#English #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Song of the Soldiers What of the faith and fire within… Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray,
PART I ‘I have a Love I love too well Where Dunkery frowns on Exon Moo… I have a Love I love too well, To whom, ere she was mine,
“A woman for whom great gods might… I said, and kissed her there: And then I thought of the other f… And of how charms outwear. I thought of the first with her ea…
"No—not where I shall make my own… But dig his grave just by The woman’s with the initialed sto… As near as he can lie - After whose death he seemed to ail…
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles an… Half asleep as they stalk. II
A forward rush by the lamp in the… And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the woman whom I had promised to meet in the thaw… On that harbour-bridge; nor was I…
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles an… Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame
When the hamlet hailed a birth Judy used to cry: When she heard our christening mir… She would kneel and sigh. She was crazed, we knew, and we
O sweet To—morrow!— After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow
Queer are the ways of a man I kno… He comes and stands In a careworn craze, And looks at the sands And in the seaward haze
In years defaced and lost, Two sat here, transport-tossed, Lit by a living love The wilted world knew nothing of: Scared momently
Under a daisied bank There stands a rich red ruminating… And hard against her flank A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends her… The flowery river-ooze
UPON a poet’s page I wrote Of old two letters of her name; Part seemed she of the effulgent t… Whence that high singer’s rapture… —When now I turn the leaf the sam…
Here’s one in whom Nature feared—… Eclipse while he lived, and deceas…
“Percussus sum sicut foenum, et ar… —Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: