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Dark clouds are smouldering into r… While down the craters morning bur… The dying soldier shifts his head To watch the glory that returns; He lifts his fingers toward the sk…
Sleep; and my song shall build abo… A paradise of dimness. You shall… The folding of tired wings; and pe… Throned in your silence: and one h… Summer, and midnight, and immensit…
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…
All night the flares go up; the D… And beats upon the dark with furio… And, stung to rage by his own dart… Reaches with grappling coils from… He lusts to break the loveliness o…
Adam, a brown old vulture in the r… Shivered below his wind—whipped ol… Huddling sharp chin on scarred and… He moaned and mumbled to his darke… ‘He was the grandest of them all w…
Voices moving about in the quiet h… Thud of feet and a muffled shuttin… Everyone yawning. Only the clocks… Out in the night there’s autumn—sm… Crowded with whispering trees; acr…
Dusk in the rain—soaked garden, And dark the house within. A door creaked: someone was early To watch the dawn begin. But he stole away like a thief
I am that fantasy which race has w… Of mundane chance—material. I am… Paeaned by the senses five like be… I am that cramped and crumbling ho… Where mansoul weaves the secret we…
Does it matter?—losing your legs? For people will always be kind, And you need not show that you min… When others come in after hunting To gobble their muffins and eggs.
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…
Lost in the swamp and welter of th… He flounders off the duck—boards;… Each flash and spouting crash,—eac… When gloom reveals the streaming r… Heavily, blindly on. And, while h…
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…
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…
I’ve had a good bump round; my lit… Refused the brook first time, Then jumped it prime; And ran out at the double, But of course
Groping along the tunnel, step by… He winked his prying torch with pa… From side to side, and sniffed the… Tins, boxes, bottles, shapes too v… A mirror smashed, the mattress fro…