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  • Sporting Acquaintances
    I watched old squatting Chimpanzee: he traced
    His painful patterns in the dirt: I saw
    14 lines
  • Solar Eclipse
    Observe these blue solemnities of sky
    Offering for the academes of after-ages
    35 lines
  • Grandeur Of Ghosts
    When I have heard small talk about great men
    I climb to bed; light my two candles; then
    13 lines
  • Ex-Service
            Derision from the dead
            Mocks armamental madness.
    16 lines
  • Microcosmos
        I am that fantasy which race has wrought
        Of mundane chance-material. I am time
    15 lines
  • The Goldsmith
    This job’s the best I’ve done.’ He bent his head
    Over the golden vessel that he’d wrought.
    12 lines
  • The Portrait
    I watch you, gazing at me from the wall,
    And wonder how you'd match your dreams with mine,
    24 lines
  • The Road To Ruin
        My hopes, my messengers I sent
        Across the ten years continent
    13 lines
  • The Heritage
    Cry out on Time that he may take away
    Your cold philosophies that give no hint
    15 lines
  • Noah
    When old Noah stared across the floods,
    Sky and water melted into one
    14 lines
  • Dryads
    When meadows are grey with the morn
    In the dusk of the woods it is night:
    14 lines
  • Dream-Forest
    Where sunshine flecks the green,
    Through towering woods my way
    16 lines
  • The Choral Union
    He staggered in from night and frost and fog
    And lampless streets: he’d guzzled like a hog
    29 lines
  • David Cleek
    I cannot think that Death will press his claim
    To snuff you out or put you off your game:
    17 lines
  • To Leonide Massine In ‘Cleopatra’
    O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour, 
    Leaping along the verge of death and night, 
    13 lines
  • Middle-Ages
    I heard a clash, and a cry,
    And a horseman fleeing the wood.
    17 lines
  • Daybreak In A Garden
    I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin, 
    When hooded night was going and one clear planet winked: 
    7 lines
  • Goblin Revel
    In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin,
    I watch them come; by two, by three, by four,
    15 lines
  • Night-Piece
    Ye hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan,
    Quench your fantastic lanterns and be still;
    15 lines
  • Limitations
    If you could crowd them into forty lines!
    Yes; you can do it, once you get a start;
    46 lines
  • Concert Party
    They are gathering round....
    Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand,
    24 lines
  • Dreamers
    Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land,
    Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
    14 lines
  • The Dark House
    Dusk in the rain-soaked garden,
    And dark the house within.
    17 lines
  • Slumber-Song
    Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed
    A paradise of dimness. You shall feel
    14 lines
  • South Wind
    Where have you been, South Wind, this May-day morning,—
    With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow,
    12 lines
  • Fancy Dress
    Some Brave, awake in you to-night,
    Knocked at your heart: an eagle’s flight
    12 lines
  • Elegy
    Your dextrous wit will haunt us long
    Wounding our grief with yesterday.
    14 lines
  • The Old Huntsman
    I’ve never ceased to curse the day I signed
    A seven years’ bargain for the Golden Fleece.
    222 lines
  • Companions
    Leave not your bough, my slender song-bird sweet,
    But pipe me now your roundelay complete.
    11 lines
  • Prelude To An Unwritten Masterpiece
    You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; 
    Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; 
    32 lines
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