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Across the land a faint blue veil… Seems hung; the woods wear yet arr… Till frost shall make them flame;… The drooping cherry orchards of O… Like mournful pennons hang their s…
I’ve listened: and all the sounds… Were music,—wind, and stream, and… With youth who sang from hill to h… I’ve listened: my heart is hungry… I’ve looked: the morning world was…
Everyone suddenly burst out singin… And I was filled with such deligh… As prisoned birds must find in fre… Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on…
Four days the earth was rent and t… By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared not sleep, Sweating, and listening for the im…
When I’m asleep, dreaming and lul… They come, the homeless ones, the… While the dim charging breakers of… Bellow and drone and rumble overhe… Out of the gloom they gather about…
In barns we crouch, and under stac… Harking the storm that rides a hur… Up the arched sky, and speeds quic… With growling thunder loosed in fo… That echoes crashing thro’ the slu…
When old Noah stared across the f… Sky and water melted into one Looking—glass of shifting tides an… Mountain—tops were few: the ship w… All the morn old Noah marvelled g…
The rank stench of those bodies ha… And I remember things I’d best fo… For now we’ve marched to a green,… Twelve miles from battering guns:… Brown lines of tents are hives for…
He woke; the clank and racket of t… Kept time with angry throbbings in… Then for a while he lapsed and dro… At last he lifted his bewildered e… And blinked, and rolled them sidel…
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quel… Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell. My dreaming spirit will not heed
I found him in the guard—room at t… From the blind darkness I had hea… And blundered in. With puzzled, p… A sergeant watched him; it was no… To stop it; for he howled and beat…
The glorying forest shakes and swi… Of boughs that dip and strain; you… Beckon and shift like lissom creat… While the blown beechwood streams… Rooted in steadfast calm, grey ste…
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…
You were glad to—night: and now yo… Flushed in the dark, you put your… But as you fall asleep I hear you… Those tired sweet drowsy words we… Sleep well: for I can follow you,…
From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozar… The substance of my dreams took fi… You built cathedrals in my heart, And lit my pinnacled desire. You were the ardour and the bright