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Go your seeking, soul. Mine the proven path of time’s for… Yours accordance with some mysteri… I am but your passion—haunted dwel… Bring what news you can,
When Wisdom tells me that the wor… Lost on the shoreless blue of God… I smile, and think, ‘For every ma… The world’s my ship, and I’m alon… And when he tells me that the worl…
Because the night was falling warm… Upon a golden day at April’s end, I thought; I will go up the hill… To find the face of him that I ha… And speak with him before his ghos…
And still they come and go: and th… That from the gloom I watch an en… Where wild or listless faces flick… With glad or grievous hearts I’ll… Because Time spins so fast, and t…
Along the wind—swept platform, pin… The travellers stand in pools of w… Offering themselves to morn’s long… The train’s due; porters trundle l… The train steams in, volleying res…
‘Fall in, that awkward squad, and… Attractive attitudes! Dress by th… The luminous rich colours that you… Have changed to hueless khaki in t… Magic? What’s magic got to do wit…
When I have heard small talk abou… I climb to bed; light my two candl… Consider what was said; and put as… What Such—a—one remarked and Some… They have spoken lightly of my dea…
O beauty doomed and perfect for an… Leaping along the verge of death a… You show me dauntless Youth that… Four long years past, discovering… You die but in our dreams, who wat…
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…
Tossed on the glittering air they… Whose voices make the emptiness of… A windy palace. Quavering from th… Of dawn, and bold with song at edg… They clutch their leafy pinnacles…
I was near the King that day. I s… And briskly scan the G.H.Q. disp… Thick—voiced, he read it out. (Hi… ‘This officer advanced with the fi… ‘And when our first objective had…
I’d heard fool—heroes brag of wher… With stories of the glories that t… But you, good simple soldier, seas… In woods and posts and crater—line… Who dodge remembered ‘crumps’ with…
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
In me, past, present, future meet To hold long chiding conference. My lusts usurp the present tense And strangle Reason in his seat. My loves leap through the future’s…