(Mat. Prior)
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AS ADAM lay a—dreaming beneath… The Angel of the Earth came down,… But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed… Singing: —"Earth and Water, Air…
I HAVE a dream —a dreadful dream A dream that is never done, I watch a man go out of his mind, And he is My Mother’s Son. They pushed him into a Mental Hom…
The child of Mary Queen of Scots… A shifty mother’s shiftless son, Bred up among intrigues and plots, Learnèd in all things, wise in non… Ungainly, babbling, wasteful, weak…
THE Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each— This from her mountain—side, That from her burthened beach. They count their ships full tale—
EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE A. “I was a Have.” B. “I was a ‘… (Together.) “What hast thou given… A SERVANT We were together since the War be…
There’s a whisper down the field w… And the ricks stand grey to the su… Singing: ‘Over then, come over, f… ‘And your English summer’s done.’ You have heard the beat of the off…
TAKE of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath. Not the great nor well—bespoke,
FATHER, Mother, and Me Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea,
IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and th...
YOU mustn’t groom an Arab with a… You hadn’t ought to tension—spring… You couldn’t push a brumby fifty m… And drop him in a boiler—shed to c… I’ll sling you through six countie…
When the drums begin to beat Down the street, When the poles are fetched and guy… When the tight-rope’s stretched an… When the dance-girls make salaam,
THE eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o’ mornings on… And there kindles in my bosom An emotion chill and gruesome
THE careful text—books measure (Let all who build beware!) The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder
KING Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out of Lebanon
BROKE to every known mischance,… By the light sane joy of life, the… Furious in luxury, merciless in to… Terrible with strength that draws… Strictest judge of her own worth,…