CITIES and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth
DIM dawn behind the tamarisks—the… As the women in the village grind… And the parrots seek the riverside… That the Day, the staring Eastern… Oh the white dust on the highway!…
WE’VE got the cholerer in camp—i… We’re dyin’ in the wilderness the… It’s before us, an’ be’ind us, an’… An’ the doctor’s just reported we’… Oh, strike your camp an’ go, the…
TO the Judge of Right and Wrong With Whom fulfilment lies Our purpose and our power belong, Our faith and sacrifice, Let Freedom’s Land rejoice!
China—going P. & O.'s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.'s. N.Y.K. and N.D.L.
THESE were my companions going f… (For Chil! Look you, for Chil!) Now come I to whistle them the en… (Chil! Vanguards of Chil!) Word they gave me overhead of quar…
NOW there is nothing wrong with m… Except—I think it’s called T.B. And that is why I have to lay Out in the garden all the day. Our garden is not very wide,
LAND of our Birth, we pledge to… Our love and toil in the years to… When we are grown and take our pla… As men and women with our race. Father in Heaven who lovest all,
THESE were our children who died… We have only the memory left of th… The price of our loss shall be pai… Neither the Alien nor Priest shal… But who shall return us the childr…
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,
Me that 'ave been what I’ve been… Me that 'ave gone where I’ve gone… Me that 'ave seen what I’ve seen… 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again,
OR ever the battered liners sank With their passengers to the dark, I was head of a Walworth Bank, And you were a grocer’s clerk. I was a dealer in stocks and share…
IF IT be pleasant to look on, st… Does not the Young Man try Its t… If She be pleasant to look on, wh… “Lo! She is pleasant to look on,… II.
UP CAME the young Centaur—colts… Curious awkward, afraid. Burrs on their hocks and their tai… Mobs and run up to the yard to be… Starting and shying at straws, wit…
I’VE A HEAD like a concertina:… I’ve a mouth like an old potato, a… But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’r… And I’m here in the Clink for a t… With a second—hand overcoat under…
OUR Lord Who did the Ox command To kneel to Judah’s King, He binds His frost upon the land, To ripen it for spring— To ripen it for spring, good sirs,
I’ve danced till my shoes are outw… From ten till the hours called sma… I’ve cantered with Beauty at morn… At even made love at the ball. Light Loves for five months were…
DELLIUS, that car which, night… Lightnings and thunders arm and sc… Tumultuous down the Appian Way— Be slow to urge. Though reckless Lydia bid thee fl…
NOT with an outcry to Allah nor… He answered his name at the muster… When the twin anklets were nipped… He brotherly greeted the armourers… Ere the sad dust of the marshalled…
THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo… But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do. Kiddies and grown—ups too—oo—oo,
CAIN and Abel were brothers born… (Koop—la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised c… (Koop—la! Come along! Co—hoe!) And Cain he farmed by the river—s…
BY THE Hoof of the Wild Goat u… From the cliff where she lay in th… Fell the Stone To the Tarn where the daylight is… So she fell from the light of the…
EYES aloft, over dangerous place… The children follow the butterflie… And, in the sweat of their upturne… Slash with a net at the empty skie… So it goes they fall amid brambles…
WHEN that great Kings return to… Or Emperors in their pride, Grief of a day shall fill a day, Because its creature died. But we—we reckon not with those
One grief on me is laid Each day of every year, Wherein no soul can aid, Whereof no soul can hear: Whereto no end is seen
O YE who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet—flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when “the heathen” pray To Buddha at Kamakura! To him the Way, the Law, apart,
IN the days of lace—ruffles, peru… Brown Bess was a partner whom non… An out—spoken, flinty—lipped, braz… With a habit of looking men straig… At Blenheim and Ramillies fops wo…
FOR things we never mention, For Art misunderstood — For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient tales’ renewing,
I was very well pleased with what… I reckoned myself no fool— Till I met with a maid on the Bro… That turned me back to school. Low down—low down!
MY father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so—holy spot – That very Rome— Crowned by all Time, all Art, all…