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The sun was black with judgment, a… Blood: but between I saw a man stand, saying: ‘To me… The grass is green. ’There was no star that I forgot…
If sunset clouds could grow on tre… It would but match the may in flow… And skies be underneath the seas No topsyturvier than a shower. If mountains rose on wings to wand…
Before the Roman came to Rye or o… The rolling English drunkard made… A reeling road, a rolling road, th… And after him the parson ran, the… A merry road, a mazy road, and suc…
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…
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,…
The Devil is a gentleman, and ask… At his little place at What’sitsn… They say the sport is splendid; th… And fairy scenes, and fearful feat… He can shoot the feathered cherubs…
A Book of verses underneath the b… Provided that the verses do not sc… A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and… Short-haired, all angles, looking… But let the wine be unfermented,…
Michael, Michael: Michael of the… Michael of the Army of the Lord, Stiffen thou the hand upon the sti… Folded and shut upon the sheathed… Under the fullness of the white ro…
Many have Earth’s lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the best saw I. One that in a field alone
Why should we reck of hours that r… While we two ride together? The heavens rent from end to end Would be but windy weather, The strong stars shaken down in sp…
Heaven shall forgive you Bridge a… The clothes you wear—or do not wea… And Ladies’ Leap-frog on the lawn And dyes and drugs, and petits ver… Your vicious things shall melt in…
You whom the kings saluted; who re… The one great pleasure of ignoble… Fame without name and glory withou… Whom no biographer befouls with pr… Who said of you “Defeated”? In th…
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
The last chapter has been concerned with the contention that orthodoxy is not only (as is often urged) the only safe guardian of morality or order, but is also the only logical guardian...
When the long grey lines came floo… We stood and drank of the last fre… They had led us back from the lost… And stilled us: and our gaping gun… The grey tribes flowed for ever fr…