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Robert Laurence Binyon's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Song
    For Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth,
    There is no measure upon earth.
    10 lines
  • The Rain Was Ending, And Light
    The rain was ending, and light
    Lifting the leaden skies.
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • The Children Dancing
    Away, sad thoughts, and teasing
    Perplexities, away!
    36 lines
  • The Woods Entry
    So old is the wood, so old,
    Old as Fear.
    9 lines
  • The Zeppelin
    Guns! far and near
    Quick, sudden, angry,
    36 lines
  • The House That Was
    Of the old house, only a few, crumbled
    Courses of brick, smothered in nettle and dock,
    16 lines
  • A Glimpse Of Time
    In the shadow of a broken house,
    Down a deserted street,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Healers
    In a vision of the night I saw them,
    In the battles of the night.
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Edith Cavell
    She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came—
    The lint in her hand unrolled.
    69 lines
  • The Anvil
    Burned from the ore’s rejected dross,
    The iron whitens in the heat.
    14 lines
  • Commercial
    Gross, with protruding ears,
    Sleek hair, brisk glance, fleshy and yet alert,
    36 lines
  • Numbers
    Trefoil and Quatrefoil!
    What shaped those destinied small silent leaves
    82 lines
  • Magnets
    A far look in absorbed eyes, unaware
    Of what some gazer thrills to gather there;
    21 lines
  • The Tamarisk Hedge
    I know that there are slumbrous woods beyond
    On islands of white marges, where the tide
    21 lines
  • Little Hands
    Soft little hands that stray and clutch,
    Like fern fronds curl and uncurl bold,
    13 lines
  • Koya San
    High on the mountain, shrouded in vast trees,
    The stillness had the chastity of frost.
    96 lines
  • The Moment
    Lose me, full, full moment,
    Like a ripple round,
    14 lines
  • In Memory Of Richard Henry Powell
    2nd Lieut., Cinque Ports Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
    Strong, loyal--souled, full--hearted, blithely brave,
    3 lines
  • "A child in nature, as a child in years"
    A child in nature, as a child in years,
    If on past hours she turn remembering eyes,
    17 lines
  • A Day That Is Boundless As Youth
    A day that is boundless as youth
    And gay with delight to be born,
    16 lines
  • Stray Seed
    A far look in absorbed eyes, unaware
    Of what some gazer thrills to gather there;
    22 lines
  • From The Chinese
    A flower, or the ghost of a flower!
    Mist, or the soul of it, felt
    7 lines
  • The Forest Pine
    A hundred autumns fallen in fire
    To dust and mould
    71 lines
  • The Unreturning Spring
    A leaf on the gray sand--path
    Fallen, and fair with rime!
    14 lines
  • The Cockatoo; From The Chinese
    A present from tropical Annam,
    A bird with a human speech,
    8 lines
  • To The Summer Night
    A sultry perfume of voluptuous June
    Enchants the air still breathing of warm day;
    83 lines
  • Martha
    A woman sat, with roses red
    Upon her lap before her spread,
    226 lines
  • "Ah, now this happy month is gone"
    Ah, now this happy month is gone,
    Not now, my heart, complain,
    9 lines
  • Autumn Song
    All is wild with change,
    Large the yellow leaves
    15 lines
  • Miyajima
    All paths lead upward to the sky
    In this green isle, which mounts on high
    24 lines
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