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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: blunden, edmund Matches Found: 321 Blunden, Edmund Charles Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund 321 poems available by this author 11TH R.S.R. Poem Text First Line: How bright a dove's wing shows against the sky Last Line: Not one, but by the host for ever marches. Subject(s): World War I; First World War 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 Poem Text First Line: Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day Last Line: We crept in the tall grass and slept till noon. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO Poem Text First Line: No sooner was I come to this strange roof Last Line: But still, I saw a ghost, and lacked one child. Subject(s): Tokyo A BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Beyond the church there stands a bridge Last Line: "and the green weed's lazy beside his stone." Subject(s): Bridges; Time A BUDDING MORROW Poem Text First Line: When I woke, the sapphire sky Last Line: And laughed to have been mistaken. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A CONNOISSEUR Poem Text First Line: Presume not that gray idol with the scythe Last Line: To swell the mad collection of his loves. A COUNTRY GOD Poem Text First Line: When groping farms are lanterned up Last Line: And summer not to come again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A DAY REMORSEFUL Poem Text First Line: A day remorseful, heavy, dun Last Line: Its shadow and its sound. Subject(s): Remorse A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Unriddle this. Last night my dream Last Line: Batters to win the desperate sky. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A FADING PHANTOM Poem Text First Line: The bold sun like a merry lord Last Line: That now mere doubt flits by! A FARM NEAR ZILLEBEKE Poem Text First Line: Black clouds hide the moon, the amazement is gone Last Line: Black clouds hid the moon, tears blinded me more. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A FAVOURITE SCENE; RECALLED ON LOOKING AT BIRKET FOSTER'S LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: Hauntest thou so my waking and my sleeping Last Line: Where boding beauty sighs alas! Subject(s): Landscape; Paintings & Painters A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT Poem Text First Line: With blind eyes meeting the mist and moon Last Line: -- could summer betray you? Subject(s): World War I; First World War A JAPANESE EVENING Poem Text First Line: Round us the pines are darkness Last Line: At the end of the entertainment. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese A MORNING PIECE; WRITTEN IN ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: Lucky and pretty light! Smiling on me Last Line: To give me back those distant dead alive! A PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: When the young year is sweetest, when the year Last Line: That might be hushed, unless you come ere long. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A PSALM Poem Text First Line: O god, in whom my deepest being dwells Last Line: Hide not thyself, let first love prove not wrong. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A QUARTET ('THE MIKADO' AT CAMBRIDGE) Poem Text First Line: Four singers with a delphic seriousness Last Line: Their union in each swell and dying fall. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SUNRISE IN MARCH Poem Text First Line: While on my cheek the sour and savage wind Last Line: As though they had not dreamed of death all night. A SUPERSTITION REVISITED Poem Text First Line: While on the lavender by the door Last Line: Defied eternity. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A THOUGHT FROM SCHILLER Poem Text First Line: Evening falls: to numbered night Last Line: My spidery bridge sways over the falls. A TRANSCRIPTION Poem Text First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow." Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND' First Line: The sun's noon throne is hid in hazy cloud A VIGNETTE Poem Text First Line: Bronze noonlight domes the dim blue gloom Last Line: Far down the oakwood's bridle-path. A WATERPIECE Poem Text First Line: The wild-rose bush lets loll Last Line: Incomparably wise, the doom of man. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A YEOMAN Poem Text First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers A.G.A.V. Poem Text First Line: Rest you well among your race, you who cannot be dead Last Line: Vast tumult past, and the proud sense still of vast to-morrows to dare. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ACHRONOS Poem Text First Line: The trunks of trees which I knew glorious green Last Line: With the egyptian's first-born shares coeval death. Subject(s): Time AFTERWARDS Poem Text First Line: Those olden royal sunsettings Last Line: No circe charms. ALMSWOMAN Poem Text First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Friendship ALMSWOMEN Poem Text First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Last Line: Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Old Age; English AN ANCIENT GODDESS; IN TWO PICTURES Poem Text First Line: The time grows perilous; forth she comes once more Last Line: A moonlit sanctuary from time's worst powers? Subject(s): England; Landscape; English AN ANCIENT PATH Poem Text First Line: Rosy belief uplifts her spires Last Line: Come, my late and early love. AN ANNOTATION Poem Text First Line: Emblem of early seeking, early finding Last Line: So tossed you to the hooves of infamy? Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN INFANTRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Painfully writhed the few last weeds upon those houseless / uplands Last Line: Sunny as a may-day dance, along that spectral avenue. Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War ANOTHER ALTAR First Line: I am forgetfulness, I am that shadow ANOTHER JOURNEY FROM BETHUNE TO CUINCHY Poem Text First Line: I see you walking Last Line: My time for trench round. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ANOTHER SPRING Poem Text First Line: When lambs were come, who could be slow and sere? Last Line: That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English APRIL BYEWAY Poem Text First Line: Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend Last Line: The unseen friend, the one last friend in all the world. Subject(s): Friendship ART THOU GONE IN HASTE?' First Line: That I might watch the bells of wild bloom swing AT SENLIS ONCE Poem Text First Line: O how comely it was and how reviving Last Line: Sang as though nothing but joy came after! Subject(s): World War I; First World War AT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA First Line: Perched in a tower of this ancestral wall Last Line: To espy the ruseful raiders, and his mind %torn with sharp love of the home left far behind Subject(s): Great Wall, China AUGURY Poem Text First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait? Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English AUTUMN IN THE WEALD Poem Text First Line: Come, for here the lazy night Last Line: Alone with the mist I linger on. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods BATTALION IN REST Poem Text First Line: Some found an owl's nest in the hollow skull Last Line: Where stars new trembled with delight's design. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEHIND THE LINE Poem Text First Line: Treasure not so the forlorn days Last Line: Over the shades of shadows gone. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BELLS Poem Text First Line: What master singer, with what glory amazed Last Line: That unknown poet's masterpiece of bells. Subject(s): Bells BLEUE MAISON Poem Text First Line: Now to attune my dull soul, if I can Last Line: Pass the full sails of natural odysseys. BLUE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BROOK IN DROUGHT Poem Text First Line: The willow catkins fall on the muddy pool Last Line: This universe dried into sands and stones. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English BUILDING THE LIBRARY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY; NIGHT SCENE Poem Text First Line: Like men of fire, in painful night Last Line: For the great muse to come! Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Tokyo Imperial University; Library; Librarians BY CHANCTONBURY First Line: We shuddered on the blotched and wrinkled down Last Line: Vanishing fog-like in the foggy pall Subject(s): Airships BYROAD Poem Text First Line: Who knows not that sweet gloom in spring Last Line: And godhead glistens in those woods. CHANCES OF REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: Turn not from me Last Line: "into your verse." CHANGING MOON Poem Text First Line: The green east hagged with prowling storm Last Line: And where his useless gold and silver lie. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Moon; English CHINESE PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Ascend this path, whose stairway windings gleam Last Line: Once you command his secret, will not grudge your right. CHINESE POND Poem Text First Line: Chinese pond is quick with leeches Subject(s): Ponds; China CLARE'S GHOST Poem Text First Line: Pitch-dark night shuts in, and the rising gale Last Line: Lit with a burning deathless discontent. Subject(s): Ghosts CLEAR WEATHER Poem Text First Line: A cloudless day! With a keener line Last Line: A great transparent dragon-fly. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CLOUD-LIFE Poem Text First Line: Look with what titan majesty arise Last Line: Their single songs, and full-quired eloquence. Subject(s): Clouds CLOUDY JUNE Poem Text First Line: Above the hedge the spearman thistle towers Last Line: Nor tell me I am I. Subject(s): England; June; Landscape; English CONCERT PARTY: BUSSEBOOM Poem Text First Line: The stage was set, the house was packed Last Line: Were kicking men to death. Subject(s): World War I; First World War COTTAGE AT CHIGASAKI First Line: That well you drew from is the coldest drink Subject(s): Travel COUNTRY SALE Poem Text First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song. Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English DEAD LETTERS (T.L.H.) Poem Text First Line: There lay the letters of a hundred friends Last Line: Seemed friends that we had always known. Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets DEATH OF CHILDHOOD BELIEFS Poem Text First Line: There the puddled lonely lane Last Line: Crying armageddon near. Subject(s): Innocence DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: The beech leaves caught in a moment gust Last Line: Our casual anglian train. Subject(s): England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting DREAM ENCONTERS Poem Text First Line: The measureless houses of dreams Last Line: And all heaven with one heart. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares E.W.T.: ON THE DEATH OF HIS BETTY Poem Text First Line: And she is gone, whom, dream or truth Last Line: And death draws nigh, a friend. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EARLY AND LATE Poem Text First Line: How fondly still the grecian form Last Line: In easter rays! Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EASTERN TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: That flying angel's torrent cry Last Line: Of wisdom infinitely calm. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ELEGY Poem Text First Line: The chinese tombs / some, sqaures of shrubby trees, some, peaks and mounds Last Line: Ends those graves. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ENTANGLEMENT Poem Text First Line: That shower-silvery grass where the damson-flower drifted Last Line: On the dust-track unsignatured mile after mile. EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Happily through my years this small stream ran Last Line: Where with so strong a life you run and sing. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: There are four officers, this message says Last Line: Find mr. Wrestman. Subject(s): World War I; First World War EVENING MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Like a great bat's wing angled on the west Last Line: Uttered themselves even here when those still peaks hurled flame. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese EVENING MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: Now ragged clouds in the west are heaping Last Line: What poison pours she in slumber's ear? Subject(s): England; Landscape; English FAMILIARITY Poem Text First Line: Dance not your spectral dance at me Last Line: This foam-cold vale. FAR EAST Poem Text First Line: Old hamlets with your fragrant flowers Last Line: Now folded like the rest. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese FESTUBERT: THE OLD GERMAN LINE Poem Text First Line: Sparse mists of moonlight hurt our eyes Last Line: The gray rags fluttered on the dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FINE NATURE First Line: This fine nature clear Last Line: Amid my meadows cannot be %but ever kind and ever free Subject(s): World War Ii FIRST RHYMES Poem Text First Line: In the meadow by the mill Last Line: "when ""nature painted all things gay." Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FIRST SNOW Poem Text First Line: By the red chimney-pots the pigeons cower Last Line: Even his enemies sing! Subject(s): England; Landscape; Snow; English FLANDERS NOW Poem Text First Line: There, where before no master action struck Last Line: Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War FOR THERE IS NO HELP IN THEM Poem Text First Line: She lies on that white breast she loves, and well Last Line: So disenchanted and so sadly wise. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOREFATHERS Poem Text First Line: Here they went with smock and crook Last Line: Who made honey long ago. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Landscape; Heritage; Heredity; English FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Steal abroad, your time is come; doubt not once the new-blown / hour Last Line: To make new morning wild with flowers GLEANING Poem Text First Line: Along the baulk the grasses drenched in dews Last Line: With such small winnings more than satisfied. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English GOUZEAUCOURT: THE DECEITFUL CALM Poem Text First Line: How unpurposed, how inconsequential Last Line: That false mildness. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HARVEST Poem Text First Line: So there's my year, the twelvemonth duly told Last Line: And earth accuses none that goes among her stooks. HAWTHORN Poem Text First Line: Beneath that hawthorn shade the grass will hardly grow Last Line: Sit in this same sanctuary. Subject(s): England; Hawthorn; Landscape; English HIGH SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Now all the birds are flown, the first, the second brood Last Line: Talks forgotten battles with a tear in his eye. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Summer; English II PETER II 22 Poem Text First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: Trenches in the moonlight, in the lulling moonlight Last Line: For the moon's interpretation. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: Earth is a quicksand; yon square tower Last Line: Thy tiny skull? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churchyards; Graveyards IN FESTUBERT Poem Text First Line: Now every thing that shadowy thought Last Line: And sear no more with second sight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN MY TIME First Line: Touched with a certain silver light IN THE MARGIN First Line: While few men praise and hardly more defend IN WILTSHIRE; SUGGESTED BY POINTS OF SIMILARITY WITH THE SOMME COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Fairest of valleys, in this full-bloomed night Last Line: Among old valley-tombs of flesh and blood and years. Subject(s): Wiltshire, England INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD Poem Text First Line: Forgotten streams, yet wishful to be known Last Line: The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. Subject(s): World War I; First World War INHERITANCE Poem Text First Line: Ah! What magic was that, and what the mystery Last Line: These the chance-come charm that bade me worship then? INLAND SEA Poem Text First Line: Here in the moonlit sea Last Line: Like apprehension's baffling destiny. Subject(s): Japan; Sea; Japanese; Ocean INTERVAL Poem Text First Line: When the cloudy evening shows Last Line: Suddenly unconfined as air. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY Poem Text First Line: I am only the phrase Last Line: To my winding-sheet haunt me! Subject(s): Mortality INTO THE SALIENT Poem Text First Line: Sallows like heads in polynesia Last Line: Into seven days of country where you come out any door. Subject(s): World War I; First World War JANUARY FULL MOON, YPRES Poem Text First Line: Vantaged snow on the gray pilasters Last Line: To someone crunching through the frozen snows. Subject(s): World War I; First World War JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Along the relic of an ancient ride Last Line: We laughed at time, nor wished a better place. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English KINGFISHER Poem Text First Line: The eastern god with natural blessing gleams Last Line: The kingfisher returns. Subject(s): England; Kingfishers; Landscape; English LA QUINQUE RUE Poem Text First Line: O road in dizzy moonlight bleak and blue Last Line: To trim roofs and cropped fields; the error's mine. Subject(s): World War I; First World War LARK DESCENDING First Line: A singing firework; the sun's darling LATE LIGHT First Line: Come to me when the welling wind assails the wood with a sea-like roar Last Line: Penitential low recall Subject(s): Love LEISURE Poem Text First Line: Listen, and lose not the sweet luring cry Last Line: And mercy's music be for ever dumb. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Leisure; English LES HALLES D'YPRES Poem Text First Line: A tangle of iron rods and spluttered beams Last Line: And flicker in playful flight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War LIBERTINE Poem Text First Line: In summer-time when haymaking's there Last Line: And a dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English LONELY LOVE First Line: I love to see those loving and beloved Last Line: Who, loving, walking slowly, saw not me, %but shared with me the strangest happiness Subject(s): Love MALEFACTORS Poem Text First Line: Nailed to these green laths long ago Last Line: Dreary as a passing-bell. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MASKS OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: Then the lark, his singing on a sudden done Last Line: The clods roll their brown heads, all golgotha in wrath. Subject(s): Time MEMORIAL, 1914-1918 First Line: Against this lantern, shrill, alone Subject(s): Soldiers MEMORY OF KENT First Line: Kentish hamlets grey and old Subject(s): Kent, England MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime MISUNDERSTANDINGS Poem Text First Line: In the bright shallow of this broadened dyke Last Line: But to her frost-cold eggs she ne'er returned. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MOLE CATCHER Poem Text First Line: With coat like any mole's, as soft and black Last Line: There's not a peal in england sounds so well. Subject(s): Animals; England; Labor & Laborers; Landscape; Moles; English; Work; Workers MONT DE CASSEL Poem Text First Line: Here on the sunnier scarp of the hill let us rest Last Line: The thunder-throated cannonade booms on. Subject(s): World War I; First World War MUFFLED Poem Text First Line: Black ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge Last Line: When even the owls and bats are hesitating. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MY WINDOW Poem Text First Line: The young moon, refreshed from her lynns of light Last Line: "to hear them where the moon draws light affirm their new-seen ""all is one." NATURE DISPLAYED Poem Text First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets NIGHT-WIND Poem Text First Line: Along the lifted line of sombre green Last Line: The carven botch of an idolater. Subject(s): Wind NO CONTINUING CITY Poem Text First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NOVEMBER MORNING Poem Text First Line: From the night storm sad wakes the winter day Last Line: And sharded pots and rusty curry-combs. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English NOW OR NEVER Poem Text First Line: Bright fleet slow shadow! Puzzling guide Last Line: I gaze, tremble and pass. OLD HOMES Poem Text First Line: O happiest village! How I turned to you Last Line: And in your pastoral still my life has rest. Subject(s): England; Home; Landscape; English OLD PLEASURES DESERTED Poem Text First Line: Cobwebs and kisks have crept Last Line: May-morning bright. OLD REMEDIES Poem Text First Line: The yardman, he with the coins on his watch-chain, stood Last Line: Unable now to touch the case? OMEN Poem Text First Line: Now the day is dead, I cried Last Line: I shut my doors up for the night. ON A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Poem Text First Line: Proud is assembly, and the anthem proud Last Line: Into one chant, one radiance and election. ON A SMALL DOG Poem Text First Line: Animula vagula blandula, foundling dear Last Line: And so to sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Tokyo ON MR. FREDERICK PORTER'S ROOM OF PICTURES, 1930 Poem Text First Line: The sun's your radiant painter, he Last Line: Like these, and life's a pictured room. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON READING THAT THE REBUILDING OF YPRES APPROACHED COMPLETION Poem Text First Line: I hear you now, I hear you, shy perpetual companion Last Line: "is the wind in the rampart trees." Subject(s): World War I; First World War ON THE PORTRAIT OF A COLONEL; G.H.H. Poem Text First Line: When now at this stern depth and shade of soul Last Line: This man's commanding trust will be my sight. Subject(s): Soldiers ON TURNING A STONE Poem Text First Line: Trolls and pixies unbeknown Last Line: Scared to rout by shining sun. Subject(s): Supernatural ORNAMENTATIONS Poem Text First Line: The curving cranes with serpent necks Last Line: Thought spies one rose or daffodil. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ORNITHOPOLIS Poem Text First Line: Not your least glory, many-gloried wren Last Line: With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold. Subject(s): Birds PARABLE Poem Text First Line: Wide as the world is, music abounds Last Line: Reveals new song to heaven. PERCH FISHING Poem Text First Line: On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew Last Line: They did together, never more to do. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Perch (fish); English PILLBOX Poem Text First Line: Just see what's happening, worley! - worley rose Last Line: To see this life so spirited away. Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREMATURE REJOICING Poem Text First Line: What's that over there? Last Line: That's where the difficulty is, over there. Subject(s): World War I; First World War PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY Poem Text First Line: My soul, dread not the pestilence that hags Last Line: The black fiend leaps brick-red as life's last picture goes. Subject(s): World War I; First World War PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean. Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones PRODIGAL Poem Text First Line: The stream runs on with speed and leisure too Last Line: The splendid fish, the violet day. RECOGNITION Poem Text First Line: Old friend, I know you line by line Last Line: But first we'll make this day, this godlike day our friend. Subject(s): World War I; First World War RECOLLECTINS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Book, lie you there: such borrowed wings Last Line: Nought can remove. Subject(s): Hospitals RECOVERY First Line: From the dark mood's control RELEASE Poem Text First Line: Pour forth, shrill sparkling brook, your deathless wave Last Line: And find you, luck divine! Rippling through time and space. RELIQUES Poem Text First Line: Map me the world, and watch you mark Last Line: Will square the circle one bright day. REPORT ON EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: I have been young, and now am not too old Last Line: Over there are faith, life, virtue in the sun. Subject(s): God; Love; War RESENTIENTS Poem Text First Line: Heart of great hopes, glance of arriving day Last Line: "come angelizing all that grin not ""is it thus?" RETURN Poem Text First Line: Deed and event of prouder stature Last Line: Of spirits infinitely kind. RETURN OF THE NATIVE Poem Text First Line: About the ramparts, quiet as a mother Last Line: Incapable to stir a weed or moth. Subject(s): World War I; First World War REUNION IN WAR Poem Text First Line: The windmill in his smock of white Last Line: In dead men's envied bones. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ROSA MUNDI Poem Text First Line: There in a solitude of silence slips Last Line: -- but like a spy the shadow passed their enfilade. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English RUE DU BOIS Poem Text First Line: Harmonious trees, whose lit and lissom graces Last Line: Will never give an aspen to the spring. Subject(s): Love; Trees RUIN Poem Text First Line: Beside the lonely tower I gaze for thee Last Line: Of knife-like shapes, that only famine find. Subject(s): Ruins RURAL ECONOMY (1917) Poem Text First Line: There was winter in those woods Last Line: Shot up a roaring harvest-home. Subject(s): World War I; First World War RUSTIC WREATH Poem Text First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English SEEN IN TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Too bold a light suits not all qualities Last Line: Responding calm and safe to that unstaring face. SHEEPBELLS Poem Text First Line: Moonsweet the summer evening locks Last Line: Where the woodlark sings. Subject(s): Bells SHEET LIGHTNING Poem Text First Line: When on the green the rag-tag game had stopt Last Line: With fear. Joe beat its brain out on the wheel. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Evening has brought the glow-worm to the green Last Line: And gently leads the yoes that are with young. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; English SHOOTING STAR AT HARVEST Poem Text First Line: A bell softer than silence Last Line: To live in rapture new. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Stars; English SICK BED Poem Text First Line: Half dead with fever here in bed I sprawl Last Line: My face in pillows, praying for merciful sleep. Subject(s): Books; Sickness; Reading; Illness SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SOLUTIONS Poem Text First Line: The swallow flew like lightning over the green Last Line: Beheaded it for blooming insolence. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SOME TALK OF PEACE - First Line: Dark war, exploding loud mephitic mines Subject(s): Soldiers SONNET Poem Text First Line: The song itself! Thus the bright-templed rhyme Last Line: In this black ink his love shall still shine bright. Subject(s): Publishing; Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Publishers SPRING NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Through the smothered air the wicker finds Last Line: As if day's host of flowers were a moment's whim. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English STANE STREET Poem Text First Line: Mown, strown are the grayhead grasses Last Line: The ringer ceasing, lingers long. STORM AT HOPTIME Poem Text First Line: The hoptime came with sun and shower Subject(s): Harvest; Storms; Hop Gardens STRANGE PERSPECTIVE Poem Text First Line: Happy the herd is that in the heat of summer Last Line: Hustling the staid herd into hazardous shadows. SUMMER RAINSTORM Poem Text First Line: Sweet conversations, woodland incantations Last Line: And fields made lovely with the living god. Subject(s): Rain THAMES GULLS Poem Text First Line: Beautiful it is to see Last Line: And inaccessible as dido's phantom. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls THE AFTERMATH Poem Text First Line: Swift away the century flies Last Line: Where the kind dove would never brood. Subject(s): Time THE AGE OF HERBERT & VAUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Then it was faith and fairness Last Line: At once he stood rewarded! Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Poetry & Poets; Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695) THE ANCRE AT HAMEL: AFTERWARDS Poem Text First Line: Where tongues were loud and hearts were light Last Line: And shared its wounded moan. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE AUTHOR OF 'THE GREAT ILLUSION' Poem Text First Line: Some men, we say, are sent before their time Last Line: The rose shall dominate the wilderness. Subject(s): Angell, Norman (1872-1962); Peace THE AUTHOR'S LAST WORDS TO HIS STUDENTS Poem Text First Line: Forgive what I, adventuring highest themes Last Line: The voice of your devotion. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Tokyo Imperial University; Educators; Professors THE AVENUE Poem Text First Line: Up the long colonnade I press, and strive Last Line: To seek and serve the beauty that must die. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE BAKER'S VAN Poem Text First Line: Village children shouted shrill Last Line: Was still in a brown study seen. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; England; Landscape; English THE BARN Poem Text First Line: Rain-sunken roof, grown green and thin Last Line: And strikes its kindness cold. Subject(s): Barns THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND Poem Text First Line: Dim stars like snowflakes are fluttering in heaven Last Line: But I know isolation. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE BROOK Poem Text First Line: Up, my jewel! Let's away Last Line: Stolen into the gulf for ever! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE CANAL Poem Text First Line: Where so dark and still Last Line: Swift and seeing? Subject(s): Canals THE CHANCE Poem Text First Line: Mind and soul a halting brook Last Line: To naked havock, hurl them all! THE CHARM Poem Text First Line: The voice of innocence I heard Last Line: I'll hear the voice of innocence. Subject(s): Innocence THE CHILD'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: I came to the churchyard where pretty joy lies Last Line: Her sweet dawning smile and her violet eye! Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: The village spoke: you come again Last Line: "I answered, ""all my ways led here." THE CORRELATION Poem Text First Line: Again that yellow dusk or light along Last Line: As consonant with the power as its bare trees. THE COVERT Poem Text First Line: I always thought to find my love Last Line: As ever hailed the spring. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE CROWN INN Poem Text First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE DAIMYO'S POND Poem Text First Line: The swallows come on swift and daring wings Last Line: Who knows that incantation, and will tell? Subject(s): Japan; Lakes; Japanese; Pools; Ponds THE DEATH-MASK OF JOHN CLARE Poem Text First Line: Kind was the hand that at the last Last Line: Your prison with a smile. Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864) THE DEEPER FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: Were all eyes changed, were even poetry cold Last Line: And well content that nature should bury me. THE DEEPS Poem Text First Line: I ask but little; and I ask far more Last Line: And with those red lips peace herself have smiled. THE DOOMED OAK; IN IMITATION OF ANATOLE FRANCE Poem Text First Line: In the warm wood bedipped with rosy day Last Line: And brings the bisson mildews hurrying on. Subject(s): France, Anatole (1844-1924); Oak Trees THE DRIED MILLPOND Poem Text First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE EARTH HATH BUBBLES' Poem Text First Line: Come they no more, those ecstasies of earth THE ECCENTRIC Poem Text First Line: His sleeping or his waking mind Last Line: Clear at ten thousand miles! THE ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: So talk ran on, and turning like a lane Last Line: Seeing below calm trees calm waters gliding. THE EMBRYO Poem Text First Line: That grey-green river pouring past Last Line: The swans through air anew. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE ENGLISH POETS Poem Text First Line: I looked across the fields and saw a light Last Line: The spirit fire that keeps our england young? Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English THE ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: In the stubble blossoms Last Line: But here no sign is found. Subject(s): Pansies THE ESTRANGEMENT Poem Text First Line: Dim through cloud vails the moonlight trembles down Last Line: Shrills malice at the soul grown strange in france. Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War THE FESTUBERT SHRINE Poem Text First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FLOWER-GATHERERS Poem Text First Line: Where a brook with lisping tongue Last Line: Forgets he had a course to run. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Mothers; Destiny THE FOREST Poem Text First Line: Among the golden groves when june walketh there Last Line: But not till now was I with the woods again alone. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods THE GEOGRAPHER'S GLORY; OR, THE GLOBE IN 1730 Poem Text First Line: When through the windows buzzed the way-lost bee Last Line: Those fruitful wonders of the natural world. Subject(s): Geography; Past THE GIANT PUFFBALL Poem Text First Line: From what proud star I know not, but I found Last Line: Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Puffballs; English THE GODS OF THE EARTH BENEATH Poem Text First Line: I am the god of things that burrow and creep Last Line: And then's the end of all her mirth. Subject(s): Animals THE IDLERS Poem Text First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care. Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies THE IMMOLATION Poem Text First Line: It is but open the door of this walled den Last Line: Enough for us to lantern our own night. THE INVIOLATE Poem Text First Line: There on the white pacific shore the pines Last Line: Swan-like between the mountain and the moon. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese THE KILN Poem Text First Line: Beside the creek where seldom oar or sail Last Line: Of once grave seers, her iris woos the wind. Subject(s): Furnaces; Ruins; Kilns THE LAST OF AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: From cloudy shapes of trees that cluster the hills Last Line: And cash upon his garden palisades. Subject(s): Autumn; England; Landscape; Seasons; Fall; English THE LAST RAY Poem Text First Line: Now the world grows weak again, the sinewed woods are all / astrain Last Line: And sneers as one great laugh or gust huffs down the writhing avenue. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE LATE STAND-TO Poem Text First Line: I thought of cottages nigh brooks Last Line: I gave stand-to! The east was red. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LONG TRUCE Poem Text First Line: Rooks in black constellation slowly wheeling Last Line: Only in sweet content for england vying. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE MARCH BEE Poem Text First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun. Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs THE MASQUERADE Poem Text First Line: Here winds / the chiding chiming brook caught in two minds Last Line: With ringed lights dabbling and twirling the brambles and to yourself a-singing and a-talking. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Masquerades; English THE MATCH Poem Text First Line: In a round cavern of glass, in steely water Last Line: The difficult dumb-show of my generation. THE MAY DAY GARLAND Poem Text First Line: Though folks no more go maying Last Line: Hid up his scythe in flowers! Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English THE MEADOW STREAM Poem Text First Line: Young joy to me is as the miser's gold Last Line: And oaks, and brooks, and fishes' human eyes. THE MESSAGE Poem Text First Line: Then in petals of the air Last Line: Was the secret's rosy proving. THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS Poem Text First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass. Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English THE NEW MOON Poem Text First Line: New-silver-crescented the moon forth came Last Line: Of grotesque caliph or blotched caliban. Subject(s): Moon THE NUN AT COURT Poem Text First Line: With what voluptuous and distorted care Last Line: Of luring love, and one that knew not la valliere. Subject(s): La Valliere, Francois De (1644-1710); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Versailles, Frances THE OLD YEAR Poem Text First Line: The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing Last Line: Remaining. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE PAGODA Poem Text First Line: From the knoll of beeches peeping Last Line: Seems once more to be my own. THE PASSER-BY Poem Text First Line: The listless year goes dimly down Last Line: "once ended ""never, never part""!" Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE PASTURE POND Poem Text First Line: By the pasture pond alone Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE PIKE Poem Text First Line: From shadows of rich oaks outpeer Last Line: And the miller that opens the hatch stands amazed at the whirl in the water. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pike (fish); English THE POOR MAN'S PIG Poem Text First Line: Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green Last Line: And sulky as a child when her play's done. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pigs; English; Boars; Hogs THE PROPHET Poem Text First Line: It is a country Last Line: This sometime seer, crass but cassandra-like. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PUZZLE Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo with a strong flute Last Line: God's freezing love. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Once we three in nara walked Last Line: Than the plain joy, three friends walked there. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese THE RESIGNATION Poem Text First Line: Live in that land, fair spirit and my friend Last Line: That palest face among them was my love. THE RIVER HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Set in a circlet of silver rain Last Line: And warns the wandering foot away. THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING Poem Text First Line: A thick hot haze had choked the valley grounds Last Line: That ripens into blue, nor knows the storm is by. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods THE SECRET Poem Text First Line: The starbeam lights, a touch, a breath Last Line: Storms with young force the general land. THE SENTRY'S MISTAKE Poem Text First Line: The chapel at the crossways bore no scar Last Line: "made him once more ""the terror of the hun." Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy Last Line: In silence stumbling through the glade. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SIGHING TIME Poem Text First Line: The sighing time, the sighing time! Last Line: The sighing time, the sighing time. Subject(s): Sighs; Death; Dead, The THE SILVER BIRD OF HERNDYKE MILL Poem Text First Line: By herndyke mill there haunts, folks tell Last Line: To hear her makes a man's blood chill. Subject(s): Birds; Mills & Millers THE SOUTH-WEST WIND Poem Text First Line: We stood by the idle weir Last Line: Now all is still as death. Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPELL Poem Text First Line: Loud the wind leaps through the night and fills the valley with his wings Last Line: Were, to rove the wild lands over. THE STILL HOUR Poem Text First Line: As in the silent darkening room I lay Last Line: Whence one deep moaning, one deep moaning came. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE STORM Poem Text First Line: Sky beyond words! Elysian-field Last Line: Our hopes ran out for sympathy? Subject(s): Storms THE STUDY Poem Text First Line: While I sit penning plans of dead affairs Last Line: Know they are for the singing and the sun! Subject(s): Home THE SUNKEN LANE Poem Text First Line: Behind the meadow where the windmill stood Last Line: The jutting stones stood whitened with the sun. THE SUNLIT VALE Poem Text First Line: I saw the sunlit vale, and the pastoral fairy-tale Last Line: That other does not smile. THE SURVIVAL Poem Text First Line: To-day's house makes to-morrow's road Last Line: Sustain to-morrow's road. THE TIME IS GONE Poem Text First Line: The time is gone when we could throw Last Line: In such a happy place to shed such bitter tears. Subject(s): Aging THE TROUBLED SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: Said god, go, spirit, thou hast served me well Last Line: Some weariness, while time smiles to himself. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE UNCHANGEABLE Poem Text First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY Poem Text First Line: Manda's twig-like arms Last Line: The snarl, the first, the knife in the sun! Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE UNQUIET EYE Poem Text First Line: Secret and soft as a summer cloud that blooms Last Line: To win my heart a glory without end. THE VETERAN Poem Text First Line: He stumbles silver-haired among his bees Last Line: His bellman cockerel crying the first round. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Veterans; English THE VISITOR Poem Text First Line: Suddenly the other side of this world wide Last Line: Pilgrimage singing in the stranger's mind. Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE WAGGONER Poem Text First Line: The old waggon drudges through the miry lane Last Line: As centuries past itself would do. Variant Title(s): The Waggoner, 1919 Subject(s): England; Landscape; Wagons; English THE WARTONS AND OTHER EARLY ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE-POETS Poem Text First Line: Mild hearts! And modest as the evening bell Last Line: Shall join with you and hear may-morning chime. Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry & Poets; Warton, Joseph (1722-1800); Warton, Thomas (1728-1790) THE WATCHERS Poem Text First Line: I heard the challenge 'who goes there?' Last Line: When I at last am seen and known. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE WATERMILL Poem Text First Line: I'll rise at midnight and I'll rove Last Line: And still love's moment sees them there. Subject(s): Mills & Millers THE WELCOME Poem Text First Line: He'd scarcely come from leave and london Last Line: While any of those who were there have tongues. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE YELLOWHAMMER Poem Text First Line: With rural admixture of shrill and sweet Last Line: While from the totter-grass gazes the humble hare. Subject(s): Birds THE ZONNEBEKE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Morning, if this late withered light can claim Last Line: And freeze you back with that one hope, disdain. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THEIR VERY MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Hear, o hear / they were as the welling waters Last Line: Tears of joy and music's rally. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THERE IS A COUNTRY' First Line: While thus the black night rushes down in rain THIEPVAL WOOD Poem Text First Line: The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows Last Line: Nor the blue javelin-flame of thunderous noons strike fear. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THIRD YPRES Poem Text First Line: Triumph! How strange, how strong had triumph come Last Line: The dead men from that chaos, or my soul? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THOUGHTS OF THOMAS HARDY First Line: Are you looking for someone, you who come pattering Last Line: Your particular fate and experience, poor leaf Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry And Poets THUS FAR Poem Text First Line: In glades where frost is ambushed in the ferns Last Line: Answered, would leave but wood and water there. Subject(s): Spring THY DREAMS OMINOUS Poem Text First Line: Blest is the man that sees and hears Last Line: Through timeless orgies. TIMBER First Line: In the avenues of yesterday Last Line: The word that has whitened the traveller's hair Subject(s): Environment; Trees TIME OF ROSES Poem Text First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English TO A SPIRIT (1) Poem Text First Line: Dear (thus I dare), how I have longed Last Line: What, if not love, I cannot tell. TO A SPIRIT (2) Poem Text First Line: The young spring night in all her virtue walks Last Line: Poor cheating folly, should I wait on you? Subject(s): Love TO CLARE Poem Text First Line: Thou toddling babe, none looks upon but loves Last Line: On a still sunny morning of winter we see. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO JOY Poem Text First Line: Is not this enough for moan Last Line: Alone on that most wintry wild? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO NATURE Poem Text First Line: O my stern mother, aye, in that name loved Last Line: Receives, and bids be calm as it is calm. Subject(s): Nature TO OUR CATCHMENT BOARD First Line: Startling all spirits, dreams, and secrets TRANSPORT UP AT YPRES Poem Text First Line: The thoroughfares that seem so dead to daylight passers-by Last Line: While overhead with fleering light stare down those withered suns. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TREE IN THE GOODS YARD First Line: So sigh, that hearkening pasts arouse Last Line: Tombed worlds for me Subject(s): Environment; Trees TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD Poem Text First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral Last Line: Of that dead army driving by. Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War TRENCH NOMENCLATURE Poem Text First Line: Genius named them, as I live! What but genius could compress Last Line: From the fabled vase the genie in his shattering horror came. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRENCH RAID NEAR HOOGE Poem Text First Line: At an hour before the rosy-fingered Last Line: Lit earth and heaven. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TRUST Poem Text First Line: Trust is a trembling thing Last Line: So speaking with your enemies in the gate. Subject(s): Trust TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: There's something in the air, he said Last Line: "and still ""we're going south, man,"" deadly near." Subject(s): World War I; First World War UNDER A THOUSAND WORDS Poem Text First Line: A thousand words on courage. -this request Last Line: "but you call this instinct." Subject(s): Courage; Writing & Writers; Valor; Bravery UNEASY PEACE Poem Text First Line: Late into the lulling night the pickers toiled Last Line: While men were meditating war with which the world still bleeds. Subject(s): Peace UNTEACHABLE Poem Text First Line: To some, thoughts flying into futurity's cloud Last Line: To eat his bit of dinner, out of the sun. VALUES Poem Text First Line: Till darkness lays a hand on these gray eyes Last Line: This sprig of green, in which an angel shows. VERY JEWELS IN THEIR FAIR ESTATE' First Line: Love's a curious praiser VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: What happy place we travel through! Last Line: Whose steps are wounds -- what happy place? Subject(s): England; Facades; Landscape; Villages; English; Appearances VILLAGE GREEN Poem Text First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English VILLAGE LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: These dim-lamped cabins leaning upon the gulf of oceanic night Last Line: Ten times as wise, ten thousand fools. VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 Poem Text First Line: And all her silken flanks with garlands drest Last Line: Is scarcely right; this red should have been much duller. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War VOICES BY A RIVER Poem Text First Line: What hearest thou? Last Line: "that veils me now." WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS Poem Text First Line: Heaven is clouded, mists of rain Last Line: That twice has passed before my sight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WAR'S PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: Through the tender amaranthine domes Last Line: Strange stars, and dream-like sounds, changed speech and law are ours. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WARNING TO TROOPS Poem Text First Line: What soldier guessed that where the stream descended Last Line: Lest perilous silence gnaw thee evermore. Subject(s): Soldiers WASTE GROUND Poem Text First Line: The wheat crowds close, the land falls sharp Last Line: The neighbours of a niche for fable. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATCHING RUNNING WATER Poem Text First Line: How swift and smooth this water glinters past! Last Line: My spirit seems in readiness to die. Subject(s): Water WATER MOMENT Poem Text First Line: The silver eel slips through the waving weeds Last Line: The silver death writhes with the chosen one. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATER SPORT Poem Text First Line: Come all who hear our song say yalding bells Last Line: Shine like an angel to the mill boy's sight. Subject(s): Boats; England; Landscape; English WHAT IS WINTER? First Line: The haze upon the meadow WILD CHERRY TREE Poem Text First Line: Here be rural graces, sylvan places Last Line: A long long sigh to the darling tree. Subject(s): Cherry Trees WILDERNESS Poem Text First Line: On lonely kinton green all day Last Line: Down to the bull for pipe and glass. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WILL O' THE WISP Poem Text First Line: From choked morass I leap and run Last Line: Content in swamps despised to dwell! Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WINTER NIGHTS; A BACKWARD LOOK Poem Text First Line: Strange chord! The weir-pool's tussling dance Last Line: Are the heart's invincible law. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTER: EAST ANGLIA Poem Text First Line: In a frosty sunset Last Line: And hard as winter dies. Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WOULD YOU RETURN? Poem Text First Line: Poppies never brighter shone, and never sweeter smelled the hay Last Line: The sun pale peering at the shag-haired storm that swooped on avalon! Subject(s): Avalon (legend) ZERO Poem Text First Line: O rosy red, o torrent splendour Last Line: It's plain we were born for this, naught else. Subject(s): World War I; First World War ZILLEBEKE BROOK Poem Text First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War |
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