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Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by th… Kindness of wooed and wooer Seems shame to their love pure. O Love, your eyes lose lure
Between the brown hands of a serve… The silver cross was offered to be… The men came up, lugubrious, but n… And knelt reluctantly, half—prejud… (And kissing, kissed the emblem of…
We’d found an old Boche dug—out,… And gave us hell, for shell on fra… Hammered on top, but never quite b… Rain, guttering down in waterfalls… Kept slush waist high, that rising…
'You! What d’you mean by this?' I… ‘You dare come on parade like this… 'Please, sir, it’s—' ‘Old yer mou… ‘I takes ’is name, sir?'—'Please,… Some days 'confined to camp’ he go…
Who are these? Why sit they here… Wherefore rock they, purgatorial s… Drooping tongues from jays that sl… Baring teeth that leer like skulls… Stroke on stroke of pain,—but what…
It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder
Suddenly night crushed out the day… Her remnants over cloud—peaks, thu… Then fell a stillness such as hark… When far—gone dead return upon the… There watched I for the Dead; but…
A vague pearl, a wan pearl You showed me once; I peered thro… Until my mind was fog—bound in tha… Blue diamonds, cold diamonds You shook before me, so that out o…
Our brains ache, in the merciless… Wearied we keep awake because the… Low drooping flares confuse our me… Worried by silence, sentries whisp… But nothing happens.
Cramped in that funnelled hole, th… Open a jagged rim around; a yawn Of death’s jaws, which had all but… Stuck in the bottom of his throat… They were in one of many mouths of…
Schoolmistress Having, with bold Horatius, stamp… And waved a final swashing arabesq… O’er the brave days of old, she ce… Slapped her Macaulay back upon th…
The beautiful, the fair, the elega… Is that which pleases us, says Ka… Without a thought of interest or a… I used to watch men when they spok… And measure their enthusiasm. One
The browns, the olives, and the ye… And were swept up to heaven; where… Each dawn and set of sun till Chr… And when the land lay pale for the… Fell back, and down the snow—drift…
Not this week nor this month dare… In languour under lime trees or sm… Love must not kiss my face pale th… My lips, parting, shall drink spac… Strong meats be all my hunger; my…
Be slowly lifted up, thou long bla… Great gun towering towards Heaven… Sway steep against them, and for y… Huge imprecations like a blasting… Reach at that Arrogance which nee…