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Robert Crawford's Poetry, by first line

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  • Toward the Close
    Time grows upon us until we exhaust
    Hope's possibilities, and then we die
    14 lines
  • Dream-Death
    There is a breath at midnight that comes in
    Sad as a sigh, for then the day is dead
    15 lines
  • For Lillian
    She was so dear, so fair. Her memory stays,
    Even her dying robs me not of this,
    14 lines
  • Winged Words
    The winged words, they pass
    Still everywhere,
    17 lines
  • Song
    LOVE, love me only,
    Love me for ever;
    8 lines
  • Spring.
    "Let the light rain on her, the sweet Spring, till
    She teems with greenery in the warm air,
    19 lines
  • The Comic Preacher.
    "What proof have you the good man is a fool,
    Or that the folly does not rather lie
    6 lines
  • In The Grass.
    'Tis as if I saw it all — sat now in the grass, and heard
    The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird;
    23 lines
  • Life's Eden.
    'Tis in sooth life's Eden,
    We within it;
    27 lines
  • The Finer Spirit.
    'Tis when the wits I have are gone
    The finer powers appear;
    7 lines
  • A River Isle.
    A little island in the river
    There is, round which the breezes quiver
    11 lines
  • The Soul.
    A soul came up to God, and said:
    "Give me not human birth
    71 lines
  • Entranced.
    A trance upon my spirit fell;
    It seemed as I were hurled
    7 lines
  • The Retreat.
    Against my lonely latter years
    I'll build a faery home for me —
    19 lines
  • The Unborn.
    Ah God! for those who are coming,
    The millions who yet must be!
    7 lines
  • Gold.
    Ah, Gold! 'tis filthy lucre, honour's shame,
    For which so many a Judas still sells truth!
    4 lines
  • Love's Own.
    Ah, that hair no age can dye
    That is golden in Love's eye,
    9 lines
  • Thought's Austerity.
    Alas! in this bare life thought is austere,
    And only when the dream-clouds cover us
    5 lines
  • Women.
    Alas! we women are the fools of you:
    You mould us and you mar us — we are yours,
    5 lines
  • Shakespeare?
    And what think ye of Shakespeare? 'Twas not he
    Of Stratford is the lord of England's lyre;
    13 lines
  • In Nineveh.
    As he of Joppa sought to 'scape
    The utterance of the given word,
    27 lines
  • Barbarians.
    As the crinoid star-fish to the sea-base
    By his stem fixed draws bare subsistence in
    15 lines
  • At The Back Of The Brain.
    At the back of the brain a picture lies
    Of all we have been and done,
    11 lines
  • Thought's Assiduity.
    Be not afraid of facts; they must be faced,
    And thought must in the affairs of circumstance
    10 lines
  • Ever And Only.
    Be with me ever and only,
    No other in thought with you;
    7 lines
  • Madrigal #2.
    Because our life is brief
    Let us laugh!
    6 lines
  • The Ghost Ship.
    Behold her on the silent sea,
    Yon vessel like a spirit there!
    23 lines
  • Bottom's Dream.
    Bottom's dream had no bottom; ours may, too,
    Have no foundation. We may wake, indeed;
    9 lines
  • Antony's Friend.
    Bring me my robes and crown!
    I must make a brave end,
    15 lines
  • Queen And Clown.
    Cleopatra: Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, that kills and
    pains not?
    13 lines
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