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  • Love
    Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
    Where that comes in that shall not go again;
    15 lines, 5 comments
  • The Chilterns
    Your hands, my dear, adorable,
    Your lips of tenderness
    40 lines
  • Home
    I came back late and tired last night
    Into my little room,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • The Night Journey
    Hands and lit faces eddy to a line;
    The dazed last minutes click; the clamour dies.
    28 lines
  • Beauty and Beauty
    When Beauty and Beauty meet
    All naked, fair to fair,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • The Way That Lovers Use
    The way that lovers use is this;
    They bow, catch hands, with never a word,
    12 lines
  • Mary And Gabriel
    Young Mary, loitering once her garden way,
    Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day,
    62 lines
  • A Letter To A Live Poet
    Sir, since the last Elizabethan died,
        Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse,
    51 lines
  • And Love Has Changed To Kindliness
    When love has changed to kindliness,
        Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire
    Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
        Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour
    Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
        And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
    14 lines
  • Nineteen-Fourteen
    I PEACE
    Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,
    78 lines
  • Second Best
    Here in the dark, O heart;
    Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,
    39 lines
  • Ante Aram
    Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,
    Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,
    19 lines
  • The Song Of The Pilgrims
    (Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.)...
    What light of unremembered skies 
    41 lines
  • Day That I Have Loved
    Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
    And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.
    30 lines
  • Sleeping Out: Full Moon
    They sleep within. . . .
    I cower to the earth, I waking, I only.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • In Examination
    Lo! from quiet skies
    In through the window my Lord the Sun!
    26 lines
  • Pine-Trees And The Sky: Evening
    I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky,
    And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Mummia
    As those of old drank mummia
    To fire their limbs of lead,
    44 lines
  • Wagner
    Creeps in half wanton, half asleep,
    One with a fat wide hairless face.
    15 lines
  • The Song Of The Beasts
    Come away!  Come away!
    Ye are sober and dull through the common day,
    32 lines
  • Failure
    Because God put His adamantine fate
    Between my sullen heart and its desire,
    14 lines
  • Dawn
    Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat.
    Through sullen swirling gloom we jolt and roar.
    14 lines
  • The Wayfarers
    Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place
    Made fair by one another for a while.
    14 lines
  • The Beginning
    Some day I shall rise and leave my friends
    And seek you again through the world's far ends,
    20 lines
  • The Goddess In The Wood
    In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood,
    Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one
    14 lines
  • The Vision Of The Archangels
    Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world,
    Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky,
    14 lines
  • Seaside
    Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band,
    The crowd's good laughter, the loved eyes of men,
    15 lines
  • On The Death Of Smet-Smet, The Hippopotamus- Goddess
    She was wrinkled and huge and hideous? She was our Mother.
    She was lustful and lewd? -- but a God; we had none other.
    28 lines
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