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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: de la mare, walter Matches Found: 1291 De La Mare, Walter John Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter 1291 poems available by this author #NAME? First Line: Little pollie pillikins Last Line: Polllie, spare a crumb!' Subject(s): Mice ...'MR. BLANK, IT APPEARS, WAS A WRITER OF SHOCKERS'... First Line: The fire had drowsed to a sullen heat Last Line: Have we ,mapped out a 'plot' round a similar case!' ...ALL GONE...' First Line: Age takes in pitiless hands Last Line: That's what they say to me! 29-FEB First Line: Odd, waif-like day, the changeling of Last Line: Seize thy prerogative! A FIDDLE Poem Text First Line: The mild noon air of spring again Last Line: Forgets his maker in the made?' A POOR NATURAL Poem Text First Line: Here lieth a poor natural Last Line: Wherein to attire a natural. Subject(s): Epitaphs A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: When with day's woes night haunts wake-weary eyes Last Line: For the happy, the beautiful, the good, the wise? Subject(s): Prayer A ROBIN Poem Text First Line: Ghost-grey the fall of night Subject(s): Robins A SIGN Poem Text First Line: How shall I know when the end of things is coming? Last Line: And the end of things coming. A SONG OF ENCHANTMENT Poem Text First Line: A song of enchantment I sang me there Last Line: On the wood and the pool and the elder tree. A TRUE-BLUE BROADSIDE OF '14 Poem Text First Line: And what's the news, mr. Sergeant, what news, my soldier man?' Last Line: With a leetle more broth than he meant to spare 'twixt petersburg and france.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War A WIDOW'S WEEDS Poem Text First Line: A poor old widow in her weeds Last Line: A poor old widow in her weeds. A-TISHOO Poem Text First Line: Sneeze, pretty: sneeze, dainty Last Line: A-tishoo!' ABANDONED CHURCH First Line: Roofless and eyeless, weed-sodden, dank, old, cold Last Line: Lambs bleated from their fold ABSALOM First Line: Vain, proud, rebellious prince, thy treacherous hair Last Line: The loveliest still is thine ABSENCE (1) First Line: When thou art absent Last Line: By sorrow bestead Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE (2) First Line: What, autumn, friend! And she not yet back? Last Line: With, 'there's one goodbye must be the last.' Subject(s): Absence ACCOMPANIMENT First Line: The man in the hat (whom you see in the picture) Last Line: Troll out an amen ere they part for the night ADIEU First Line: Had these eyes never seen you Last Line: Would cry, false! AFRAID First Line: Here lies, but seven years old, or little maid Last Line: And when nor moon nor stars do, shine, draw near! AFTERMATH First Line: How strange that victory Last Line: Which had almost ceased to beat! AGE Poem Text First Line: This ugly old crone Last Line: Like a sea -- the storm gone. AGE AND CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: She stooped with serious eyes Last Line: Summoning me. AGES AGO Poem Text First Line: Launcelot loved guinevere Last Line: And give his thinking grace. AH, MOMOTOMBO! First Line: Ah, momotombo, would I might Last Line: I can't refrain a smile AH, STRANGER, BREATHE A SIGH AHKH First Line: At full moon in cold khamchatka Last Line: Who can tell? ALAS (1) First Line: Alas, dear wife Last Line: To rest with thee ALAS (2) Poem Text First Line: One moment take thy rest Last Line: Sighing, alas! ALAS, ALACK! Poem Text First Line: Ann, ann! / come! Quick as you can! Last Line: And sank him back. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: It was the great alexander Last Line: Of the sea-maids clear? ALICE HEW Poem Text First Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew! Last Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew! Subject(s): Epitaphs ALICE RODD Poem Text First Line: Here lyeth our infant, alice rodd Last Line: And now we weepe no more than we forget. Subject(s): Epitaphs ALILCE CASS Poem Text First Line: My mother bore me Last Line: Of its youthful soul. Subject(s): Epitaphs ALL BUT BLIND ALL HALLOWE'EN First Line: It was not with delight Last Line: Hieing off home ALL HOT' First Line: Brooding he stands Last Line: Can ever hope to find him! ALL SWEET FLOWERS ALL THAT'S PAST Poem Text First Line: Very old are the woods Last Line: Of amaranth lie. Subject(s): Past ALL THE FUN First Line: Here's all the fun of the fair! Come buy! Last Line: The gypsy-boy in the van ALL THE WAY First Line: All the way from adam Last Line: In our orchard, now ALONE (1) Poem Text First Line: A very old woman Last Line: In the hollow wall. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALONE (2) Poem Text First Line: The abode of the nightingale is bare Last Line: It is winter. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ALONE (3) Poem Text First Line: No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam Last Line: Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness ALULVAN Poem Text First Line: The sun is clear of bird and cloud Last Line: The doom of lone alulvan!' Subject(s): Banshees AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Here lies a most beautiful lady Last Line: This lady of the west country? Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Last, stone, a little yet Last Line: Sharing in solitude her dreams with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence ANALYSTS' First Line: They too came nature's way Last Line: By strum - strum - strumming on one note, called sex ANATOMY Poem Text First Line: By chance my fingers, resting on my face Last Line: How much death does: and yet can do no more. AND SO TO BED First Line: Night-night, my precious!'; 'sweet dreams, sweet!' Last Line: Then turned to face night's terrors overhead AND THERE SHE IS (ON THE OTHER SIDE) AND THERE, MAYBE TO MOCK THE EYE Last Line: How rational is the honey bee! AND WHEN AT LAST I JOURNEY Last Line: And me the slut you say ANDY BATTLE'S AND NOD'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho! Last Line: And waits for his sorrowful end. ANDY BATTLE'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Voice without a body Last Line: Waiting and -- alone! ANGEL First Line: Oh, now, alexander's angel Last Line: Heaven reflected in thy face! ANN HARDS Poem Text First Line: They took me in death dim Last Line: Who but an infant was. Subject(s): Epitaphs ANN POVERTY Poem Text First Line: Stranger, here lies Last Line: Poverty. Subject(s): Epitaphs ANN'S AUNT AND THE BEAR First Line: It filled ann's aunt maria with rage Last Line: They might have fed the bear on ann ANN, UPON THE STROKE OF THREE ANOTHER SPRING First Line: What though the first pure snowdrop wilt and die? Last Line: Love will make lovely. Then another spring! ANOTHER TONGUE First Line: Well, I know not whether Last Line: They seem to be syllabling of paradise! ANOTHER WASHINGTON First Line: Homo? Construe!' the stern-faced usher said Last Line: And sighed in deep distress ANSWER First Line: When the love-bird leaves her nest Last Line: Unless in earth's green breast ANTIQUES First Line: Those quaint old worn-out words! Last Line: Why, even their meanings now are obsolete APLE CHARM First Line: I plucked an apple, sleek and red Last Line: Was truest unto me APPLE-FALL First Line: Rosy the blossom that breaks in may Last Line: Of the prickly bramble APRIL Poem Text First Line: Come, then, with showers; I love thy cloudy face Last Line: Above the waves' grave diapasoning. APRIL MOON Poem Text First Line: Roses are sweet to smell and see Last Line: The solitude, the fear. ARABIA Poem Text First Line: Far are the shades of arabia Last Line: They have stolen his wits away.' Subject(s): Arabian Peninsula ARABY Poem Text First Line: Dark-browed sailor, tell me now Last Line: Ah, heart-beguiling araby! ARE YOU ASLEP? THEN LISTEN, DREAMER First Line: Are you aslep? Then listen, dreamer, I Last Line: Out of you waking dark would shine on me? ARE YOU SO LOVELY? First Line: Are you so lovely? Why, a drop of rain Last Line: When life itself were dross, you gone from me ARGUMENT First Line: Why, then, if love is all there is need to give Last Line: Heart answered with a sigh ARIEL First Line: This lad, when but a child of six Last Line: One might have answered - prospero! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On One Whole Played Ariel In His Yout ARIEL First Line: Ariel! Ariel! - %but the glittering moon Last Line: When the bright one goes ARITHMETIC First Line: Those twittering swallows, hawking between the ricks Last Line: Four fork-tailed fledgelings, and the answer - six! ARROGANCE First Line: I saw bleak arrogance, with brows of brass Last Line: And sawdust trickled from his wounded side ARROWS First Line: All night love lay on stella's breast Last Line: To leave his arrows there? AS I DID ROVE Poem Text First Line: As I did rove in blinded night Last Line: A 'wildered bird. AS I WENT TO THE WELL-HEAD Last Line: And a foaming of sray.' AS LUCY WENT A-WALKING Poem Text First Line: As lucy went a-walking one morning cold and fine Last Line: Some witch has been a-walking in the fields in front of me.' AS SOON AS EVER TWILIGHT COMES ASLEEP First Line: Sister with sister, dark and fair Last Line: Descends an empty stair ASRAFEL HOLT Poem Text First Line: Here is buried a miser Last Line: When all earth's else fails! Subject(s): Epitaphs ASSIGNATION First Line: Echoes of voices stilled may linger on Last Line: In secret symbol, and painted by a dream! ASTRAY First Line: This is not the place for thee AT EASE First Line: Most wounds can time repair Last Line: And the soul within is safe from damnation, %since it is dead AT LAST First Line: A mound in a corner Last Line: In the silence of night AT THE KEYHOLE Poem Text First Line: Grill me some bones,' said the cobbler Last Line: Grill me some bones!' AT THE ZOO First Line: Cowled with a news-sheet in his asphalt cage Last Line: There showed small semblance of a missing link! AT WAR First Line: A world at war: and I sit here at peace! Last Line: How dread a shambles were my waking mind! AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: There is a wind where the rose was Last Line: Silence where hope was. AWAKE! Poem Text First Line: Why hath the rose faded and fallen, yet these eyes have not seen? Last Line: Or corrupt in thy grave -- all heaven around thee. AWAY First Line: There is no sorrow Last Line: Your place left vacant, %you not there Subject(s): Death AWAY GO WE First Line: One, two, three Last Line: Sweet, and low BABEL First Line: The sea washes england Last Line: Gropes his way BAH! First Line: When I chanced to look over the wall in the glade Last Line: And I don't think they ought to say 'bah!' BANQUO Poem Text First Line: What dost thou here far from thy native place? Last Line: Horror enthroned lit with insanest light! BARDS First Line: My aged friend, miss wilkinson Last Line: William was then aged sixty-four %and samuel sixty-two Subject(s): Bards BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE! BE VERY QUIET Poem Text First Line: Be very quiet now Last Line: In this shadow deep! Subject(s): Epitaphs BEAD MAT First Line: We had cliimbed the last steep flight of stairs Last Line: Flew through the spray BEFORE DAWN Poem Text First Line: Dim-berried is the mistletoe Last Line: Breathes, spring is here! BEFORE YOU CAME First Line: Before you came, the earth to me seemed wrapt Last Line: Did ceaselessly resound BEGGAR'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Now all the roads to london town Last Line: Snow's fall'n deep. BELATED First Line: Once gay, now sad; remote - and dear Last Line: Think of the lightless journey thither - you away! BENEATH A MOTIONLESS YEW First Line: Beneath a motionless yew, and tower Last Line: To wash the stains of time away BENIGHTED First Line: Frail crescent moon, seven times I bow my head Last Line: Or just a child's, in play with the unseen? BERRIES Poem Text First Line: There was an old woman Last Line: From wicking to weep. BETRAYAL Poem Text First Line: She will not die, they say Last Line: All blind, and blind. BEWARE! Poem Text First Line: An ominous bird sang from its branch Last Line: Who walks with her.' BEWITCHED Poem Text First Line: I have heard a lady this night Last Line: A stranger to my kin. BEYOND First Line: On such an evening - still; and crystalline Last Line: And echo sights from even the silent wire BIRD First Line: As poor old biddie Last Line: Gone was old biddie too BIRDS IN WINTER First Line: I know not what small winter birds these are Last Line: And they disdained my share BIRTH OF VENUS First Line: The tide lapped high, blue, tranquil and profound Last Line: Stayed, broke, and cried in ecstasy her name BISHOP WINTERBOURNE First Line: The reverend william winterbourne Last Line: That echoes through the athenaeum BITTER WATERS Poem Text First Line: In a dense wood, a drear wood Last Line: On the trees that are there. BLACKBIRDS First Line: In april, when these orchards blow Last Line: Or is it some wild blackbird in the ripe red fruit? BLACKBIRDS First Line: There was an old man, in reproof Last Line: The merrier they in his cherries BLIND First Line: His squalid beard floats on the wavering wind Last Line: But, in your pity, be not over-bold! BLIND BOY (2) First Line: A spider her silken gossamer Last Line: Its recompense in his face BLINDMAN'S IN First Line: Applecumjockaby, blindfold ye! Last Line: Twenty soot-black rooks there be.' BLONDIN First Line: With clinging dainty catlike tread Last Line: Where little else but danger is BLOW, NORTHERN WIND First Line: Blow, northern wind; fall snow Last Line: For us, my friend BLUEBELLS Poem Text First Line: Where the bluebells and the wind are Last Line: And the linnets call. Subject(s): Bluebells BOMBED HOUSE First Line: Daughters of joy lived here Last Line: They ghost the abandoned street BONES First Line: Said mr. Smith, 'I really cannot %tell you, dr. Jones Last Line: He slowly moved away BONNET First Line: There was a young man in a hat Last Line: And his own half-concealed in her bonnet BONUM OMEN First Line: As we sailed out of london river Last Line: And a lo lay lone BOOKS First Line: Books! - %for the heart to brood on; books for peace Last Line: And pines in vain; for it is poetry BOOKS First Line: A boy called jack, as I've been told Last Line: There's not much harm in printer's ink BORDER BIRD First Line: As if a voice had callled, I woke Last Line: Swept up into the gold of day, %was gone BOTH BARRELS First Line: If one can make it difficult Last Line: What makes philistia furious BOTTLE First Line: Of green and hexagonal glass Last Line: The abandoned, the thronged, the watched, the unshared - %awaiting - I! BOURNE First Line: Rebellious heart, why still regret so much Last Line: And every grief be reconciled in sleep BREAD AND CHERRIES Poem Text First Line: Cherries, ripe cherries!' Last Line: To eat with their bread. BREAK OF MORNING First Line: Sound the invisible trumps. In circuit vast Last Line: Not thine to see the son of morning rise BRIBE First Line: Ev'n should I give you all I have Last Line: Can light with even hint of love one loveless human face BRIGHT LIFE Poem Text First Line: Come now,' I said, 'put off these webs of death Last Line: Thy pride in rapture of life's dwelling-place!' BROOK First Line: Here, in a little fall Last Line: As may some praeternatural dream %in sleep? BROTHER AND SISTER First Line: A turn of head, that searching light Last Line: Whatever chanced to me BRUEGHEL'S WINTER First Line: Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green Last Line: Who squandered here life's mystery Subject(s): Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings And Painters BUCK BUCK First Line: Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hic? Last Line: Betsy bedlam, tippety-town-end - little dick BUN First Line: The muffin and the crumpet are Last Line: He takes the bun BUNCHES OF GRAPES Poem Text First Line: Bunches of grapes,' says timothy Last Line: For me,' says jane. Subject(s): Children; Likes & Dislikes; Wishes; Childhood BUNNY RABBIT First Line: Bunny creeps out and caresses his nose BURNING GLASS: A PORTRAIT First Line: Old: yet unchanged; - still pottering in his thoughts Last Line: And scarce can bear it when the sun goes in BURNING GLASS: THE SCARECROW First Line: In the abandoned orchard-on a pole Last Line: What would'st thou answer now? BURNING LETTER First Line: The saffron flames, edged with that marvellous blue Last Line: Its wax-celled honeycomb no whit less sweet! BURNING-GLASS First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Last Line: I am thy long-lost son.' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BUT OH, MY DEAR First Line: Hearts that too wildly beat Last Line: It is to laugh! BUT WHAT WE WEAR - O DEARIE ME! Last Line: A brave little body bunched up inside Subject(s): Clothing And Dress BUTTERFLIES First Line: Plato to his utopia Last Line: The muses' love BUTTONS First Line: There was an old skinflint of hitching Last Line: Anthropophagy reigns in the kitchen BY ORDER! First Line: Slant sunshine and these naked fields once more Last Line: Dusk, and a baffling sign-board - 'by order, fate.' CAGE (2) First Line: Thou angel face! - like a small exquisite cage Last Line: What death would do in setting free the bird CAKE AND SACK Poem Text First Line: Old king caraway Last Line: For king caraway!' CANDLE First Line: Day unto day CAPTAIN LEAN Poem Text First Line: Out of the east a hurricane Last Line: Howsoever the billows roll! CAPTIVE (1) First Line: I twined a net; I drove a stake; I laid a glittering bait Last Line: And hear my captive grieve? CAPTIVE (2) First Line: When gloaming droops Last Line: Wildly, insanely brood CASCA Poem Text First Line: Butchers are honest though their agile knives Last Line: White as the lily. CAW First Line: Ho, ho, ho, ho! Last Line: Has changed a world that's green to white!' CECIL Poem Text First Line: Ye little elves, who haunt sweet dells Last Line: And return to us no more. CELESTIAL LIBRARY First Line: The secrets of all hearts', I read. And sighed Last Line: These contain only thine.' CHALLENGE First Line: I speak, none listens; but I hear CHANGELING (2) First Line: Come in the dark did I Last Line: Now all is well CHART First Line: That mute small face, but twelve hours here Last Line: And wiser far than rameses' CHERRY TREES First Line: Under pure skies of april blue I stood Last Line: Boughs thick with blossom, or inch-deep in snow CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: Clapping her platter stood plump bess Last Line: They came at bessie's call. CHILD ASLEEP First Line: Angel of words, in vain I have striven with thee Last Line: And in how small a space! CHILD'S SONG First Line: A voice says, come! Last Line: That voice call, come! CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: A pinch of spice, a crust of fairy bread Last Line: How sweet a 'you', how wonderful an 'I'! CHINA CAT First Line: You never stir, and heaven forbid Last Line: Once did a questing dog delude CHINESE POT First Line: Sunsets a myriad have flamed and faded CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: Dark is the hour, long the night Last Line: This is the birthday of the sun Subject(s): Christmas CHRYSTOPHER ORCHERDSON ' Poem Text First Line: Here restes ye boddie of one Last Line: Not oures, but goddes waye! Subject(s): Epitaphs CLAVICHORD First Line: Hearken! Tiny, clear, discrete Last Line: It all but lovely as silence is CLEAR EYES Poem Text First Line: Clear eyes do dim at last Last Line: It loves not, nor grieves. COALS First Line: In drowsy fit Last Line: Dies away COLD TO BOSOM Poem Text First Line: There's a dark tree and a sad tree Last Line: Where the locks lay of her lover. COME First Line: Shrill trills the bird concealed in leaves Last Line: On zephyr faint with thyme COME - GONE First Line: Gone the snowdrop - comes the crocus Last Line: Gone's the sweetness of the may COME ALL YOU YOUNG MEN, WITH YOUR WICKED WAYS COME WHAT COME MAY First Line: Come what come may; go what go will Last Line: So long as one tries to be just? COME! Poem Text First Line: From an island of the sea Last Line: Come, come away!' COMFORT First Line: As I mused by the hearthside Last Line: And me in my fur-about %on the warm hearthstone COMPANY First Line: There must be ghosts, I think, in this old house Last Line: Wells suddenly up within me....Then is gone CORNER First Line: Good news to tell! Last Line: Younger, younger, younger... %old mister jones CORPORAL PYM Poem Text First Line: This quiet mound beneath Last Line: Nor death of him. Subject(s): Epitaphs COUP DE GRACE Poem Text First Line: So malice sharp'd his pen, and nibbled it Last Line: That pierced thee, silent, in th'unanswering grave! COURAGE First Line: O heart, hold thee secure Last Line: Shatter ev'n their reality %in thy poor fall! CRAZED Poem Text First Line: I know a pool where nightshade preens Last Line: High on the windy hill. CREEK First Line: Where that dark water is Last Line: A zephyr's sigh CROPS First Line: Farmer giles has cut his rye Last Line: Farmer weary's cut his throat CRUMBS First Line: You little birds, I bring my crumbs Last Line: And every pool lies still as stone Subject(s): Birds CUPID KEPT IN First Line: When life's wild noisy boys were out of school Last Line: The question simpler, or himself more wise? DAISY First Line: Oh, saw I there Last Line: Shining in that dark place DAME HICKORY Poem Text First Line: Dame hickory, dame hickory Last Line: You cry like a wolf, you do, and trouble poor me.' DAUGHTER TO MOTHER First Line: I owe you life. Would I had owed you too DAWN First Line: Near, far, unearthly, break the birds Last Line: With dewdrops drenched in day DAY First Line: Wherefore, then, up I went full soon Last Line: Hold in its span all night, all day! DAYBREAK First Line: After the dark of night Last Line: The sun's in the sky! DAYBREAK First Line: The curtains of the solemn night Last Line: And empty is every chair DAYDREAM First Line: In a daydream, all alone Last Line: And vanish out of sight! DAYS AND MOMENTS First Line: The drowsy earth, craving the quiet of night Last Line: Now seems, alas! Thou fleeting one, life's happiest day DE MORTUIS First Line: Now that - his last word said Last Line: And , not ev'n solely his, that now ingenuous grin DE PROFUNDIS First Line: The metallic weight of iron Last Line: Why...The last time we met. I brought you some %flowers!' DEAD JAY First Line: A witless, pert, bedizened fop Last Line: That miracle of blue! DEADALIVE First Line: My inward world is strangely still DEAR BROTHER HORSE First Line: I woke. Without, the full moon's light Last Line: And left the empty night to me DEAR DELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Youngling fair, and dear delight Last Line: Tis love hath thee in keeping. DEAR SIR First Line: There was an old rabbi of ur Last Line: We can but infer the rabbi of ur %enquired of miss beaulieu DEFEAT First Line: The way on high burned white beneath the sun Last Line: The mockless victory that defeat may be DELIVERANCE First Line: Starched-capped, implacable, through the slow dark %night Last Line: And sighed again - for pity, grief, and love DERELICT First Line: As captain fleet, aloof, looked out Last Line: Skeleton, sword and gun DESDEMONA Poem Text First Line: A stony tomb guards one who simply dreams Last Line: To take her captive at the key of heaven! DESPISE IT AS I MAY Last Line: Praise that sun's heaven for his last afterglow DIG NOT MY GRAVE O'ER DEEP DILEMMA First Line: Un-numbered souls, life's day at end Last Line: To face this world again, as child, or ghost DISGUISE First Line: Dream-haunted face DITCH First Line: Masked by that brilliant weed's deceitful green Last Line: Dared not, by smiling, show the evil there DITTY Poem Text First Line: The goodman said Last Line: In april woods to stray! DIVIDED First Line: Two spheres on meeting may so softly collide Last Line: Not even a lynx could see a gap at all DIVINE DELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Dark, dark this mind, if ever in vain it rove Last Line: Though all its all lie but 'twixt birth and death. DONE FOR First Line: Old ben bailey %he's been and done Last Line: Bound for ben bailey's %smoking pot Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits DOUBLE DUTCH First Line: That crafty cat, a buf-black siamese Last Line: A language no man knows DOVE First Line: How often, these hours, have I heard the monotonous crool %of a dove Last Line: So dark with disquietude seem? And what is it sorowing of? Subject(s): Birds; Doves DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY Poem Text First Line: Down-adown-derry, / sweet annie maroon Last Line: Singing down-adown-derry. DR. BROWNING AT BREAKFAST First Line: Will ye take a scrambled egg, dr. Browning, with your toast Last Line: Cocoa!!! Mrs. Green, cocoa!!!' DR. MOLE First Line: That love's our earthly light DR. WILLIAM HARVEY First Line: This mild geographer set not his mark Last Line: In fools the circulation of ideas DREAM First Line: Idle I sat - my book upon my knee Last Line: Than any knowledge I had vestige of DREAM-SONG Poem Text First Line: Sunlight, moonlight Last Line: In a world of wonders far away. DREAM: SEA First Line: Ay, once I dreamed of an age-wide sea Subject(s): Immortality DREAMER First Line: The woods were still. No breath of air Last Line: And dreamed of you DREAMLALND First Line: Annie has run to the mill dam Last Line: Annie is down by the weir DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Be gentle, o hands of a child Last Line: Return again, come!' DREAMS First Line: Ev'n one who has little travelled in Last Line: For idle days than dreamless nights DRUGGED Poem Text First Line: Inert in his chair Last Line: Reality. DRY AUGUST BURNED First Line: Dry aguust burned. A harvest hare Last Line: Please, may I go and see it skinned?' DUCKS First Line: See, now, a child must this way come Last Line: Whence life itself doth rill DUET First Line: There was a young lady of tring Last Line: Or the other not bellow in kello DULL BOY First Line: Work?' well, not work - this stubborn desperate quest Last Line: Will the lost child in me cry bravely, 'play'? DUNCE (2) First Line: Come, child! Say, nine times' seven!' dunce was I Last Line: Nine sevens, sire? - the grand climacteric.' DUSK First Line: There was and old person named fish Last Line: Who'd descried in the twilight a finn DUST First Line: Sweet sovereign lord of this so pined-for spring Last Line: Were scant to bring to bloom a single flower DUST TO DUST Poem Text First Line: Heavenly archer, bend thy bow Last Line: Heavenly archer, loose thy string. EARTH FOLK Poem Text First Line: The cat she walks on padded claws Last Line: Where never prince hath journeyed yet. ECHO Poem Text First Line: Who called?' I said, and the words Last Line: Wailed to and fro. Subject(s): Echoes ECHO Poem Text First Line: Who called?' I said, and the words Subject(s): Echoes ECHO First Line: How like your mother, child!' I said Subject(s): Echoes ECHO First Line: Seven sweet notes Last Line: Sighed back them all ECHOES First Line: The sea laments Last Line: Of strange and lonely seas EDEN First Line: I wonder if from noah's ark Last Line: Hearkened - as all poor humans must EDGES First Line: Think you your heart is safely at rest Last Line: Since no such dream comes true EEKA, NEEKA First Line: Eeka, neeka, leeka, lee %here's a lock without a key Last Line: And live to knock another day! Subject(s): Imagination EEL First Line: There was an old person of dover Last Line: With a sister in deal ELIZA DREW AND JAMES HANNEWAY Poem Text First Line: Here rest in peace eliza drew and james hanneway Last Line: They'll not laugh less sweetly who learn to laugh last. Subject(s): Epitaphs ELIZABETH IS MY QUEEN Last Line: Countless as sand! EMMANUEL Poem Text First Line: Here lies a strangely serious child Last Line: Smiling -- that he is so sound asleep. Subject(s): Epitaphs EMPTY First Line: The house by the sand dunes Last Line: And dumb the buoyed bell EMPTY CHARIOT First Line: Amid the wood's delicious green ENCOUNTER First Line: Twixt dream and wake we wandered on Last Line: And - frowning - turned on me! ENGLAND (1) First Line: All that is dearest to me thou didst give Subject(s): England ENGLAND (2) Poem Text First Line: No lovelier hills than thine have laid Last Line: And thine my darkness be. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND OVER ENGLISH DOWNS First Line: Here, long ere kings to batle rode Last Line: Where the shepherds talk ENGLISH FINGERPOSTS First Line: A stubborn, barbarous race!' the alien vows Last Line: Ay, and had jourdain scanned our fingerposts?' ENIGMA First Line: Happy love'! When shall that be? ENIGMAS First Line: I weep within; my thoughts are mute Last Line: Its perilous blossoming past! ENOUGH First Line: Pleasure early, pleasure late Last Line: For to find the golden mean! ENVOY (1) Poem Text First Line: Child, do you love the flower Last Line: With as loveful surmise. ENVOY (2) Poem Text First Line: There clung three roses to a stem Last Line: Then, child, begone! ENVOY (3) Poem Text First Line: Long - long is time, though books be brief Last Line: Nod's dark-eyed, beauteous water-midden! EPILOGUE First Line: Pining to live I was constrained to die, Last Line: As if all contraries were reconciled.' EPISODES First Line: Oh! Raining! Look!' she whispered - %gazing out Last Line: Just now! - at harvest home!' EPITAPH First Line: Would'st liefer be alive, or dead? Last Line: Within the ambit of the grave ERGO First Line: There was an old man said, I am Last Line: And therefore I think!' ESMERALDA First Line: Plump mrs. Brown, we may suppose Last Line: Her esmeralda's getting wet! ESTHER! CAME WHISPER FROM MY BED Last Line: Mocking me in the gloom ESTRANGED Poem Text First Line: No one was with me there Last Line: Went grieved away. EUPHRASY First Line: Hope, wreathed with roses Last Line: Which them had forsook EUREKA First Line: Lost in a dream last night was I Last Line: I found them very good EUREKA! First Line: We failed to see, when we began Last Line: Yes - we've found out the way!' EVEN AS THE HEART First Line: Even as the heart - how stark the cost! Last Line: Dies never to rise again EVEN IN THE GRAVE Poem Text First Line: I laid my inventory at the hand Last Line: Even in the grave thou wilt have thyself,' he said. EVEN ROSEMARY Poem Text First Line: I have seen a grave this day Last Line: Eyes ev'n heaven shall open not! EVENING Poem Text First Line: When twilight darkens, and one by one Last Line: Fills earth with wonder and mystery. EVENING First Line: The little cirque, horizon-wide Last Line: At the last slumber's nod, what then? EVENING First Line: Happy was edward in the love Last Line: And much refresht's the feline EVER First Line: Ever, ever %stir and shiver Last Line: Moon, reeds, rushes, %dream you of? EXILE Poem Text First Line: Had the gods loved me I had lain Last Line: Aches with their memory. EYES Poem Text First Line: O strange devices that alone divide Last Line: Can only see. FACES First Line: The sweep has such a sooty face Last Line: Their father with delight FAINT MUSIC First Line: The meteor's arc of quiet; a voiceless rain Last Line: All sounds to silence come FAITHLESS Poem Text First Line: The words you said grow faint Last Line: Your memory unperplexed. FALSE DAWN First Line: My old friend, lord o., owned a parcel of land Last Line: Sighs; stares at the ocean - and hastens away FALSE GODS First Line: From gods of other men, fastidious heart Last Line: Its, 'why, my god, have I forsaken thee.' FALSTAFF Poem Text First Line: Twas in a tavern that with old age stooped Last Line: What simple mouse brought such a mountain forth?' FANNY MEADOWS Poem Text First Line: One, two, three' Last Line: And -- out goes she!' Subject(s): Epitaphs FARE WELL Poem Text First Line: When I lie where shades of darkness Last Line: In other days. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The FAREWELL First Line: Ah me! That pen should be where mine is Last Line: Farewell! All blessings! I am gone FAT WOMAN First Line: Massed on her creaseless black Last Line: Reeks a mock rose FATHER AND SON First Line: Do you remember that evening, how, lost in silence Last Line: And evening's faint dying breezes muttered, 'it's true, it's true.' FEAR Poem Text First Line: I know where lurk Last Line: The day!' Subject(s): Fear FEAST First Line: Crackers, meringues, and pink blomonge Last Line: Crusts, hemp-seed, marrow-bones and cheese FEATHER First Line: A feather, a feather! Last Line: Slain with an arrow? FEBRUARY First Line: Whence is the secret of these skies Last Line: That heaven-sent life steals back again! FECKLESS DINNER-PARTY First Line: Who are we waiting for?' 'soup burnt?' '...Eight - ' Last Line: He who misled them all - the butler, toomes FEY First Line: The branch of that oak jutting into the air FIDDLER First Line: Once was a fiddler. Play could he Last Line: But a bird sings on in the almond tree Subject(s): Musical Instruments FIELD First Line: Yes, there was once a batle here Last Line: There the last stand was made FINIS First Line: The mouse is here Last Line: The tip of his snout and his tail's FINISHED WITH First Line: Not less alone than when alone Last Line: That the night-wind's sigh was gone FIRE First Line: Loud roared the flames Last Line: Who had stolen up FISH First Line: In june it must be very nice Last Line: The musings of the fishmonger FIVE EYES Poem Text First Line: In hans' old mill his three black cats Last Line: Jekkel, and jessup, and one-eyed jill. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIVE OF US First Line: Five of us small merry ones FLEETING First Line: The late wind failed; high on the hill Last Line: Be freshed with that sweet love! FLEETING: MEMORY First Line: When summer heat has drowsed the day Last Line: Double the joys of faithless man! FLEETING: THE OWL First Line: The door-bell jangled in evening's peace Last Line: A-hoo! A-hoo! %a-hoo! Subject(s): Birds; Owls FLOOD WATER First Line: What saw I - crouching by that pool of water Last Line: That startled naiad - as the train swept by? FLOTSAM Poem Text First Line: Screamed the far sea-mew. On the mirroring sands Last Line: A still dirge echoing on from dream to dream. FLY (2) First Line: There was once an old parson named next Last Line: It may, in due season, reside in a bishop FOG Poem Text First Line: Stagnant this wintry gloom. Afar Last Line: Bequeathed him fantasy? FOL DOL DO Poem Text First Line: Fol, dol, do, and a south wind a-blowing o Last Line: In merry merry month of may. FOLLOW THE WORLD FOR A CHILD First Line: Now is the gentle moon on high FOR ALL THE GRIEF Poem Text First Line: For all the grief I have given with words Last Line: In the dark of the end. FOR MOPSA First Line: Ah, would I were a pastrycook! Last Line: With scribbles, and with kisses, and with %love FOREBODING Poem Text First Line: Thou canst not see him standing by Last Line: Love should lose thee! FOREBODING First Line: Ev'n on the tenderest hour of love FOREBODING First Line: The sycamore, by the heap of dead Last Line: That can only falter, 'wait'? FOREST First Line: Death-cold is this house. Beasts prowl at its threshold Last Line: It is I , the despised one, those bolts might undo.' FORESTS First Line: Turn, now, tired mind, unto your rest Last Line: Death and his pack are hot afield again FORGIVENESS Poem Text First Line: O thy flamed cheek Last Line: Be grieved not so!' FOUR BROTHERS First Line: Hithery, hethery - I love best Last Line: Beasts to stall; to their fireside, men FOUR-AND-TWENTY TAILORS First Line: Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail Last Line: Run, tailors, run! Or she'll kill you all e'en now FOXES First Line: Old dr. Cox's %love of foxes Last Line: And each would bring its brush FRECKLES First Line: There was a young lady of beccles Last Line: And stopped inches short of her feet FRESCOES IN AN OLD CHURCH First Line: Six centuries now have gone Last Line: The immortal longings in the soul of man FRIENDS First Line: When on my bed I lie Last Line: They even in childhood were! FROM AMID THE SHADOWS First Line: Years gone I woke - from a dark dream - so terrified Last Line: To serve its sentence there: - eternal life.' FROZEN DELL First Line: How still it is! How pure and cold Last Line: And secret as the womb! FUCHSIAS First Line: I envied the droning, idle bee Last Line: Only his daily bread! FULL CURCLE First Line: When thou art as little as I am, mother Last Line: And I as old as thou FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: One night as dick lay fast asleep Last Line: She vanished, and was gone. Subject(s): Moon FUTILITY Poem Text First Line: Sink, thou strange heart, unto thy rest Last Line: We love not, nor believe. GAMESTERS Poem Text First Line: Three devils sate there, gloating on my sins Last Line: Heard silence lighten round the violins. Variant Title(s): The Old Shrouders GARDEN First Line: That wooden hive between the trees Last Line: Or peeping from the gable GATHER YE ROSES' First Line: I that loved, now love again Last Line: Nor care how oft time change the tinder! GAZE, NOW Poem Text First Line: Gaze, now, thy fill, beguiling face Last Line: All beauty hath to tell. GHOST CHASE First Line: What sight is this?...On dazzling snow Last Line: Beneath the blue of arctic skies! %hulla! Hullo! Hulla-hoo! GILBERT KEITH CHESTETON Poem Text First Line: Knight of the holy ghost, he goes his way Last Line: Pity and innocence his heart at rest. Variant Title(s): In Memory Of G.k. Chesterton Subject(s): Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936) GLANCE First Line: Dearest one, daughter! At glance of your brow-shaded eye Last Line: Could but clasp your cold hand in my own and was dumb as the %dead GLORIA MUNDI Poem Text First Line: Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold Last Line: And he who watched it piped its pangs asleep. GLUTTOON First Line: Pray, pity the poor glutton! Last Line: What's out into what's in GNOMON First Line: I cast a shadow. Through the gradual day Last Line: I obey the heavenly sun GO FAR; COME NEAR Last Line: Have mercy on your miseries and your sins GOAT First Line: Leaving his cave secure and tidy Last Line: Shrieks the bedizened parakeet GOLD Poem Text First Line: Sighed the wind to the wheat Last Line: Kiss me! Kiss me!' GOLDFINCH First Line: This feather-soft creature Last Line: Beauty, need GOLIATH Poem Text First Line: Still as a mountain with dark pines and sun Last Line: Softly all softly on his armour's blaze. GONE First Line: Where's the queen of sheba Last Line: But where's the queen of sheba? %where king solomon? GONE First Line: Bright sun, hot sun, oh, to be Last Line: Smalls, vanishes, is gone GOOD COMPANY First Line: The stranger from the noisy inn Last Line: Packed with its slow-tongued sailor-men GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: The last of last words spoken is, good-bye Last Line: Last of all last words spoken is, good-bye. GOODBYE First Line: Do you see? Oh, do you see? Last Line: When gaunt goodbye draws near GRACE First Line: For every sip the hen says grace Last Line: Might smile upon the parlourmaid GRATITUDE First Line: A poor word, gratitude! Last Line: That one brief moment's inward happiness! GREEN First Line: There was an old grocer of goring Last Line: A sight not infrequently seen GRIM Poem Text First Line: Beside the blaze, as of forty fires Last Line: His watch-fire twinkling bright. GROAT NOR TESTER Poem Text First Line: No groat for a supper Last Line: Nor had tester for a bed. HAMLET Poem Text First Line: Umbrageous cedars murmuring symphonies Last Line: Sorrow hath scribbled o'er, and o'er, and o'er. HAPLESS Poem Text First Line: Hapless, hapless, I must be Last Line: Not to such ill hap I had come. HAPPY ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Now each man's mind all europe is Last Line: Had given its all for these! HAPPY, HAPPY, IT IS TO BE HARD LABOUR First Line: This prince of commerce spent his days HARE First Line: Eyes that glass fear, though fear on furtive foot Last Line: Roves eden, as did satan, long ago HAREBELL First Line: In the clear summer sunshine, hour by hour Last Line: At last, for very love, give its strange secret up HARK! First Line: My little charles is afraid of the dark Last Line: And a silence falls in the vacancy.... %'listen!...' he whispers. 'hark!...' HARVEST First Line: Poppy, cornflower, nid-nod wheat Last Line: This silent bird in nest HARVEST HOME First Line: A bird flies up from the hayfield Last Line: And only this poor alas! HAUNTED Poem Text First Line: From out the wood I watched them shine Last Line: The watch-stars kindled in the sky. HAUNTED Poem Text First Line: The rabbit in his burrow keeps Last Line: With tenderest taciturnity. HAUNTED First Line: The roads are dangerous.' Last Line: Oh, yes: 'the roads'.' HAVE DONE First Line: Have done with grieving, idiot heart! Last Line: And, callous as both, play on HAYMAKING First Line: Bill's on the hay-wain Last Line: Or eyeing what's there, for lunch HE WHO HATH WALKED IN DARKEST NIGHT HENRY VAUGHAN First Line: So true and sweet his music rings Last Line: Yet every one's his own Subject(s): Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695) HERE First Line: Forgave I everything Last Line: That she is here? HERE ALL WE SEE HERE I SIT First Line: Here I sit, and glad am I Last Line: So to sit contentedly HERE LIES - HOW SAD THAT HE IS NO MORE SEEN HERE LIES A TAILOR First Line: Here lies a tailor, well-loved soul! Last Line: What scarecrows most men naked be HERE LIES MY HUSBANDS Poem Text First Line: Here lies my husbands; one, two, three Last Line: And to make things tidy, I adds his -- james. Subject(s): Epitaphs HERE LIES OLD BONES HERE LIES...' First Line: Think kindly of me. A tasmanian snake Last Line: The all of praise to god mere dust can give HERE TO-DAY Poem Text First Line: Here to-day and gone to-morrow Last Line: Ring poor robin's funeral. HERESY First Line: What place is this? %all's strange to me, and I Last Line: And I!...Away! HI! First Line: Hi! Handsome hunting man Last Line: Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun! HIDE AND SEEK Poem Text First Line: Hide and seek, says the wind Last Line: Into the dream of sleep. HIGH First Line: Fly, kite! Last Line: An earth, I mean, like mine HOLIDAYS First Line: Dobbin's in the stable, pigs are in sty Last Line: Begins the holidays! HOLLY First Line: The sturdiest of forest-trees Last Line: With its berries burning through! HOME Poem Text First Line: Rest, rest - there is no rest Last Line: Death's refuge won. HOMECOMING First Line: Wondrous that journeying o'er the atlantic deep! Last Line: And england come again! HOMESICK First Line: O homesick, brood no more! Last Line: Friend to the soul also that thirsts for thee! HOPPING First Line: There was and old widow of wapping Last Line: On - on - into sweet pretty kent HORSE IN A FIELD First Line: We sat and talked. It was june and the summer light Variant Title(s): To K. M HORSES First Line: I never see a coach go by Last Line: To graze upon our funeral grass HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Welcome! Enter! This is the inn at the cross roads Last Line: Love and all peace be thine. HOUSE (1) First Line: Mother, it's such a lonely house,' Last Line: The withering grass replied HOUSE (2) First Line: A lane at the end of old pilgrim street Last Line: And it seems to be craving for company HOUSE (3) First Line: The rusty gate had been chained and padlocked Last Line: To another old house instead HOUSE OF DREAM First Line: Candle, candle, burning clear Last Line: Sleep's unlatched her door to me HOW BLIND! First Line: How blind 'twas to be harsh, I know Last Line: Shall never cease to bleed HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE Poem Text First Line: Nay, nay, sweet england, do not grieve Last Line: Only thy joy could share. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE' First Line: Bitterly, england must thou grieve Last Line: No more remorse can share Subject(s): England HOW WAYWARD First Line: How wayward one's exquisite taste may be! Last Line: Yet - not the efficient! HUMANITY Poem Text First Line: Ever exulting in thyself; on fire Last Line: And in its past slept simple men like me. HUNT First Line: Tallyho! Tallyho! Last Line: Another fine day HUNTER First Line: Why wilt thou take my heart? It fawnlike flies Last Line: Sweet god, divine compassion have: or kill!' HYSSOP First Line: Said judge jessop Last Line: Why, house-leek,' said the bisop. That's all I AM First Line: I am the world...Unveil this face Last Line: Time's bars grins gibbering fate I CAN'T ABEAR Poem Text First Line: I can't abear a butcher Last Line: That ugliest of sights! I DREAM OF A PLACE First Line: I dream of a place where I long to live always Last Line: Low hills, shallow and dunes - at peace there to be! I GO HOME Poem Text First Line: My mistress dreams - and me forgot Last Line: And I go home. I MET AT EVE Poem Text First Line: I met at eve the prince of sleep Last Line: Lovely in a lonely place. Subject(s): Sleep I SANG A SONG TO ROSAMOND ROSE I SAW THREE WITCHES I SIT ALONE Last Line: To the blinded, sight I WAS AFRAID I WENT TO PLUCK A FLOW'R I WONDER First Line: I wonder if nile's papyrus grows Last Line: Where time there will be to think I, FRIEND First Line: I, friend, drink to thee, friend Last Line: The merrier we'll be IAGO Poem Text First Line: A dark lean face, a narrow, slanting eye Last Line: To have made the world! Fie on thee, artisan! ICE First Line: The north wind sighed Last Line: At night shall solid %ice become IDLE WORD First Line: I used to wear a diamond ring Last Line: What the old vixen's done for me! IDLENESS Poem Text First Line: I saw old idleness, fat, with great cheeks Last Line: A foxy ovid bound in dappled calf. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers IDOL OF THE WORLD First Line: I saw the idol of the world descend Last Line: Who seemed a rottenness scarce aught at all IF First Line: If this, or that, had else-wise been Last Line: And looks the other way IMAGE First Line: Faint sighings sounded, not of wind, amid Last Line: Yet not a mark in the dust to tell its name? IMMANENT First Line: The drone of war-plane neared,and dimmed away Subject(s): Ants; Insects IMOGEN Poem Text First Line: Even she too dead! All languor on her brow Last Line: Pausing 'twixt death and life on one hushed word. IN A CHURCHYARD First Line: As children, told to go to bed IN A LIBRARY First Line: Would - would that there were Last Line: I lost, when a child IN DEEP SLEEP Poem Text First Line: In deep sleep I had forgot Last Line: Wouldst grieve me so. Subject(s): Sleep IN ODISGRACE First Line: The fear-dulled eyes in the pallid face Last Line: But a heart not so hard as a stone IN RETROSPECT First Line: Not for mere peace I sigh Last Line: How blest this night would be this body's sleeping! IN THE DOCK Poem Text First Line: Pallid, mis-shapen he stands. The world's grimed thumb Last Line: When howls man's soul, it howls inaudibly. IN THE DYING OF DAYLIGHT Last Line: As if she, too, had heard IN THE GARDEN First Line: A mild parochial talk was ours Last Line: Our complaisance; her solitude? IN THE LOCAL MUSEUM First Line: They stood - rain pelting at window, shrouded sea Last Line: Plautus impennis, the extinct great auk IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE First Line: Body amorphous, head piled high with hair Last Line: A bawd's foul pussiecat, a procuress IN VAIN Poem Text First Line: I knocked upon thy door ajar Last Line: Wide open into night. IN VAIN MINE EYES THY BEAUTY SCAN Last Line: Must face thou gone INCANTATION First Line: Vervain...Basil...Orison Last Line: Breathes, voiceless, of a pre-edenic peace INCANTATION First Line: Green drowsed the valley. Glassed the sun Last Line: Would god that you were dead!' INCOMPREHENSIBLE' First Line: Engrossed in the day's 'news', I read Last Line: Only too well, too well!' INCOMPUTABLE First Line: Think you the nimblest tongue has ever said Last Line: Then reckon how many you have made your own! INNOCENCY Poem Text First Line: In this grave picture mortal man may see Last Line: Whose name is innocency. INTERLUDE First Line: A small brook gushed on stones hard by Last Line: The glory that might have been?' INTERMITTENT FEVER First Line: Heaven help me! I'm in love again INTRUDER First Line: There were no clouds in the arch of the evening Last Line: Hears demon mocking him, hasting along INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: The burning fire shakes in the night Last Line: Set stars and kindled fire. INWARD COMPANION: THE DREAMER Poem Text First Line: O thou who giving helm and sword Last Line: Is sleep. INWARD COMPANION: THE DUNCE First Line: And 'science' said Last Line: And-happy be!' INWARD COMPANION: WORDS First Line: Were words sole proof of happiness Last Line: Mourn, beyond speech to share Subject(s): Language IRON First Line: It is the gentle poet's art Last Line: Stares in upon his ghastly stock %and opens monday's till? IRREVOCABLE Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder what my life doth mean Last Line: Only to think of you no more were best. IRREVOCABLE First Line: Weep no more, thou weary one Last Line: Never shall now as brightly show ISAAC MEEK Poem Text First Line: Hook-nosed was I , loose-lipped; greed fixed its gaze Last Line: Stoop close: I have inherited the earth! Subject(s): Epitaphs ISLAND First Line: Parched, panting, he awoke; phantasnal light Last Line: Smiled, frowned; 'there, sleep again!' - and turned away ISRAFEL First Line: Sleepless I lay, as the grey of dawn Last Line: That rapturous song in connaught square IT IS A WRAITH First Line: It is a wraith - no mortal - haunts my way Last Line: Whisper my mouth thy name, and whispering, die! IT MIGHT BE A LUMP OF AMBER First Line: It might be a lump of amber, ma'am Last Line: Is to keep our eye on the moral IT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS SEEN ALIVE' First Line: You saw him, then?...That very night?' Last Line: Bowed: and then went his way.' IT'S JOYS AND CARES AND STRIFE First Line: It's joys and cares and stri-I-fe Last Line: And some they call it lov ITIINY EENANENNIKA First Line: Tiny eenanennika Last Line: And flit off again IZAAK WALTON First Line: That lucent, dewy, rain-sweet prose Last Line: Garnished with moly and asphodel - %but fish! Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) J. T. Poem Text First Line: Here's jane taylor Last Line: Dear jane taylor. Subject(s): Epitaphs J.J. First Line: There was an old vicar of sinder Last Line: Had burst out that muffled, 'old jones!' JACKDAWS First Line: This dry old dotard lived but to amass Last Line: But he his treasures buries underground JACKET First Line: Things seen but once - ev'n by chance - may win Last Line: The canvas jacket, the padded cell JACOB TODD Poem Text First Line: Here be the ashes of jacob todd Last Line: He bedded for ye judgement day. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Sexton Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers JAITHFUL PIG First Line: Sir jasper ginger had a pig, sir Last Line: All the way after its old friend's coffin JENNY First Line: I love her face JENNY WREN First Line: Of all the birds that rove and sing Last Line: A tiny, inch-long, eager, ardent, %feathered mouse Subject(s): Birds JENNY WREN First Line: That farthing bird, j. Wren Last Line: Be marketed for, perdie JILT First Line: When, in her shift, poor delia swift Last Line: And never seen was she (or shift) %again JIM JAY Poem Text First Line: Do diddle di do Last Line: Poor jim jay. JOB HODSON AND HIS FOUR WIVES Poem Text First Line: Here rests in peace, rebecca anne Last Line: And him, the husband of the above. Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHN BULL First Line: Based like a rock, he so abides Last Line: And, at one's source, sits sober-sides JOHN MOULDY Poem Text First Line: I spied john mouldy in his cellar Last Line: Smiling there alone. Subject(s): Cellars; Basements JOHN SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Is that john simpson?' Last Line: Ask again.' Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHN VIRGIN Poem Text First Line: If thou, stranger, be john virgin, then the Last Line: Six fathom in the sea. Subject(s): Epitaphs JOLLIES First Line: The captain, he said to his passenger, 'twill-a be full %moon to-night Last Line: And there's rum for them that's dry!' JOLLY HUNTSMAN First Line: There was a jolly huntsman Last Line: Perhaps, come, kiss me, dear! JOLLY LAUGHTER First Line: With strawberry jam and cream for tea Last Line: Jolly laughter JONATHAN SWIFT First Line: That sovereign mind Last Line: As age, as ordure, and as size Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) JOURNEY (2) First Line: When the high road Last Line: The journey %is nearly done JOY First Line: This little wayward boy Last Line: Masked, weeping, he JULES RAOUL DUBOIS Poem Text First Line: Here sleeps a frenchman: would I could Last Line: One word were all sufficient -- peace! Subject(s): Epitaphs JULIET Poem Text First Line: Sparrow and nightingale - did ever such Last Line: Which is of yew the everlasting star. JULIET'S NURSE Poem Text First Line: In old-world nursery vacant now of children Last Line: Lie stiff with silks of sixty thrifty years. KANT First Line: There was an old lawyer of diss Last Line: And one of 'em up and, yes - kissed her KEEP INNOCENCY Poem Text First Line: Like an old battle, youth is wild Last Line: The flame death knows his victors by. Subject(s): Soldiers KING DAVID Poem Text First Line: King david was a sorrowful man Last Line: Till all his own was gone. KINGS First Line: King canute %sat down by the sea Last Line: Ink, seal, table, %on runnymede green, %anno domini %12-15 KINGS AND QUEENS Poem Text First Line: Eight henries, one mary Last Line: And we praise god for five. KIPH First Line: My uncle ben, who's been Last Line: That stone called kiph! KISMET First Line: Beneath the cold stone wherein cut is this rhyme Last Line: And would barter his all for one moment of time KISS First Line: In the long drouth of life Last Line: Pauses a timeless moment; then resumes %the inevitable KNOWN OF OLD First Line: I dream, and I dream...' Last Line: And that is my dream.' LABYRINTH Poem Text First Line: I marvelled at earth's glory, her grey seas Last Line: How shall I through these dreams thy realty trace! LADY GODIVA (2) First Line: The lady godiva godolphin, of a blood by the centuries %blued Last Line: And what matter if nobody knoowed? Subject(s): Godiva, Lady (1140-1180) LADY MCTAGGART First Line: The lady mctaggart preferred to recline Last Line: When she sank on the sofa, sigh, 'so far, so good.' LAID LOW First Line: Nought else now stirring my sick thoughts to share Last Line: Oh god, give life!' and, 'would that I were dead!' LANTERN First Line: A lantern lighted me to bed Last Line: Beamed clean across the wandle LAST ARROW First Line: There came a boy Last Line: Not even thee shall jilt.' LAST CHAPTER First Line: I am living more alone now than I did Last Line: Mark you whose badge and livery he wears LAST GUEST First Line: Now that thy friends are gone Last Line: Who comes, alone, by night LAST NIGHT First Line: Last night, as I sat here alone Last Line: And woke me - stark with fear LAST STRAW First Line: I watched them troop through the gates of glory Last Line: But must I mix with the moralists'?' LAST SWALLOW First Line: The robin whistles again. Day's arches narrow Last Line: Knows where the coast of far mysterious sun-wild %africa lours LATE Poem Text First Line: Three small men in a small house Last Line: One stirred in his sleep and said. LE JEU EST FAIT First Line: Here lies a gambler, every trick now played Last Line: And only one card left, a spade LEAVES First Line: Even as my fingers snapped the stem Last Line: What word of 'beauty' will serve instead'? LETHE First Line: Only the blessed of lethe's dews LIFE Poem Text First Line: Hearken, o dear, now strikes the hour we die Last Line: Of all things lovely the cold mortuary. LIFE LIVES ON LIFE' First Line: Life lives on life - that stale old tale! Last Line: And long-loved lips mused, stay! LIFETIME: EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM BLAKE First Line: I lived; I toiled - day in, day out Last Line: I, who am come to this? LIKE SISTERS First Line: There is a thicket in the wild Last Line: As love is from unchastity LINES ON OPHELIA First Line: She found an exit from her life Last Line: Mine - her foul might-have-been LION-HUNTER First Line: The lion-hunter is a man Last Line: Colloguing with a lion LISTEN! Poem Text First Line: Quiet your faces; be crossed every thumb Last Line: Like linnets of silver sing. LITTLE BIRDS BATHE LITTLE HOUSE First Line: I built my dear a little house Last Line: Sleep, chatter, and are merry LITTLE SHOP First Line: The whistler on the whistle Last Line: Is the name of the shop-keeper - time LOB LIE BY THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: He squats by the fire Last Line: Just an hour in the mirk. LOB-LIE-BY-THE-FIRE First Line: Keep me a crust %or starve I must Last Line: Prosperous master, %and kind mistress LOGS First Line: This tree, by april wreathed in flowers Last Line: Is into firewood made LONE First Line: Shrill rang the squeak in the empty house Last Line: Scolding the sheep-strewn mountain's side LONE MUST EVERY SPIRIT BE First Line: Lone must every spirit be Last Line: Death shining there LONG AGO First Line: Whatever sweetness this poor heart may keep Last Line: To you - most dear - to thee LONGLEGS Poem Text First Line: Longlegs - he yelled 'coo-ee!' Last Line: A thin 'coo-ee!' LOOKING-GLASS First Line: Nothing is so sure that it Last Line: Lost in delight at seeing you.' LOOKING-GLASS AND THE GARDEN First Line: This is my window: here I see Last Line: There only pleasures dwell LOST First Line: A long life passes; but of all it gives Last Line: To orb one moment of a summer's morn LOST SELF First Line: Oh for the will to love no more Last Line: All that thou wert, and art LOST WORLD First Line: Why, inward companion, are you so dark with %anguish? Last Line: Or nearer draw to your heartsick infidel! LOVE' First Line: Children - alone - are grave Last Line: And laughs out, naked, like a little boy LOVELOCKS Poem Text First Line: I watched the lady caroline Last Line: Her beauteous hair about. LOVERS First Line: There fell an hour when - as if clock Last Line: While love is theirs on earth! LUCY First Line: Strange - as I sat brooding, here Last Line: As gently pierced my breast! LULLABY (1) Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Last Line: Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! LULLABY (2) Poem Text First Line: Shut now those slumber-haunted eyes Last Line: Sleep to the drowsy little one! LULLABY (3) Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul! Last Line: Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul. LULLAY First Line: Now lullay, my sweeting Last Line: My lorn one, my dear!' LULLAY, MY HEART, AND FIND THY PEACE First Line: Lullay, my heart, and find thy peace Last Line: As I for mine! LULLY First Line: Nay, ninny, shut those sleepy eyes Last Line: Safe on thy mother's arm M.O.R.S. Poem Text First Line: Stranger, where I at peace do lie Last Line: Leave me to my own company! Subject(s): Epitaphs MACBETH Poem Text First Line: Rose, like dim battlements, the hills and reared Last Line: A soul still childish in a blackened hell. MAERCHEN Poem Text First Line: Soundless the moth-flit, crisp the death-watch tick Last Line: The cat looked long and softly at the king. MAGNIFYING GLASS First Line: With this round glass Last Line: Twould seem you'd walk there %in an afternoon! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MAKING A FIRE First Line: Scatter a few cold cinders into the empty grate Last Line: As soon as god's mercy would quench them, love, weeping, %lights them again MANY A MICKLE Poem Text First Line: A little sound Last Line: The drowsy bed. MARCH HARES First Line: The best way to go,' said my muffled-up friend, 'is to look in Last Line: Which wasn't exacaly fair MARTHA Poem Text First Line: Once...Once upon a time...' Last Line: Of an age gone by. MARTINS First Line: Chelidon urbica urbica!' %I cried on the little bird Last Line: None paid me the faintest heed MARTINS: SEPTEMBER First Line: At secret daybreak they had met Last Line: A sparrow pecking in the dust MARY First Line: Mary! Mary! Mary! Last Line: Come to the dairy, please! MASTER RABBIT Poem Text First Line: As I was walking Last Line: A human near! ME First Line: As long as I live Last Line: And the spirit within it %is gone Subject(s): Self MEAT First Line: From out his red and sawdust shop Last Line: And help the greengrocer next door MEDDLING First Line: Says james to his second cousin, he says Last Line: And there I intend to stay.' MELMILLO Poem Text First Line: Three and thirty birds there stood Last Line: Danced alone -- lone danced melmillo. MEMORY First Line: Ah, memory - that strange deceiver! Last Line: When she is gone I too must go MEMORY: A PORTRAIT First Line: A solemn plain-faced child stands gazing there Last Line: Where now the fowler weaves his subtleties MERCUTIO Poem Text First Line: Along an avenue of almond-trees Last Line: Leaving the spring faint with mercutio. MERMAIDS First Line: Leagues, leagues over Last Line: And the wandering moon MESSENGERS Poem Text First Line: A few all-faithful words, a glance from eyes Last Line: These light-wing messengers flit back to god? MIMA Poem Text First Line: Jemima is my name Last Line: Calls, mocking, up the stair. MINSTREL First Line: Black night; small moon Last Line: I am death Subject(s): Death; Minstrels MIRACH, ANTARES... First Line: Mirach, antares, vega, caph, alcor Last Line: They, or the incantation of their names MIRAGE; ... AND BURNED THE TOPLESS TOWERS OF ILIUM Poem Text First Line: Strange fabled face! From sterile shore to shore Last Line: And thou art named, despair. MISERICORDIA! MISS CHERRY First Line: Once - once I loved Last Line: And miss cherry loved me MISS CLEGG First Line: Miss clegg was accustomed to do as she wished Last Line: And awaited a bite from the billow MISS GOOTZ First Line: Certain people one knows Last Line: My very odd neighbour miss g MISS LOO Poem Text First Line: When thin-strewn memory I look through Last Line: Asked nothing else, if she had you. MISS PHEASANT First Line: There was an old man with a gun Last Line: At espying a lady named pheasant MISS T. Poem Text First Line: It's a very odd thing Last Line: Turns into miss t. MISSEL THRUSH First Line: When from the brittle ice the fields Last Line: Shouts wild against the sky MISSING WORD First Line: The glory that was greece', I read Last Line: Into my mind would come! MIST First Line: Sometimes in moods of gloom - like mist Last Line: That sang to me MISTLETOE Poem Text First Line: Sitting under the mistletoe Last Line: Lips unseen -- and kissed me there. MISTRESS FELL Poem Text First Line: Whom seek you here, sweet mistress fell?' Last Line: For a close whispering.' MODERN GADARA First Line: Appalled, in dream, I watched the ravenous swine Last Line: Lo, every one could swim MOMENT First Line: O time - the heedless child you are! Last Line: Yes, even to eternity MONSTER First Line: There was an old man with a net Last Line: No, nothing at all: merely sea MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: The far moon maketh lovers wise Last Line: Her twilight enters in. Subject(s): Love MOONSHINE First Line: There was a young lady of rheims Last Line: Cried aloud, 'I am coming, o bard of my dreams!' %and was clasped to his bosom in gizeh MORNING TOILET Poem Text First Line: Tis sure eleven by the sun Last Line: A thousand crowns a sprig. MORROW First Line: The moon doth fade that shone on juliet Last Line: Flee to the everlasting peace of romeo MOTLEY Poem Text First Line: Come, death, I'd have a word with thee Last Line: Tis time thy prayers were said! Variant Title(s): The Fool Rings His Bells Subject(s): World War I; First World War MOTLEY: MUSIC Poem Text First Line: When music sounds, gone is the earth I know Last Line: The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MOTLEY: PEACE Poem Text First Line: Night is o'er england, and the winds are still Last Line: These bright dews once were mixed with bloody sweat. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War MOTLEY: THE GHOST Poem Text First Line: Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful Last Line: The sweet cheat gone. Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Love; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness MOTLEY: THE REVENANT Poem Text First Line: O all ye fair ladies with your colours and your graces Last Line: Now wrapt in the gross clay, bereft of life's breath. MOURN'ST THOU NOW? Poem Text First Line: Long ago from radiant palace Last Line: Of a god once thine? MOURNER First Line: Nothing for him on earth went right Last Line: Whence then these scalding tears?' MOUSE First Line: In a snug little house Last Line: And we called it magnani MR. ALACADACCA Poem Text First Line: Mr. Alacadacca's Last Line: A-l-a-c-a-d-a-c-c-a. MR. PUNCH First Line: A screech across the sands Last Line: Belled cap, hook-nose %and hump! MRS. EARTH Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Earth makes silver black Last Line: Why, neither knows. MRS. GRUNDY Poem Text First Line: Step very softly, sweet quiet-foot Last Line: The guile of a voice: hark!. . .' 'come in. Come in!' MRS. MACQUEEN, OR THE LOLLIE-SHOP Poem Text First Line: With glass like a bull's-eye Last Line: In the linden tree. MUSIC Poem Text First Line: O restless fingers - not that music make! Last Line: Rises the goddess from the waves dark blue. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC UNHEARD Poem Text First Line: Sweet sounds, begone Last Line: And reflections be.' MUST AND MAY Poem Text First Line: Must and may they were two half-brothers Last Line: Singing a, b, c, d, e. F. G. MY MIDNIGHT LAMP BURNS DIM WITH SHAME Last Line: Thy ghost once absent, dear MYSELF Poem Text First Line: There is a garden, grey Last Line: Myself with me. N.F. Poem Text First Line: See now, if thou have any heed Last Line: Lest the unsleeping find the wake! Subject(s): Epitaphs NAPOLEON Poem Text First Line: What is the world, o soldiers? Last Line: Is I.' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War NAT VOLE Poem Text First Line: Here lieth nat vole Last Line: He'd not listeners seek! Subject(s): Epitaphs NED GUN Poem Text First Line: Where be sam potter now? Last Line: No: nor ned gunn. Subject(s): Epitaphs NED VAUGHAN Poem Text First Line: A shepherd, ned vaughan Last Line: And shepherd in sleep. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Shepherd Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers NEVER First Line: Take me, or leave me - I'm not thine,' Last Line: But - 'take me, or leave me, I'm not thine!' NEVER AGAIN First Line: Jwell, if I fall in love again Last Line: A single hour with her on earth? NEVER MORE SAILOR NEVER YET First Line: Never yet I peaceful lay Last Line: And, once more, happy, die! NEVER-TO -BE Poem Text First Line: Down by the waters of the sea Last Line: Whispering of what comes not again. NEWS First Line: Hearken! 'tis news I cry!' Last Line: It is breathed, 'love is dead'.' NICHOLAS NYE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Thistle and darnel and dock grew there Last Line: Old nicholas nye. Subject(s): Animals NICOLETTA First Line: Oh, my pretty nicoletta Last Line: The wild thyme blows NIGHT Poem Text First Line: All from the light of the sweet moon Last Line: Sighs, and his soft airs flow. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: The last light fails - that shallow pool of day! Last Line: The glory of beauty are in one enravished face. NO First Line: A drear, wind-weary afternoon Last Line: Of whom, - and how much, - I loved NO BED First Line: No bed! No bed! We shouted Last Line: Call in thy footsore boys %to harmless night! Subject(s): Night NO JEWEL First Line: No jewel from the rock Last Line: Across the furze NO VOICE TO SCOLD NO! First Line: Full oft I've stood at winter dusk alone upon the strand Last Line: And hear the lark's shrill roundelay, %I know I know I know NO, NO, NO! First Line: Had you loved me NOBODY KNOWS Poem Text First Line: Often I've heard the wind sigh Last Line: Burns day. NOCTURNE Poem Text First Line: Tis not my voice now speaks; but as a bird Last Line: To that self's self it still is dreaming of. Subject(s): Love NOD Poem Text First Line: Softly along the road of evening Last Line: "rest, rest, and rest again." Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses NOON First Line: Few and faint a bird's small notes Last Line: Floated beneath a willow tree NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Not any flower that blows Last Line: Lifts her dim torch to light that dreaming face. NOSTALGIA (LATER VERSION OF 'THE TWO HOUSES) First Line: In the strange city of life Last Line: Where dark doth dwell NOT BY THE CLOSEST SHAVE Last Line: And all his occupation gone NOT I! Poem Text First Line: As I came out of wiseman's street Last Line: Envying no man -- no, not I. NOT ONE First Line: Turn your head sidelong Last Line: Can ever come again NOT ONE First Line: We may, most dear, as bodies meet Last Line: Can life even one retrieve NOT ONLY Poem Text First Line: Not only ruins their lichen have Last Line: Denied its passing hour. Subject(s): Time NOT THAT WAY Poem Text First Line: No, no. Guard thee. Get thee gone Last Line: Not that way! NOT YET First Line: Not love me? Even yet!' - half dreaming, I Last Line: Before she was dead NOTHING First Line: Whsst, and away, and over the green Subject(s): Nothingness; Supernatural NOW First Line: The longed-for summer goes NOW SILENT FALLS Poem Text First Line: Now silent falls the clacking mill Last Line: And no time, no, love. NOW TWELVE ABOVE NOW, DEAR ME! NOW, MY DEAR, FOR GRACIOUS SAKE NOWEL First Line: Holly dark: pale mistletoe Last Line: To sing, what none could say O CHILDISH MIND! First Line: O childish mind! - last night to rapture won Last Line: Find a like happiness in a single pink! O DEAR ME! Poem Text First Line: Here are crocuses, white, gold, grey! Last Line: O dear me!' says emmanuel. O LOVELY ENGLAND First Line: O lovely england, whose ancient peace Last Line: Dream unashamed of these! Subject(s): England O ONLIE ONE, FARE-WELL! O PASSER-BY, BEWARE! O.A. Poem Text First Line: Who: and how: and where: and when Last Line: Still with their last breath, why? Subject(s): Epitaphs O.M.O.R.E. First Line: Tis years fourscore Last Line: We have seen the o.M.O.R.E.!' OCCLUDED First Line: Chilled is the air with fallen rain Last Line: The virgin huntress horns the silent sky ODD MAN OUT First Line: Have you ever fought in a battle, tom?' Last Line: That were sam's score, sir. Odd man out I %took for mine,' he said OF A SON' First Line: A garish room - oil-lamped; a stove's warm blaze Last Line: In the brief hush of tongues resumed its tick OFF THE GROUND Poem Text First Line: Three jolly farmers / once bet a pound Last Line: Off the ground!' Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers OH, WHY? First Line: Oh, why make such ado Last Line: Stars without number OH, YES, MY DEAR First Line: Oh, yes, my dear, you have a mother Last Line: You to be next in that long row! OLD AUTHOR First Line: The end, he scrawled, and blotted it. Then eyed Last Line: And everything left unsaid!' OLD B. First Line: To sit under a tree Last Line: And that's about all that is known of old b OLD BEN Poem Text First Line: Sad is old ben thistlethwaite Last Line: Greener the moss-grown tree. OLD CANNON First Line: Come, patient rust OLD SAILOR First Line: There came an old sailor Last Line: And snored, snored, snored OLD SHELLOVER Poem Text First Line: Come!' said old shellover Last Line: Ay!' said creep. OLD SUMMERHOUSE First Line: This blue-washed, old, thatched summerhouse Last Line: That music, remote, forlorn OLD SUSAN Poem Text First Line: When susan's work was done, she'd sit Last Line: And rooted in romance remain. Subject(s): Books; Reading OLD TAILOR First Line: There was once an old tailor of hickery mo Last Line: A fine kakkamangul you're making now!' OMEN First Line: Far overhead - the glass set fair Last Line: To win its pleasure back again OMNISCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Why look'd'st thou on the beauties of the earth Last Line: Man, till his saviour come, at peace asleep! ON MISTRESS ALICE OLIVER First Line: Here sleeps, past earth's awakening ON THE ESPLANADE First Line: The autumnal gales had wreaked their will Last Line: And shrill, sad challenge cried ONCE (1) First Line: Once would the early sun steal in through my eastern Last Line: Even the loved should know ONCE (2) First Line: As deep as sand in egypt Last Line: In muscovy's the snow! ONCE IN KIND ARMS, ALAS, YOU HELD ME CLOSE Last Line: Yet live, god only knows ONE IN THE PUBLIC GALLERY First Line: The seraph scanned the murderer in the dock Last Line: He turned his burning eyes and looked at me ONE SWALLOW First Line: Strange - after so many quiet springs ONE, TWO, THREE First Line: One I've loved, and two I've loved Last Line: But jessamy chose me OPHELIA Poem Text First Line: There runs a crisscross pattern of small leaves Last Line: Better the glassy horror of the stream. ORCHARD First Line: Lapped in the light and heat of noon Last Line: But they? - all gone OTHER VOICE First Line: Sweet musician stay thine art Last Line: Sweetness out of dust! OTHERS (1) First Line: Friendly?' %'perhaps!' Last Line: They are the happier when I'm away.' OTHERS (2) First Line: How few the human frailties we can never Last Line: How dodge the dread contagion of the dull? OUT OF A DREAM First Line: Out of a dream I came Last Line: Behold! I am come.' OUT OF BOUNDS First Line: Why covet what eye cannot see Last Line: Wondrous with falling snow? OUTCASTS First Line: There broods a hovel by a narrow way OUTCASTS First Line: Grunting he paused. Dead-cold the balustrade Last Line: Searched the dark bridge - but not a soul in sight OUTER DARKNESS First Line: Uncompanioned, forlorn, the shade of a shade Last Line: But nothingness made no reply OUTSKIRTS First Line: The night was cloyed with flowers Last Line: Hearken - an outcast I - I cry, %beware! OVER THE DOWNS First Line: A stick between his knees, sits pat Last Line: May know: he does not tell OWL (1) First Line: Apart, thank heaven, from all to do Last Line: Till it grow dark enough for him to see Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL (3) First Line: Owl of the wildwood I Last Line: Of my woodland through: %a-hooh! A-hooh! - %a-hooh! Subject(s): Birds; Owls PAINT First Line: A dumpy plain-faced child stands gazing there Last Line: What grave velasquez talked to her about PAIR First Line: There's a stealthy old gaffer named time Last Line: A sly, blindfold rascal (with arrows) called cupid PALE-FACE Poem Text First Line: Dark are those eyes, a solemn blue Last Line: The very self that made you so. Subject(s): Beauty PANTOMIME First Line: Were those fine horses once white mice Last Line: We ask, but cannot say PARCHMENT First Line: Thou who wouldst dare Last Line: Upon his dish! PASSION First Line: Passion's a flame that, leaping up apace Last Line: Not for the wishing, but because it must PEACE First Line: A heart to be at peace with Last Line: Be all the hope in me PEAK AND PUKE Poem Text First Line: From his cradle in the glamourie Last Line: Ye shall ne'er be woman's baby! PEEPING TOM First Line: I was there - by the curtains Last Line: And without any locks? PENNY First Line: A person of abergavenny Last Line: By an old man from bromley-by-bow PHILIP' First Line: A flattened orb of water his Last Line: Eludes, I fear, poor philip's rhyme PICTURE-BOOK First Line: Dear reader, prythee, stay, and look Last Line: This picture-book has been to me PIGS First Line: A cock it was, in the stable yard Last Line: A snow-white blackbird sings PILGRIM FORGET Poem Text First Line: Pilgrim forget; in this dark tide Last Line: Ache for thy love! PLASTER CAST First Line: It called to mind one now long out of sight Last Line: A random moonbeam on its peaceful face PLAYMATE First Line: Weep no more, nor grieve, nor sigh Last Line: Where I was cruel to thee! PLEASE TO REMEMBER' First Line: Here am I Last Line: Will be dust and ashes POETRY First Line: In stagnant gloom I toil through day Last Line: Into this garden of the lord's POINTS OF VIEW First Line: This satirist, well-meaning, makes a hubbub Last Line: In blissful ignorance of the satirist POLLIE First Line: Pollie is a simpleton Last Line: Shining in that small face? POLONIUS Poem Text First Line: There haunts in time's bare house an active ghost Last Line: Would turn and call him cousin -- for the likeness. PONJOO First Line: My uncle jasper in siam Last Line: But never, mever '--------!' POOH! First Line: Dainty miss apathy %sat on a sofa Last Line: But contained just four letters, %and these pronounced pooh! Subject(s): Apathy; Bores POOL IN THE ROCK First Line: In this water, clear as air Last Line: Sounds on the hollow thunder of the tide POOR 'MISS 7' Poem Text First Line: Lone and alone she lies Last Line: Happy miss 7. POOR BEN, OLD BEN Poem Text First Line: Wi'decks awas' Last Line: Pore-benn-ole-ben! Variant Title(s): Nod's Old English Song POOR BIRD! Last Line: And lovely be! POOR HENRY Poem Text First Line: Thick in its glass Last Line: Of health next week! PORTRAIT First Line: Scarf and fillet, chaplet, gem Last Line: Lucrezia borgia?...It is I.' PORTRAIT First Line: Only thy fair small face I see Last Line: Still in untroubled sleep PORTRAIT OF A BOY' First Line: At evens with the copious april clouds POT OF MUSK First Line: A glance - and instantly the small meek flower Last Line: Ere it had lost its scent PRECIOUS STONES First Line: Ruby, amethyst, emerald, diamond Last Line: Amber and coral and orient pearl! PRETENDER First Line: In the greens of the wilds of seringapatam Last Line: When there's none to reply, 'it is not.' PRIDE HATH ITS FRUITS ALSO First Line: What shades are these that now oppress my eyes Last Line: No more the secret reflex of my soul PRINCE First Line: Sweet peridarchus was a prince Last Line: The princeliest of princes!' PROBLEMS First Line: Gone! Where? My glasses!' the old quidnunc cries Last Line: He finds them on his nose PRODIGAL SON First Line: This weakling who, while yet a child Last Line: But none would let him in PROLOGUE (1) Poem Text First Line: Summer is come - brisk pink, and wilding rose Last Line: A waif indeed, alas, but not from love a-stray. PROLOGUE (2) First Line: A good wine needs no bush' - ay, so. No more Last Line: With tragic marlowe for prodigious theme? PROMENADE First Line: See master humphrey, with his mother Last Line: Biscuits and cheese PUSS First Line: A sly old puss that paused to cross the road PUSS First Line: Puss loves man's winter fire Last Line: And reads his book QUACK First Line: What said the drake to his lady-love Last Line: Quacked their quacked quack, quack, quacks back QUACK! First Line: The duck is whiter than whey is Last Line: And says, quack! Quack! QUACK-HUNTING First Line: When evening's darkening azure Last Line: I make my nightly score, I count %their quacks QUEEN DJENIRA Poem Text First Line: When queen djenira slumbers through Last Line: And silent flit away. QUEEN WASP First Line: Why rouse from thy long winter sleep? Last Line: Back to my self am gone QUICKELS First Line: The quickel-fish a-quiver in parana-tinga river never Last Line: Thirst for more! QUIET Poem Text First Line: Mutely the mole toils on Last Line: When naught but an image of the loved one's nigh. RACHEL Poem Text First Line: Rachel sings sweet Last Line: And of memory. RAILWAY JUNCTION First Line: From here through tunnelled gloom the track Last Line: One into darkening hills leads on, %and one toward distant seas? RAIN First Line: I woke in the swimming dark Last Line: Till night was gone RAINBOW (2) First Line: Stood twice ten thousand warriors on green grass Last Line: And, sleeping, smiled again that night - his head upon %his pillow Subject(s): Rainbows RAPIDS First Line: Grieve must my heart age hastens by Last Line: Now parting draweth near RARITIES First Line: Beauty, and grace, and wit are rare Last Line: Good nature and good sense RATS First Line: Foul vermin they Last Line: Wash its whiskered face RECLUSE First Line: Here lies (where all at peace may be Last Line: To die, as he had lived, a child RECONCILIATION First Line: Leave april now, and autumn having Last Line: And quiet have! REFLECTION First Line: Empty and cold is the night without REFLECTIONS First Line: So much herself she is that when she is near REFLECTIONS First Line: Three sisters - and the youngest Last Line: The dark gaze of truth REJECTED First Line: When you in paradise find grace REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: The sky was like a waterdrop Last Line: Of all most dead to me. RESERVED First Line: ... I was thinking, mother, of that poor old horse Last Line: Gilded the globe, reserved for man, %preparing for the night REUNION (1) First Line: Tryants - the slaves of intermittent dread Last Line: And all else verges towards paradise REUNION (2) Poem Text First Line: Where twilight broods o'er acheron Last Line: Age turn again to thee! REVENANT First Line: Thou art, then, come? Years are but days. But days Last Line: Pursuing thee, past capture, in the tomb REVERIE (1) Poem Text First Line: Bring not bright candles, for his eyes Last Line: Palaces in the sky! REVERIE (2) Poem Text First Line: When slim sophia mounts her horse Last Line: She paces to. RHYMES AND VERSES: ALL BUT BLIND First Line: All but blind %in his chambered hole Last Line: So, blind to some-one %I must be RICHARD HALLADAY Poem Text First Line: Each in place as god did 'gree Last Line: Ask again -- ask again! Subject(s): Epitaphs RIFT First Line: We argue on of gods, not god Last Line: What you reject in mine.' RISEN SUN First Line: I lay a while, exulting in its light Last Line: That dared not meet its gaze ROBIN First Line: Ghost-grey the fall of night Subject(s): Robins ROBIN First Line: As little bess was walking home Last Line: Left empty the round pebble-stone ROMANCE First Line: Well, then, you ask me what is real Last Line: The vineyards of romance ROOKS IN OCTOBER First Line: They sweep up, crying, riding the wind Last Line: I watched them as a child! ROOM First Line: Pot on the mantel; picture; clock Last Line: They are not out of mind ROSE First Line: Three centuries now are gone Last Line: Pleading of things he loved, it sings of rose ROSE First Line: He comes to where a seeding rose Last Line: His solitude to share ROSE IN CANDLELIGHT First Line: The oil in wild aladdin's lamp Last Line: And only representative.' ROSE IN WATER First Line: A rose in water, to its stem Last Line: Gives even its thorns their share ROUND First Line: I watched, upon a vase's rim Last Line: And idle did remain RUBY First Line: There was an old bhoojah of ghat Last Line: There might blaze unseen a great ruby RUINOUS ABBEY First Line: Stilled the meek glory of thy music Last Line: Thy peace for ever won! SADLY, O SADLY, THE SWEET BELLS OF BADDELEY SAFETY FIRST First Line: Do not mention this young child's beauty as he stands there Last Line: But of speech, not a word: just a smile. Beware of the evil %eye! SAID FLORES' First Line: If I had a drop of attar Last Line: Where then should I go?' SAID JANE First Line: Said jane to the old fisherman Last Line: When they their talk began SALLIE First Line: When sallie with her pitcher goes Last Line: Ah! Would 'twere love for me! SALLIE'S MUSICAL BOX First Line: Once it made music, tiny, frail, yet sweet Last Line: Whose toy it was, has gone; and taken the key SAM Poem Text First Line: When sam goes back in memory Last Line: Morning would find me gone.' SAM LOVER Poem Text First Line: Poor sam lover Last Line: His wildness over. Subject(s): Epitaphs SAM'S THREE WISHES: OR LIFE'S LITTLE WHIRLIGIG Poem Text First Line: I'm thinking and thinking,' said old sam shore Last Line: Are bound to continue -- well -- ad infinitum! SAMMIE GURDON Poem Text First Line: Maybe, my friend, thou'rt main athirst' Last Line: Will warmly welcome thee. Subject(s): Epitaphs SANTA CLAUS (1) First Line: Hast thou, in fancy, trodden where lie Last Line: There dwells thy loved santa claus' Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus SANTA CLAUS (2) First Line: On wool-soft feet he peeps and creeps Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus SATIRE' First Line: The dying man on his pillow Last Line: At the ash in the grate SCHOLARS Poem Text First Line: Logic does well at school Last Line: And wakes to dream all night. Subject(s): Schools; Students SEA-MAGIC; TO R.I. Poem Text First Line: My heart faints in me for the distant sea Last Line: Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home. Subject(s): Ingpen, Roger; Sea; Ocean SEA-NYMPH First Line: There was an old mariner Last Line: Clap - clap - clap - clap - clapped SECOND CHILDHOOD First Line: What! Heartsick still, grown old and grey SECOND THOUGHTS First Line: Gone the promise, pains and care SECOND-HAND First Line: Courage, poor fool! Ripe though thy tare-crop be Last Line: Some herb of grace was there, though not thine own SECRET First Line: A hidden self rebels, its slumber broken Last Line: All things to silence come SECRET (1) First Line: Open your eyes!...Now, look, and see! Last Line: Give you my life, too, if I could SECRET (2) First Line: I bless the hand that once held mine Last Line: And divine silence is SEE, HERE'S THE WARANT...' First Line: The day has foundered, and dead midnight's here Last Line: Its witching wildfire back SEEDS First Line: The seeds I sowed - %for weeks unseen Last Line: To bask in sunshine, %see the day SEEN AND HEARD First Line: Lovely things these eyes have seen Last Line: For but one faint-hued cowslip, one wild rose SELF TO SELF First Line: Wouldst thou then happy be Last Line: If thou'rt in heaven or hell SEPHINA Poem Text First Line: Black lacqueys at the wide-flung door Last Line: Was ever cheek so wan? SHADOW First Line: When the last of gloaming's gone Last Line: White as snow SHADOW (1) Poem Text First Line: Even the beauty of the rose doth cast Last Line: The beauty of heaven's shadowless asphodel? SHADOW (2) First Line: Beware! - breathes the faint evening wind? Last Line: The outcast at thy door SHADOWS First Line: The horse in the field Last Line: When the new day was born SHE First Line: Stay, and hearken; low I lie Last Line: Thinkest thou I'm at rest?' SHE IN THY DREAMS WATCH OVER THEE First Line: She in thy dreams watch over thee! Last Line: Loose thee to earth again! SHE SAID First Line: She said, 'I will come back again Last Line: And even pining's done SHE'S ME FORGOT Poem Text First Line: Me who have sailed Last Line: She's thee forgot! Variant Title(s): Andy's Love Song SHEEP First Line: Early sunbeams shafting the beech-boles Last Line: But, strangely indwelling, those shapes of stone SHELLFISH First Line: Here I saw the mist roll inland Last Line: Mid the beating of the sea SHEPHERD First Line: When I was out one morning Last Line: Day of judgment, harvest home, or %bread and cheese? SHEPHERD'S WARNING First Line: Pleasant it was, once - once to stray Last Line: Save that sullen red in the eastern skies? SHUBBLE First Line: There was an old man said, 'I fear' Last Line: He gulped down his ink with cantankerous haste, %and chopped off his head with a shubble SIGHS HAVE NO SKILL SILAS DWIGHT Poem Text First Line: Though hautboy and basoon may break Last Line: And stop out shrill, this happy morn. Subject(s): Epitaphs SILENCE Poem Text First Line: With changeful sound life beats upon the ear; Last Line: Hearkens the lightest word we say, or hear. SILLY SALLIE First Line: Silly sallie! Silly sallie! %called the boys down blind man's alley Last Line: Though it pleased the boys in blind man's alley %still to be shouting silly sallie! SILVER Poem Text First Line: Slowly, silently, now the moon Last Line: By silver reeds in a silver stream. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silver; Bedtime SINGING AND DANCING First Line: That day, that day, that gentle day Last Line: Trolly lolly leman, dow SIR WILLOUGHBY BRANKSOME Poem Text First Line: Alas! Alack! Last Line: What more is left to say? Subject(s): Epitaphs SIX AND THIRTY YEARS GONE SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Men all, and birds, and creeping beasts Last Line: That burgeons out of night. Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP-WALKER First Line: The wick lay wasting in its oil Last Line: Such paths of ecstasies SLEEPER (2) First Line: The lovely, sleeping, lay in bed Last Line: At hand, its wondrous bread SLEEPING CHILD First Line: Like night-shut flower is this slumbering face Last Line: And childhood's dreams, at least, need not forsake thee SLEEPY HEAD Poem Text First Line: As I lay awake in the white moon light Last Line: To sing of the buttercups and dew. Variant Title(s): The Gnomies SLIM CUNNING HANDS First Line: Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes Last Line: Nor all earth's flowers, how fair Subject(s): Death; Language SLUM CHILD First Line: No flower grew where I was bred Last Line: A self beyond surmise SLUMBER-SONG First Line: Lullaby, lullaby Last Line: Wan in the west SNAIL First Line: All day shut fast in whorled retreat Last Line: Nor moonshine's slumbrous dew SNARE First Line: Poets tell over to a lulling air Last Line: That god made manifest the worlds await SNOW (1) First Line: This meal-white snow Last Line: The heart sighs answer, %benedicite! Subject(s): Snow SNOW (2) Poem Text First Line: No breath of wind Last Line: His lonely tune. Subject(s): Snow SNOW-MAN First Line: What shape is this in cowl of snow? Last Line: And, at his heels, jack frost! SNOWDROP First Line: Thou break'st from earth. Thy beauty of dust is made Last Line: Yet shed her balm, and sing thee lullaby! SNOWDROP First Line: Now - now, as low I stooped, thought I Last Line: Not two of us, but three SNOWFLAKE (1) First Line: Before I melt, %come, look at me! Last Line: Breathe, and I vanish %instantly Subject(s): Snow SNOWING First Line: Snowing; snowing Last Line: To rest in eternal trance SO IT WOULD SEEM First Line: When, then, it comes at length to this Last Line: Whisper then 'lo!' then, sesame! SOFTLY, DROWSILY / OUT OF SLEEP SOLITARY BIRD First Line: Why should a bird in that solitary hollow Last Line: Bird gone, and memeory too SOLITUDE (1) First Line: Ghosts there must be with me in this old house Last Line: Soft as its own may be, beyond the pale SOLITUDE (2) First Line: Wish! And it's thine!' the changeling piped Last Line: Out of the green SOLITUDE (3) First Line: When the high road Last Line: Beware! %thou art alone! SOLITUDE (4) First Line: Space beyond space: stars needlilng into night Last Line: A moonlit drift of cloudlets, still as snow SOME ONE Poem Text First Line: Some one came knocking Last Line: At all, at all, at all. SOMEWHERE Poem Text First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips SOMEWHERE First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Last Line: The somewhere meant for me! Subject(s): Imagination; Travel SON OF MAN Poem Text First Line: Son of man, tell me Last Line: Since thou art thyself as I am. Subject(s): Epitaphs SONG Poem Text First Line: O for a moon to light me home! Last Line: Dreams still as rain! SONG FROM A PLAY First Line: Whirls now the wind with winter snow Last Line: Truth be my witness. Let it pass SONG OF SEVEN First Line: Far away, and long ago Last Line: Where is the song of seven? SOOEEP!' First Line: Black as a chimney is his face SOON First Line: Soon, soon must I forgotten be Last Line: Till thou too sleep SORCERY Poem Text First Line: What voice is that I hear Last Line: Death's stretching sea. SOTTO VOCE; TO EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text First Line: The haze of noon wanned silver-grey Last Line: And we are laid abed.' Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) SPARK First Line: Calm was the evening, as if asleep Last Line: Some omen thus the all bespeak! SPECTACLE First Line: Scan with calm bloodshot eyes the world around us Last Line: Windowless, doorless, alone SPECTRE First Line: The moment I glanced at the mirk-windowed mansion SPEECH First Line: The robin's whistled stave Last Line: His inmost sense SPOTTED FLYCATCHER First Line: Gray on gray post, this silent little bird Last Line: Sighs nature and alas? Or merely, amen? SPRING Poem Text First Line: Once when my life was young Last Line: Now that I'm old. SPRING First Line: Now the slim almond tree ST. ANDREWS First Line: Fickle of choice is memory ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL First Line: The ancient hills take the pale sun Last Line: On smoke chaotically blown STARS Poem Text First Line: If to the heavens you lift your eyes Last Line: Blood-red antares, foe to man. STAVE First Line: O my dear one Last Line: And sighs, good night STILL LIFE First Line: Bottle, course tumbler, loaf of bread Last Line: And engrossed, round-spectacled chardin's %passion for life STONE First Line: Folded hands and darkened eyes Last Line: Thou could'st not say how fair! STORM (1) First Line: First there were two of us, then there were three of us Last Line: Of sea-birds on the shore STORM (2) First Line: Now evening's dusk in haze is muffled o'er Last Line: Cold-gushing stream the torrents of the rain STRANGE SPIRIT First Line: Age shall not daunt me, nor sorrow for youth that is gone Last Line: Knowing that, life of life, thou wast hovering near STRANGE, IS IT NOT! First Line: Strange, is it not! One aged - yea, seventy-five Last Line: For talk, books, window-watch and inward thought! STRANGER (4) First Line: A little after twilight Last Line: Who'd danced in the same? STRANGER, A LIGHT I PRAY! STRANGER, A MOMENT PAUSE, AND STAY STRANGERS First Line: The sad bells sound Last Line: Am far from home' STRATAGEM First Line: Here's the cave where sorrow dwells Last Line: Else we too grow shadowy! SUMMER EVENING Poem Text First Line: The sandy cat by the farmer's chair Last Line: Gone is another summer's day. Subject(s): Animals SUMMONS First Line: What bodiless bird so wildly sings Last Line: Only itself could tell?' SUN First Line: O, after winter's wrath what loveliness Last Line: Praise in his footprints, love in either hand Subject(s): Sun SUNDAY First Line: A child in the sabbath peace, there Last Line: Down by the full-bosomed river SUNK LYONESSE Poem Text First Line: In sea-cold lyonesse Last Line: Caged in his stone-ribbed side. SUNRISE First Line: Bliss it is at break of day Last Line: His glory greets the candle-frame in mine SUPPER First Line: I supped where bloomed the red rose Last Line: Seemed as I dreamed the only things %that had ever stirred SUPPER First Line: Her pinched grey body Last Line: Evening comes SUPPOSE (1) Poem Text First Line: Suppose ... And suppose that a wild little horse of magic Last Line: Suppose. . . And suppose. . .' SUPPOSE (2) First Line: Suppose the year were but a month Last Line: The mere idea, per se SUSANNA HARBERT, SPINSTER Poem Text First Line: Let upon my bosom be Last Line: Will sweeten this ancient haunt of death. Subject(s): Epitaphs SUSANNAH FRY Poem Text First Line: Here sleep I Last Line: Under the rose. Subject(s): Epitaphs SUSANNAH PROUT Poem Text First Line: Here lies my wife Last Line: Come back to me. Subject(s): Epitaphs SWALLLOWS FLOWN First Line: Whence comes that small continuous silence Last Line: Had vanished - could not stay? SWIFTS First Line: No' they are only birds - swifts, in the loft of the morning Last Line: Of him that bringeth good tidings, proclaimeth the gospel of peace! TACITURN First Line: Countless these crosses and these ruinous stones Last Line: Think not because I am silent, I forget TANK First Line: If I had a little money' mused the reverend philip fish Last Line: I'm sure, you know, my thoughts would turn to tanks!' TARBURY STEEP First Line: The moon in her gold over tarbury steep Last Line: In the moonshime of tarbury steep TARES First Line: The seeds of childhood and of youth Last Line: And in my memory bleats a goat TARTARY Poem Text First Line: If I were lord of tartary Last Line: In every purple vale! TAT FOR TIT First Line: Shrill, glass-clear notes - 'titmouse!' I sighed, enchanted Last Line: Its wheels in need of grease TELL ME...' First Line: Tell me why I am sad Last Line: Oh, 'tis because I love, since love I must TENT First Line: How cool a tent! Last Line: And what is in that box Subject(s): Tents THAMES First Line: There flows a wonderful water Last Line: Sea-havens to thames THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: It was about the deep of night Last Line: And judas one of three. Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE BANDOG Poem Text First Line: Has anybody seen my mopser? Last Line: When civilly addressed. THE BARBER'S Poem Text First Line: Gold locks, and black locks Last Line: In the bright, blue day. Subject(s): Barbers THE BEES' SONG Poem Text First Line: Thousandz of thornz there be Last Line: Of far-away zzzee. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BELLS Poem Text First Line: Shadow and light both strove to be Last Line: And stillness made even lovelier seem. THE BINDWEED Poem Text First Line: The bindweed roots pierce down Last Line: Brimmed with reflected day. THE BIRD SET FREE Poem Text First Line: No marvel, sweet, you clap your wings Last Line: Who hungers too!' THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F Poem Text First Line: Dearest, it was a night Last Line: Thou, lovely thing. Subject(s): Birth; Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BLIND BOY (1) Poem Text First Line: I have no master,' said the blind boy Last Line: The saddest rogue on earth!' THE BOOKWORM Poem Text First Line: I'm tired - oh, tired of books,' said jack Last Line: I'm tired of books,' said jack. THE BOY Poem Text First Line: Finger on lip I ever stand Last Line: Stooping to speak to thee. Subject(s): Epitaphs THE BUCKLE Poem Text First Line: I had a silver buckle Last Line: May tell of it at all. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE BURNING-GLASS First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE CAGE (1) Poem Text First Line: Why did you flutter in vain hope, poor bird Last Line: Sorrow for where you are, for where you would be. THE CATECHISM Poem Text First Line: Hast thou then nought wiser to bring Last Line: With a dream.' THE CHANGELING (1) Poem Text First Line: Ahoy, and ahoy!' Last Line: And tremble away. THE CHILD IN THE STORY AWAKES Poem Text First Line: The light of dawn rose on my dreams Last Line: Sweetly the morning star is set.' THE CHILD IN THE STORY GOES TO BED Poem Text First Line: I prythee, nurse, come smooth my hair Last Line: Till dawn another day shall bring. THE CHILDREN OF STARE Poem Text First Line: Winter is fallen early Last Line: By the awful breath of god. THE CHRISTENING Poem Text First Line: The bells chime clear Last Line: Be love their lullaby! THE COMB Poem Text First Line: My mother sate me at her glass Last Line: On high this spangling comb. THE COMPANION Poem Text First Line: If I should from my grave arise Last Line: More sweet than these. THE COQUETTE Poem Text First Line: Yearn thou may'st Last Line: And will. THE CORNER STONE Poem Text First Line: Sterile these stones Last Line: Of all he has done? THE CUPBOARD Poem Text First Line: I know a little cupboard Last Line: For me, me, me. Subject(s): Cupboards; Food & Eating THE DARK CHATEAU Poem Text First Line: In dreams a dark chateau Last Line: My dark chateau. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DEATH-DREAM Poem Text First Line: Who, now, put dreams into thy slumbering mind? Last Line: Called back to thee across the eternal stream? Subject(s): Sleep THE DECOY Poem Text First Line: Tell us, o pilgrim, what strange she Last Line: And none fore-tokens rest.' THE DISGUISE Poem Text First Line: Why in my heart, o grief Last Line: Pierce the skies. THE DOUBLE Poem Text First Line: I curtseyed to the dovecote Last Line: A-dancing there again. THE DUNCE (1) Poem Text First Line: Why does he still keep ticking? Last Line: And what do I care if it does? THE DWARF Poem Text First Line: Now, jinnie, my dear, to the dwarf be off Last Line: Who ever drew tears from a well! THE DWELLING-PLACE Poem Text First Line: Deep in a forest where the kestrel screamed Last Line: That worn 'alas!' THE EMPTY HOUSE Poem Text First Line: See this house, how dark it is Last Line: Beneath these thick-boughed trees! Variant Title(s): The Dark House THE ENCHANTED HILL Poem Text First Line: From height of noon, remote and still Last Line: Morning enshrines the empty hill. THE ENGLISHMAN Poem Text First Line: I met a sailor in the woods Last Line: With painted eyes to sea. Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; English; Seamen; Sails THE EXILE Poem Text First Line: I am that adam who, with snake for guest Last Line: But to heaven's nothingness re-welcome eve? THE FAIRIES DANCING Poem Text First Line: I heard along the early hills Last Line: The towers and groves of arroar. THE FAIRY IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: There was a fairy - flake of winter Last Line: Bare, rimed pine-woods murmured lament. THE FAIRY-PEDLAR'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Of your 'nevolent nature Last Line: And the taper burns dull! THE FAMILIAR Poem Text First Line: Are you far away?' Last Line: And cold tempests of rain.' THE FIDDLERS Poem Text First Line: Nine feat fiddlers had good queen bess Last Line: Fiddlers squealed shrill on their topmost c. THE FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: How do the days press on, and lay Last Line: Tis then I seek my kind. THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Listen, I who love thee well Last Line: Twould lull thy soul to sleep. Variant Title(s): Tidings THE FLY (1) Poem Text First Line: How large unto the tiny fly Last Line: As lambkins to a shepherd. THE FOOL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Never, no never, listen too long Last Line: With platter and finger and spoon -- and good victuals at least. THE FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: They dressed us up in black Last Line: He was so tired, poor thing. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE GAGE Poem Text First Line: Lady jane, o lady jane! Last Line: Beloved as well as loving. THE GALLIASS Poem Text First Line: Tell me, tell me Last Line: She alone burns none to prove her sleep. THE GHOST Poem Text First Line: Peace in thy hands Last Line: All sorrowing now. THE GLIMPSE Poem Text First Line: Art thou asleep? Or have thy wings Last Line: And then is gone. THE GREY WOLF Poem Text First Line: A fagot, a fagot, go fetch for the fire, son!' Last Line: Thy son (save his hatchet) thou'lt never see more.' THE HAPPY ENCOUNTER Poem Text First Line: I saw sweet poetry turn troubled eyes Last Line: In those grey deeps the azure of her own. THE HARE Poem Text First Line: In the black furrow of a field Last Line: She fled, and left the moonlight there. THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL' First Line: The flowers of the field THE HOMEY ROBBERS Poem Text First Line: There were two fairies, gimmul and mel Last Line: Thieves of a guise remotely fair. THE HORN Poem Text First Line: Hark! Is that a horn I hear Last Line: Hushed the shepherd's call. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE HORSEMAN (1) Poem Text First Line: I heard a horseman Last Line: Was of ivory. THE HORSEMAN (2) Poem Text First Line: There was a horseman rode so fast Last Line: Since both were now leagues -- leagues away. THE HOSTAGE Poem Text First Line: In dead of dark to the starry north Last Line: And thine own son to be.' THE HOUR-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Thou who know'st all the sorrows of this earth Last Line: Tis stricken man in men that pleads with thee. THE HUNTSMEN Poem Text First Line: Three jolly gentlemen Last Line: And galloped away. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE IMAGINATION'S PRIDE Poem Text First Line: Be not too wildly amorous of the far Last Line: In thine own bosom hides his utmost love. THE IMP WITHIN Poem Text First Line: Rouse now, my dullard, and thy wits awake Last Line: Come quick to-morrow. Until then, adieu.' THE ISLE OF LONE Poem Text First Line: Three dwarfs there were which lived in an isle Last Line: For thee, o muziomone! THE JOURNEY (1) Poem Text First Line: Heart-sick of his journey was the wanderer; Last Line: Inhospitality. THE KEYS OF MORNING Poem Text First Line: While at her bedroom window once Last Line: The littlest in the air. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE KING IN SLUMBER WHEN HE LIES DOWN THE LADY GODIVA (1) Poem Text First Line: The lady godiva, all tender and fair Last Line: And of folk to be pitied there's none like the blind. Subject(s): Godiva, Lady (1140-1180) THE LAMPLILGHTER Poem Text First Line: When the light of day declineth Last Line: And putteth out the lamps. THE LAST COACHLOAD; TO COLIN Poem Text First Line: Crashed through the woods that lumbering coach. The dust Last Line: Scamper, breathe -- 'paradise!' abscond, are gone. . . . THE LINNET Poem Text First Line: Upon this leafy bush Last Line: Might vanish in song. Subject(s): Linnets THE LISTENERS Poem Text First Line: Is there anbody there?' said the traveller Last Line: When the plunging hoofs were gone. Subject(s): Ghosts; Religion; Supernatural; Theology THE LISTENERS: NIGHT Poem Text First Line: That shining moon - watched by that one faint star Last Line: And only the lovelier for continuing strange. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE LITTLE BIRD Poem Text First Line: My dear daddie bought a mansion Last Line: Wee small bird. And that was me. Subject(s): Home THE LITTLE CREATURE Poem Text First Line: Twinkum, twankum, twirlum and twitch Last Line: My great grandam -- she was a witch. THE LITTLE GREEN ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Some one is always sitting there Last Line: In the little green orchard. THE LITTLE OLD CUPID Poem Text First Line: Twas a very small garden Last Line: He stood aiming at me. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE LITTLE SALAMANDER Poem Text First Line: When I go free Last Line: Dance burning through the night. THE LOST SHOE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lucy Last Line: For her lost shoe. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE MARIONETTES Poem Text First Line: Let the foul scene proceed Last Line: And affrights even fear. THE MARKET-PLACE Poem Text First Line: My mind is like a clamorous market-place Last Line: Abandoned utterly in haste and fear. THE MASSACRE Poem Text First Line: The shadow of a poplar tree Last Line: On one who dreamed. THE MERMAIDS Poem Text First Line: Sand, sand; hills of sand; Last Line: From the darkling caves. THE MIDGET Poem Text First Line: Just a span and half a span Last Line: He keeps his own small darkened house. Subject(s): Epitaphs THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN Poem Text First Line: Parched were my lips with drought of noon Last Line: The glory that might have been.' THE MILLER AND HIS SON Poem Text First Line: A twangling harp for mary Last Line: The miller and his son.' THE MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Who beckons the green ivy up Last Line: All but 'o alma!' nought. THE MOCKING FAIRY Poem Text First Line: Won't you look out of your window mrs. Gill?' Last Line: The fairy mimbling, mambling in the garden. THE MONOLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Alas, o lovely one Last Line: For sanity's sake. THE MOTH Poem Text First Line: Isled in the midnight air Last Line: To her strange tryst. Subject(s): Moths THE MOTHER BIRD Poem Text First Line: Through the green twilight of a hedge Last Line: Patient upon her lonely nest. Subject(s): Animals THE MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Still and blanched and cold and lone Last Line: And thirsts for their untroubled snows. THE MULGAR JOURNEY SONG Poem Text First Line: In munza a mulgar once lived alone Last Line: Drown-ded was dubbuldideery! THE MULGARS FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Far away in nanga-noon Last Line: Sulani, ghar magleer. Variant Title(s): Gar Nulgar-dusangee;marching Song THE MULLA-MULGARS' JOURNEY SONG Poem Text First Line: That one / alone Last Line: And walk unharmed where'er he goes. THE NIGHT-SWANS Poem Text First Line: Tis silence on the enchanted lake Last Line: She answers not again. THE OGRE Poem Text First Line: Tis moonlight on trebarwith sands Last Line: As he went striding by. THE OLD ANGLER Poem Text First Line: Twilight leaned mirrored in a pool Last Line: Dangling a baitless hook. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE OLD HOUSE Poem Text First Line: A very, very old house I know Last Line: Into that very old house I know. THE OLD KING Poem Text First Line: Woke - the old king of cumberland Last Line: His heart stood still. THE OLD MEN Poem Text First Line: Old and alone, sit we Last Line: Yet, reluctant, we go. THE OLD SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: There came an old soldier to my door Last Line: A fol-rol-dol-rol-di-do. Subject(s): Soldiers THE OLD STONE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Nothing on the grey roof, nothing on the brown Last Line: Peeps closely through the casement as my step goes by. THE OTHER Poem Text First Line: The forest ended. Glad I was Last Line: Until he ceases. Then I also shall cease. THE OWL (2) Poem Text First Line: What if to edge of dream Last Line: To shatter its dream? Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE PATH Poem Text First Line: Is it an abbey that I see Last Line: No longer stray!' THE PEDLAR Poem Text First Line: There came a pedlar to an evening house Last Line: Dew lies on grave-flowers this selfsame day. THE PENNY OWING Poem Text First Line: Poor blind tam, the beggar man Last Line: And the penny I grudged kept safe for you.' Variant Title(s): Blind Tam THE PHANTOM (1) Poem Text First Line: Upstairs in the large closet, child Last Line: She hath sweet company. THE PHANTOM (2) Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou never come again Last Line: Beauteous one! THE PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Here is a sea-legged sailor Last Line: The painter has kept to himself. THE PIGS AND THE CHARCOAL-BURNER Poem Text First Line: The old pig said to the little pigs Last Line: At his sullen blaze. THE PILGRIM Poem Text First Line: Shall we help you with your bundle Last Line: In sight of home! THE PORTRAIT OF A WARRIOR Poem Text First Line: His brow is seamed with line and scar Last Line: Time hath not dimmed nor death dismayed. THE QUARRY Poem Text First Line: You hunted me with all the pack Last Line: Hunts out his heart and eyes. THE QUARTETTE Poem Text First Line: Tom sang for joy and ned sang for joy and old sam sang for joy Last Line: How the eyes of them cried for delight, when we sang our quartette. THE QUEEN OF ARABIA, UANJINEE THE QUIET ENEMY Poem Text First Line: Hearken! - now the hermit bee Last Line: Hold ajar the wicket gate. THE RAINBOW (1) Poem Text First Line: I saw the lovely arch Last Line: And the bow was gone. Subject(s): Rainbows THE RAVEN'S TOMB Poem Text First Line: Build me my tomb,' the raven said Last Line: In his tomb is laid away.' Subject(s): Graves; Ravens; Tombs; Tombstones THE REAWAKENING Poem Text First Line: Green in light are the hills, and a calm wind flowing Last Line: Springs, like a child from the womb, when the lonely one calls. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE REMONSTRANCE Poem Text First Line: I was at peace until you came Last Line: The thunder of an ebbing sea. THE RIDDLERS Poem Text First Line: Thou solitary!' the blackbird cried Last Line: Into the midnight air. Subject(s): Birds THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Up on their brooms the witches stream Last Line: Under the silver, and home again. Subject(s): Supernatural THE RUIN Poem Text First Line: When the last colors of the day Last Line: Tinges their tiny acorn shoon. THE SCARECROW Poem Text First Line: All winter through I bow my head Last Line: For harvest once again. Subject(s): Scarecrows THE SCRIBE Poem Text First Line: What lovely things / thy hand hath made Last Line: Thou, lord, and I. Subject(s): God; Secretaries THE SEA BOY Poem Text First Line: Peter went - and nobody there Last Line: And sang his riddle-cum-ree. THE SEAS OF ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: The seas of england are our old delight Last Line: To all earth's ships that sailing heave in sight! THE SHADE Poem Text First Line: Darker than night; and, oh, much darker, she Last Line: To gloomy hades and the whispering shore! THE SHIP OF RIO Poem Text First Line: There was a ship of rio Last Line: For nuts across the sand! Subject(s): Monkeys; Sea; Ocean THE SILVER PENNY Poem Text First Line: Sailorman, I'll give to you Last Line: A bright silver penny. THE SLEEPER (1) Poem Text First Line: As ann came in one summer's day Last Line: And tiptoed out again. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: The scent of bramble fills the air Last Line: On winter-haunted trees. Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE SNOWFLAKE (2) Poem Text First Line: See, now, this filigree: 'tis snow Last Line: And earth shut in his grave. Subject(s): Snow THE SON OF MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: Unto blest melancholy's house one happy day Last Line: Share thou this pictured joy with me, though only a dream.' THE SONG OF FINIS Poem Text First Line: At the edge of all the ages Last Line: And quiet did quiet remain. THE SONG OF SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: As I sat musing by the frozen dyke Last Line: And behind me roared the drums, rang the trumpets of the sea. THE SONG OF THE MAD PRINCE Poem Text First Line: Who said, 'peacock pie'? Last Line: That's what I said. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Mad Prince THE SONG OF THE SECRET Poem Text First Line: Where is beauty? Last Line: Secret as dream. THE SONG OF THE SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: Sweep thy faint strings, musician Last Line: Home once more. THE SPANIARD Poem Text First Line: Laid in this english ground Last Line: To cry his sins so far from home! Subject(s): Epitaphs THE SPECTRE Poem Text First Line: In cloudy quiet of the day Last Line: For the true and fair!' THE SPIRIT OF AIR Poem Text First Line: Coral and clear emerald Last Line: And darkness above. THE STRANGER (1) Poem Text First Line: In the woods as I did walk Last Line: Of the words he said. THE STRANGER (2) Poem Text First Line: Half-hidden in a graveyard Last Line: Its secret with the dead. THE STRANGER (3) Poem Text First Line: In the nook of a wood where a pool freshed with dew Last Line: Unhumanly lovely. . . And supped in that place. THE SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: Did these night-hung houses Last Line: Cold is this breast.' THE SUNKEN GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Speak not - whisper not Last Line: That one little leaden lad. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE SUPPER Poem Text First Line: A wolf he pricks with eyes of fire Last Line: While jane unharmed goes. THE TAILOR Poem Text First Line: Few footsteps stray when dusk droops o'er Last Line: He'll mutter half a seam away. Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers THE THIEF AT ROBIN'S CASTLE Poem Text First Line: There came a thief one night to robin's castle Last Line: Spent all their days in grief. THE THREE BEGGARS Poem Text First Line: Twas autumn daybreak gold and wild Last Line: And blessed the good st. Ann. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Fairies; Elves THE THREE CHERRY TREES Poem Text First Line: There were three cherry trees once Last Line: That happy and beautiful lady. THE THREE STRANGERS Poem Text First Line: Far are those tranquil hills Last Line: For their grave courtesy. THE TIRED CUPID Poem Text First Line: The thin moonlight with trickling ray Last Line: Shadow beclouds his childlike brow. THE TRUANTS Poem Text First Line: Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly Last Line: Magic hath stolen away. THE TRYST (1) Poem Text First Line: Flee into some forgotten night and be Last Line: Shall win what changeless vague of peace he can. THE TRYST (4) Poem Text First Line: Are you very peaceful there, thomas nunn?' Last Line: "my tryst with thee to keep.""'" THE TWO HOUSES Poem Text First Line: In the strange city of life Last Line: Where dark doth dwell. THE UNCHANGING Poem Text First Line: After the songless rose of evening Last Line: Burned far and fair. THE UNFINISHED DREAM Poem Text First Line: Rare-sweet the air in that unimagined country Last Line: Strange to me: strange. . . . THE UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: I heard a little child beneath the stars Last Line: Fond universe asleep! Subject(s): Sleep THE VACANT DAY Poem Text First Line: As I walked out in meadows green Last Line: What kept him still away. THE VEIL Poem Text First Line: I think and think; yet still I fail Last Line: A daylight face, those starry eyes? Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE VEIL: THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Horizon to horizon, lies outspread Last Line: He sought companion in earth's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Flowers THE VIRGIN Poem Text First Line: Blessed mary, pity me Last Line: To shower a lifetime's sorrows on. Subject(s): Epitaphs THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: We are not often alone, we two,' Subject(s): Supernatural THE VOICE OF MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: Return from out thy stillness, though the dust Last Line: Whence learnedst thou of the riches of the grave? THE WANDERERS Poem Text First Line: Within my mind two spirits strayed Last Line: At least in their own light. THE WATER MIDDEN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Bubble, bubble, / swim to see Last Line: For singing's sake. THE WIDOW (1) Poem Text First Line: Art thou a widow? Then, my friend Last Line: Dust of thy loved one rest near by! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Widows & Widowers THE WILLOW Poem Text First Line: Leans now the fair willow, dreaming Last Line: Burns the sun in the skies. THE WINDOW (1) Poem Text First Line: Behind the blinds I sit and watch Last Line: Nor'll guess when I am gone. THE WINTER-BOY Poem Text First Line: I saw jack frost come louping o'er Last Line: His icy locks between. THE WORLD OF DREAM Poem Text First Line: Now, through the dusk Last Line: Of the world of dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WRECK Poem Text First Line: Storm and unconscionable winds once cast Last Line: And, sipping of contrast, finds the day more fair. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THEN Poem Text First Line: Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty Last Line: Three! -- and a storm of hail!' THEN AS NOW First Line: Then as now; and now as then Last Line: Still spins on this world of men THEOLOGIANS First Line: They argued on till dead of night Last Line: Daybreak their very faces proved divine! THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY THERE RODE A MILLER ON A HORSE Last Line: With a hey, and a hey, lollie, lo! THERE SATE GOOD QUEEN BESS Poem Text First Line: There sate good queen bess, oh Last Line: My money's gone! THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN OF BUMBLE BHOSEY Last Line: A-bleaching on the bushes! THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN THE FENS THERE WAS SWEET WATER ONCE Last Line: Those gentle haunts again THERE WERE LEAVES ON THE BRANCHES LIKE SILVER Last Line: And me staring out through the glass THESE SOLEMN HILLS First Line: These solemn hills are silent now that night Last Line: The lapwing's slow, sad, anguished %pee-oo-eet THEY TOLD ME Poem Text First Line: They told me pan was dead, but I Last Line: Tears of an antique bitterness. Variant Title(s): Tears THIEF First Line: Once was a thief of london town Last Line: By the bright chalk cliffs of dover Subject(s): Crime And Criminals THINGS First Line: Things are the mind's mute looking-glass Last Line: What kind of self awaits me there THIS BRIEF DAY NOW OVER THIS IS THE END First Line: This is the end': the anguished word Last Line: Colder than churchyard stone Variant Title(s): The En THIS LITTLE MORSEL OF MORSELS HERE THOMAS HARDY First Line: Mingled the moonlight with daylight - the last in the narrowing west Last Line: Tey thine, too, this solacing music, as we earthfolk stumble along.' Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry And Poets THOMAS LOGGE Poem Text First Line: Here lies thomas logge - a rascally dogge Last Line: Should be at him again. Subject(s): Epitaphs THONMAS GROAT Poem Text First Line: All men are mortal, and I know't Last Line: Gone for to seek his crown. Subject(s): Epitaphs THORN First Line: O thou who pausest here Last Line: And with warm hand touch hand THOU ART MY LONG-LOST PEACE THOUGHTS First Line: The greenwood sighs Last Line: Wakes them in me? Subject(s): Thought THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO THREE First Line: Three little jimp little bodies there be Last Line: And all little boys would go bare THREE SCORE YEARS I LIVED Poem Text First Line: Three score years I lived; and then Last Line: Hence, this unutterable darke. Subject(s): Epitaphs THREE SISTERS Poem Text First Line: Three sisters rest beneath Last Line: And adelaide. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sisters THRUSH First Line: Even earlier yet this listening thrush Last Line: To help her feed her family! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THRUSH' First Line: That speckled thrush, perched nimbly on its spray Last Line: Yet words can never say THULE (1) Poem Text First Line: If thou art sweet as they are sad Last Line: Of the waves onset faint for thee! THULE (2) Poem Text First Line: Green-cupped the acorn, ripened the pear Last Line: Thule? Atlantis? Arcadia?. . . . THUNDER First Line: Call the cows home! Last Line: Call the cows home! THUS HER TALE First Line: Spake the fire-tinged bramble, bossed with gleaming fruit and %blossoming Last Line: Though her blood still cries for vengeance on her murderer from %this brake!' TILLIE Poem Text First Line: Old tillie turveycombe Last Line: Floating by. TIME PASSES Poem Text First Line: There was nought in the valley Last Line: Once lovely as ivory. TIME, LOVE AND LIFE First Line: I saw young time with laughter in his eyes Last Line: Leave all dreams else to take his little rest TIMOTHY BLACKSTONE Poem Text First Line: O death, have care Last Line: And weep for me! Subject(s): Epitaphs TINTERN ABBEY First Line: A frozen music, yes, this ruinous stone Last Line: And every weed in its cranny whispers 'hark!' TIRED TIM Poem Text First Line: Poor tired tim! It's sad for him Last Line: Poor tired tim! It's sad for him. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TIT FOR TAT Poem Text First Line: Have you been catching of fish, tom noddy? Last Line: Till you are cooked yourself! Subject(s): Animals TITMOUSE Poem Text First Line: If you would happy company win Last Line: Sweet-fed, will flit away. Subject(s): Animals TO A BUTTERFLY First Line: We have met Subject(s): Animals TO A CANDLE First Line: Burn stilly, thou; and come with me TO A CHILD Poem Text First Line: If I could but be happy Last Line: On your beauty, my dear. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO BED First Line: Candle lank and lean and pale Last Line: Against the dark! TO CORINNA, FROWNING First Line: Dark, historied eyes Last Line: Well, with this 'thinking'? TO E. T.: 1917 Poem Text First Line: You sleep too well - too far away Last Line: Had wept for you, my dear. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War I; First World War TO K.M. First Line: We sat and talked...It was june, and the summer light Last Line: Dark hair, dark eyes, slim shoulder.... %god-speed, k.M.! TO MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Thine is my all, how little when 'tis told Last Line: Twixt thee and me! Variant Title(s): Envoy: To My Mother Subject(s): Mothers TO ROSE First Line: Eat, drink and be merry, he said Last Line: Raise up the ghost of a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO SOME MOST HAPPY MEN Poem Text First Line: To some most happy men the grace is given Last Line: Where springs the fountain of her genius. TO-MORROW WAITS ME AT MY GATE Last Line: Be only winter there! TOBAGO First Line: There was an old man with delilght Last Line: And wrote a long ode to tobago TOM HEAD Poem Text First Line: I rang yon bells a score of years Last Line: As made it seem to sigh. Subject(s): Epitaphs TOM'S ANGEL First Line: No one was in the fields Last Line: And we were safe again TOM'S LITTLE DOG First Line: Tom told his dog called tom to beg Last Line: And down the sugar goes! TOMTIT First Line: Twilight had fallen, austere and grey Subject(s): Animals TOO-WHIT, OR TOO-WHOO Last Line: If you look at the moon TOWER First Line: There were no flowers among the stones of the %wilderness Last Line: Remote as the stars in the vague of the past TRAVELLER First Line: This traveller broke at length, toward set of sun Last Line: Inn at the cross roads, and the traveller's rest Subject(s): Travel TRAVELLER, FORBEAR TREACHERY Poem Text First Line: She had amid her ringlets bound Last Line: That vow -- the soul of it? TREASURE First Line: Reason as patiently as moth and rust Last Line: #name? TREES Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees in england Last Line: For them that lie forlorn. TRUANTS First Line: This sabath morning - all good folk in church Last Line: A spotted flycatcher on his well-worn perch TRUCE Poem Text First Line: Far inland here death's pinions mocked the roar Last Line: Us and our enemies. TRUTH OF THINGS First Line: You might have told me the truth of things!' Last Line: Are mine as strangely clear?' TRYST (2) First Line: Faint now the colours in the west Last Line: Trespassing in this wood TRYST (3) First Line: O whither are you faring to, my swetheart? Last Line: Were he still true, my dear.' TU QUOQUE First Line: A frigid, mute cold christmas eve Last Line: That 'whither?' and that 'why?' TULIP First Line: There was an old begum of frome Last Line: How happy the yogis in leicester! Subject(s): Tulips TWAS A CUCKOO, CRIED 'CUCK-OO' TWELVE OF THE CLOCK First Line: Twelve of the clock - lost hour when lovers' ghosts Last Line: Then twelve of the clock - the hour for lovers' ghosts Subject(s): Time TWICE LOVELY First Line: Chalk-white, light dazzled on the stone TWILIGHT First Line: When to the inward darkness of my mind Last Line: Steals through the scarce-seen shadow of your hair TWINKKUM First Line: Twinkum, twirlum, twistum, twy Last Line: Blindman's in, and round we go TWO BIRDS First Line: Gentle bird of tender voice Last Line: Mine will still be echoing Subject(s): Birds TWO DEEP CLEAR EYES Last Line: Does nothing but talk, talk, talk TWO GARDENS First Line: Two gardens see! - this, of enchanted flowers Last Line: But ah, how seldom open now their gates I find! TWO LALMPS First Line: Two lights well over this old oak table Last Line: I weep at the sight, like a child grown old! ULLADARE First Line: Down by thy waters, ulladare Last Line: Unless the grave? UNCIRCUMVENTIBLE First Line: Ah, if what energy I have UNDER THE ROSE First Line: Nobody, nobody told me Last Line: Cold with the morning dew UNDERCURRENT First Line: What, do you suppose we're in this world for, sweet %heart? Last Line: Sweet nought, come away, come away! UNFORESEEN First Line: Darkness had fallen. I opened the door Last Line: The quiet of mercy? Or the hush of doom? UNFORGOTTEN Poem Text First Line: When my heart wearies, and to rest are gone Last Line: Words whereof death steals not the breath away. UNHEARD MELODIES' First Line: A minstrel came singing in the way Last Line: With the burden of silence it bears UNLOVING First Line: When your strange beauty haunted every thought Last Line: Has made the world a waste, and exiled heaven? UNMEANT First Line: Oh, if I spoke unkindly, heed it not Last Line: Think not mere spindrift is the sea, my dear! UNPAUSING Poem Text First Line: O sweetest, stay! Last Line: Will seem, how lovely a tale, how briefly told! UNREGARDING Poem Text First Line: Put by thy days like withered flowers Last Line: Sudden and soon. UNRENT PATTERN First Line: I roved the past - a thousand thousand years Last Line: Listened, as yesterday, to the song of birds UNSTOOPING Poem Text First Line: Low on his fours the lion Last Line: Unstooping, to and fro. UNUTTERABLE First Line: What! Jibe in ignorance, and scold Last Line: We bide that hour in silentness UNWITTING First Line: This evening to my manuscript Last Line: Night; and a starless sky UP AND DOWN Poem Text First Line: Down the hill of ludgate Last Line: Down the hill of fleet. USURY First Line: Let be, unreasonable heart, let go Last Line: Wept, like a thwarted changeling, for the moon! VACANT FARMHOUSE First Line: Three gables; clustered chimney-stacks; a wall Last Line: Into an elder tree - for perching-place VAIN FINDING Poem Text First Line: Ever before my face there went Last Line: Grey, and dear heart, how grey! VAIN QUESTIONING Poem Text First Line: What needest thou? - a few brief hours of rest Last Line: There waits the peace thy spirit dwelleth in. VAIN QUESTIONING First Line: What needest thou - a few brief hours of rest Last Line: There waits the peace thy spirit dwelleth in VENDETA First Line: An enemy of dr. Drake's Last Line: He can't endure their quack(s)!' VERY First Line: There was a young lady of bow Last Line: But blushed, tittered, sighed, and said, 'very!' VERY SELF First Line: Clear eyes, beneath clear brows, gaze out at me Last Line: As mine stay pondering on that much-loved face VICAR OF THIS PARISH First Line: Rest now, revered and gentle sir Last Line: Than love of god nought's quieter VIGIL Poem Text First Line: Dark is the night Last Line: To warm us by. VIRTUE Poem Text First Line: Her breast is cold; her hands how faint and wan! Last Line: Grant my son's ashes lie where these men are! VISION First Line: O starry face, bound in grave strands of hair VISION First Line: I see no sense in poetry,' says glimm Last Line: And poetry, it seems, stirs none in him VISIONARY First Line: There is a pool whose waters clear Last Line: Woke once, but reawakens not VISITANT First Line: A little boy leaned down his head Last Line: The beauty of the dead Subject(s): Immortality VOICE First Line: As I sat in the gloaming Subject(s): Supernatural VOICES (1) Poem Text First Line: Who is it calling by the darkened river Last Line: Falling, 'dream!'? Subject(s): Voices VOICES (2) First Line: Rapture and sorrow Last Line: If a pining heart could but listen aright! WAIF First Line: There lived a small hermaphrodite beside the silver brent Last Line: And silent slides the silver brent, and mute is middlesex.' WAITING First Line: Waiting to...' Last Line: Waiting what for?' %'to die.' WALL First Line: No more than house-wall without hole or glass Last Line: Unless by love we have been taught to see WANDERERS Poem Text First Line: Wide are the meadows of night Last Line: Through which we stray. WARBLER First Line: In the sedge a tiny song Last Line: Mine will still be echoing WARMINT First Line: Oh, she was just a little thing Last Line: This wicked little warmint WE WHO HAVE WATCHED First Line: We who have watched the world go by Last Line: What mercy dream we of? WEA First Line: If I were the beadle of weston weaton Last Line: If I were the beadle of wea WELL, HERE'S First Line: Well, here's to a tinker Last Line: Where old clootie will find him some jobs to be done WENT THE MIND CLOCKTIME-WISE First Line: Went the mind clocktine-wise, then genius c ould Last Line: Only at hazard commensurate with the pains WHAT? First Line: What dost thou surely know? Last Line: Have turned from the world away WHEN A GREAT WATER SINKS TO PEACE Last Line: Like spindrift faintly falling, %in a sigh? WHEN LOVE FLIES IN WHEN LOVE FLIES IN Last Line: And live without! Subject(s): England; Love WHEN ONE IS A GIRL First Line: When I was a girl, in a pretty green hat Last Line: When I think of my strapping young man! Subject(s): Girls WHEN SAFE INTO THE FIELDS ANN GOT WHEN SHE WAS IN HER GARDEN WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED WHEN YOU ARE GONE, AND I'M ALONE First Line: When you are gone, and I'm alone Last Line: And yours the rusting key Subject(s): Solitude WHERE (1) First Line: Houses! House! - oh, I know Last Line: Listen, far one, here is home.' WHERE (2) First Line: Monkeys in a forest Last Line: And babs in bed WHERE IS THY VICTORY?' First Line: None, none can tell where I shall be WHERE? (1) Poem Text First Line: Where is my love Last Line: Love lies here. WHERE? (2) First Line: Where, oh, where is alice bates? Last Line: Rings sweet of earth aned heaven.' WHICH WAY? First Line: Wander, spirit? - I! Last Line: What do you lack?' %to groan WHICH? First Line: What did you say?' Last Line: Phantom or fantasy, it's all one to me.' WHITE First Line: Once was a miller, and he would say Last Line: He grins and grins and grins WHITENESS First Line: I stay to linger, though the night Last Line: Ask of those solemn cedars there! WHO REALLY? First Line: When winter's o'er, the bear once more Last Line: Who really would suppose!' WHO'S THAT? Poem Text First Line: Who's that? Who's that? Last Line: And choke, 'lead on!' WHO? Poem Text First Line: Who walks with us on the hills? Last Line: Wild bird: ay!. . . Aye!. . . Ay! . . . WHY First Line: Why do you weep, mother? Wy do you weep? Last Line: Why do you sigh, mother: why do you sigh?' WHY! First Line: Dear father, tell me, why are worms?' Last Line: Mine was the emptier stare WHY, THEN COMES IN...' First Line: Long-idling spring may come Last Line: And peace and love! WIDEN YOUR CALLS First Line: Widen your calls, let tim decant her spells Last Line: Discern the haven of life's whole enterprise WIDOW (2) First Line: Grief now hath pacified her face Last Line: Through what dark half-closed gates her smile may go Subject(s): Widows And Widowers WILD ARE THE WAVES First Line: Wild are the waves when the wind blows Last Line: Then sweet birds sing WILL EVER? Poem Text First Line: Will he ever be weary of wandering Last Line: The islands are? WILL-O'-THE -WISP Last Line: With the baleful eyes WILLIAM HACKLE Poem Text First Line: Here's an old taylour, rest his eye Last Line: Needle and thredde put by. Subject(s): Epitaphs WILLIAM PARR Poem Text First Line: He that lies here was mortal olde Last Line: In seventeen hundred sixty three. Subject(s): Epitaphs WILLIE!' First Line: Willie, willie! %I call and cry Last Line: Comes but my own voice %back again WIND First Line: The wind - yes, I hear it - goes wandering by Last Line: When the wind calls to him, he just whimpers, poor soul! WINDOW (2) First Line: Sunlit, the lashes fringe the half-closed eyes Last Line: Contracts to such strait entry as mere sight! WINGED CHARIOT First Line: ...Why this absurd concern with clocks, my friend? Last Line: As (countless cantos) this old fable tells WINGED CHARIOT: ONCE First Line: Once', runs the tale, 'in the lost isle of lyncke Last Line: However small the commons we ourselves may share WINGED CHARIOT: THE PALACE OF TIME First Line: A self-sick wanderer, in the leprous light Last Line: Which from the heavens seems scarcely even to creep WINNOWING DREAM First Line: I saw a seraph, brighter than the east Last Line: Nought valued even by me! WINTER Poem Text First Line: Clouded with snow Last Line: Floats the white moon. WINTER First Line: Mute now the music that made me Last Line: On empty fields forlorn with night WINTER (1) Poem Text First Line: Green mistletoe! Last Line: Snow, snow, more snow!' Subject(s): Winter WINTER (2) First Line: Cold and raw the north wind doth blow Last Line: And winter's now come fairly Subject(s): Winter WINTER COMING Poem Text First Line: O, thou art like an autumn to my days Last Line: Youth vanished, winter coming -- I and thou! Subject(s): Winter WINTER COMPANY First Line: Blackbird silent in the snow Last Line: Lay open in what they seem WINTER DUSK Poem Text First Line: Dark frost was in the air without Last Line: Leaned close and drew them near. WINTER EVENING First Line: Over the wintry fields the snow drifts; falling, falling; Last Line: On the starless verge of the dark! WIRELESS First Line: When other lips...' - that old outmoded ballad! Last Line: My eyes were stung by tears WITCH Poem Text First Line: Weary went the old witch Last Line: Where she slept, poor soul. WITCHCRAFT First Line: A parson I knew in the village of eard Last Line: The nightingale's voice, it is said WON'T First Line: See, master proud-face! Last Line: To make hay of her must! WOOL First Line: There was an old lady of poole Last Line: When watching their capers in school WORDS First Line: How I love the rhymes that I can dance to, sing to Last Line: The twice-sweet pleasure if that voice is one's own! Subject(s): Language WORK First Line: Work! Work apace! But only a heart at rest Last Line: Can rock the visiting halcyon on its breast YE SAY: WE SLEEP YOU SAY YOU LOVE First Line: You say you love, but will you ever know Last Line: No haven, alas, for me Subject(s): Love - Nature Of YOU TAKE MY HEART WITH TEARS YOUNG GIRL First Line: I search in vain your childlike face to see Last Line: Must burn the inward innocence of your eyes YOUR HATE I SEE, AND CAN ENDURE, NAY, MUST Last Line: Spit on the empty purse: 'tis naught to you YOUR MADDENING FACE BEFOOLS MY EYES Last Line: And dawn completes the tale YOUTH Poem Text First Line: With splendour shod sweeps sirius through the night Last Line: To buy unchallenged honour for his bones? |
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