#English #WarWriters
I Stood with the Dead, so forsake… When dawn was grey I stood with t… And my slow heart said, ‘You must… ’Soldier, soldier, morning is red’… On the shapes of the slain in thei…
I am that fantasy which race has w… Of mundane chance—material. I am… Paeaned by the senses five like be… I am that cramped and crumbling ho… Where mansoul weaves the secret we…
They are gathering round.... Out of the twilight; over the grey… Shoals of low—jargoning men drift… The jangle and throb of a piano ..… Drawn by a lamp, they come
'Jack fell as he’d have wished,' t… And folded up the letter that she’… ‘The Colonel writes so nicely.’ S… In the tired voice that quavered t… She half looked up. ‘We mothers a…
In me, past, present, future meet To hold long chiding conference. My lusts usurp the present tense And strangle Reason in his seat. My loves leap through the future’s…
O beauty doomed and perfect for an… Leaping along the verge of death a… You show me dauntless Youth that… Four long years past, discovering… You die but in our dreams, who wat…
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…
Sleep; and my song shall build abo… A paradise of dimness. You shall… The folding of tired wings; and pe… Throned in your silence: and one h… Summer, and midnight, and immensit…
Here I’m sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, Fledged with forest May has crown… And I puff my pipe, calm—hearted,
Squire nagged and bullied till I… (Under Lord Derby’s Scheme). I d… (They called it Passchendaele). M… And I was hobbling back; and then… Burst slick upon the duck—boards:…
Then a wind blew; And he who had forgot he moved Lonely amid the green and silver m… Suddenly grew Aware of clouds and trees
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…
When roaring gloom surged inward a… Groping for friendly hands, and cl… Like racing smoke, swift from your… phantoms of thought and memory thi… Yet, though my dreams that throng…
Evening was in the wood, louring w… A time of drought had sucked the w… And baked the channels; birds had… Thirst was a dream of fountains in… Or willow—music blown across the w…
Give me your hand, my brother, sea… Look in these eyes lest I should… For we have made an end of all thi… We are returning by the road we ca… Your lot is with the ghosts of sol…