
    Dawn has flashed up the startled skies,
    Night has gone out beneath the hill
    52 lines
  • The Seed-Shop
    Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
    Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,
    15 lines
  • To the Old Gods
    O YE, who rode the gales of Sicily,
    Sandalled with flame,
    66 lines
  • The Dead Moment
    THE world is changed between us, never more
    Shall the dawn rise and seek another mate
    98 lines
  • Christ at Carnival
    THE hand of carnival was at my door,
    I listened to its knocking, and sped down:
    429 lines
  • To a Poet, Charles Bridges
    THOU singest, thou, me seems,
    Coming from high Parnassus; where thy head
    92 lines
  • Ave et Vale
    FAREWELL is said! Yea, but I cannot take
    All that my Greeting gave.
    42 lines
  • The Chalice of Circe
    DRINK of our Cup--of the red wine that burns in it,
    All the wild shames that have crusted its mouth,
    51 lines
  • The End of Love
    WHO shall forget till his last hour be come,--
    Until the useful service of the dust
    61 lines
  • The Bellman
    BRING out your dead before you reap
    From lips beloved infection dread;
    11 lines
  • Wild Geese Across the Moon
    REEDS, snake-like, coiled in the mist
    Where the low fog drives:
    14 lines
  • Forgiveness
    ASK not my pardon! For if one hath need
    Once to forgive the god that he hath raised,
    15 lines
  • Now
    TAKE as you will, slake, solace, and possess
    While Youth, with laughter, scatters tears that fall
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Change
    CHANGE shall accustom me in after years
    To kingdom's builded on life's overthrow;
    14 lines
  • Possession
    MOST blessed one, how can I let thee go?
    Canst thou forswear the nightingale its tune--
    14 lines
  • After
    WHEN, on an empty night in later years
    Thou ponderest over sorrowful sweet things,
    14 lines
  • The Balcony
    A STREET at night, a silent square
    That mirth forbids;
    16 lines
  • Tintagel
    DEAD man! will you ride with me,
    As you rode that night of yore,
    20 lines
  • The Fools
    BELOW, the street was hoarse with cries,
    With groan of carts and scuffling feet,
    49 lines
  • A Chicot
    IN days of ancient history
    Who were you? Tell me if you know.
    44 lines
  • The Father
    The evening found us whom the day had fled,
    Once more in bitter anger, you and I,
    42 lines
  • Thèlus Wood
    I came by night to Thèlus wood,
    And though in dark and desperate places
    75 lines
  • The Thief of Beauty
    I
    The mind is Beauty's thief, the poet takes
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Annunciation
    "The lord appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and behold, the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed."-
    30 lines
  • Sic Transit
    "What did she leave?" . . .
    Only these hungry miser-words, poor heart!
    6 lines
  • Boys Bathing
          Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noon
          Heaves with crushed lips and glowing sides
    74 lines
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