#English #WarWriters
I watch you, gazing at me from the… And wonder how you’d match your dr… If, mastering time’s illusion, I… You back to share this quiet candl… For you were young, three hundred…
When life was a cobweb of stars fo… In the whisper of leaves or a bird… On dawn—lit hills and horizons gir… I sought for the triumph that trou… With death in the terrible flicker…
Your dextrous wit will haunt us lo… Wounding our grief with yesterday. Your laughter is a broken song; And death has found you, kind and… We may forget those transient thin…
When old Noah stared across the f… Sky and water melted into one Looking—glass of shifting tides an… Mountain—tops were few: the ship w… All the morn old Noah marvelled g…
In gold and grey, with fleering lo… I watch them come; by two, by thre… Advancing slow, with loutings they… Their woven measure, widening from… While music—men behind are straddl…
Some Brave, awake in you to—night… Knocked at your heart: an eagle’s… Stirred in the feather on your hea… Your wide—set Indian eyes, alight Above high cheek—bones smeared wit…
I’d heard fool—heroes brag of wher… With stories of the glories that t… But you, good simple soldier, seas… In woods and posts and crater—line… Who dodge remembered ‘crumps’ with…
There stood a Poplar, tall and st… The fair, round Moon, uprisen lat… Made the long shadow on the grass A ghostly bridge ’twixt heaven and… But May, with slumbrous nights, m…
I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat i… Down a canal; it drew the dizzy la… The solemn world was sucked along… Land—slide of loveliness. O, but… Staring, and clinging to my tree—t…
Who’s this—alone with stone and sk… It’s only my old dog and I— It’s only him; it’s only me; Alone with stone and grass and tre… What share we most—we two together…
THE Bishop tells us: ‘When the b… ‘They will not be the same; for th… ‘In a just cause: they lead the la… ‘On Anti—Christ; their comrades’… ‘New right to breed an honourable…
I heard a clash, and a cry, And a horseman fleeing the wood. The moon hid in a cloud. Deep in shadow I stood. ‘Ugly work!’ thought I,
I cannot think that Death will pr… To snuff you out or put you off yo… You’ll still contrive to play your… Though hurricanes may sweep the di… And darkness blur the sandy—skirte…
‘Pass it along, the wiring party’s… And yawning sentries mumble, ‘Wir… Unravelling; twisting; hammering s… They toil with stealthy haste and… The Boche sends up a flare. Black…
I listen for him through the rain, And in the dusk of starless hours I know that he will come again; Loth was he ever to forsake me: He comes with glimmering of flower…