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Here is the little door, lift up t… We need not wander more but enter… Our gift of finest gold, Gold that was never bought nor sol… Myrrh to be strewn about his bed;
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew the end was near: And something said that far away,…
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: “Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these cas...
When God turned back eternity and… Ancient of Days, grown little for… (As under the low arch the land is… Peered through you, gate of heaven… Or shutting out his shining skies…
King Dives he was walking in his… Where his flowers are made of iron… stone, And his hives are full of thunder… and kills,
When Death was on thy drums, Demo… And with one rush of slaves the wo… In that high dawn that Kings shal… A void there was and Walter was n… Through sacked Versailles, at Val…
John Grubby, who was short and st… And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate’s knee; (For so the eternal strife must ra…
Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No; I may not tell the best;
Passionate peace is in the sky— And in the snow in silver sealed The beasts are perfect in the fiel… And men seem men so suddenly— (But take ten swords and ten times…
[From a souvenir programme produced for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912, for those affected by the sinking of the Titanic just a month previously. It includes poems an...
I have not read a rotten page Of “Sex-Hate” or “The Social Te… And here comes “Husks” and “Herit… O Moses, give us all a rest! “Ethics of Empire”!... I protest
Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry o… The year and I are old. In youth I sought the prince of m…
The gallows in my garden, people s… Is new and neat and adequately tal… I tie the noose on in a knowing wa… As one that knots his necktie for… But just as all the neighbours—on…
Of old with a divided heart I saw my people’s pride expand, Since a man’s soul is torn apart By mother earth and fatherland. I knew, through many a tangled tal…
In the city set upon slime and loa… They cry in their parliament ‘Who… And there comes no answer in arch… For none in the city of graves goe… Yet these shall perish and underst…