His fingers wake, and flutter up t… His eyes come open with a pull of… Helped by the yellow may—flowers b… A blind—cord drawls across the win… How smooth the floor of the ward i…
I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair. Along the wharves by the water—hou… And through the cavernous slaughte… I am the shadow that walks there. Yet I have flesh both firm and co…
Out there, we’ve walked quite frie… Sat down and eaten with him, cool… Pardoned his spilling mess—tins in… We’ve sniffed the green thick odou… Our eyes wept, but our courage did…
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…
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
It lieth low near merry England’s… Like a long—buried sin; and Engli… Forget that in its death their sir… And, like a sin, Time lays it bar… To tell of races wronged,
I saw his round mouth’s crimson de… Like a Sun, in his last deep hour… Watched the magnificent recession… Clouding, half gleam, half glower, And a last splendour burn the heav…
He dropped, —more sullenly than we… Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like… And none of us could kick him to h… —just blinked at my revolver, blea… —Didn’t appear to know a war was o…
'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…
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…
As bronze may be much beautified By lying in the dark damp soil, So men who fade in dust of warfare… Fairer, and sorrow blooms their so… Like pearls which noble women wear
After the blast of lightning from… The flourish of loud clouds, the… After the drums of time have rolle… And from the bronze west long retr… Shall Life renew these bodies? Of…
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting… And shivered in his ghastly suit o… Legless, sewn short at elbow. Thr… Voices of boys rang saddening like… Voices of play and pleasure after…
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…