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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: gibson, wilfrid Matches Found: 236 Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson Poet's Biography 236 poems available by this author A CATCH FOR SINGING Poem Text First Line: Said the old young man to the young old man Last Line: "but the cherry-tree's in flourish!" A VISION IN A TEA-SHOP Poem Text First Line: His hair lit up the tea-shop like a fire Last Line: The sons of morning singing together for joy. AGATHA STEEL Poem Text First Line: You, agatha Last Line: That I may bear a living child. AIR-RAID First Line: Night shatters in mid-heaven:the bark of guns AKRA THE SLAVE Poem Text First Line: He thought to see me tremble Last Line: Lo! ... In the east, the dawn. AKRA THE SLAVE: INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: So long had I travelled the lonely road Last Line: And crossed the threshold, and kindled the fire. ALL BEING WELL First Line: All being well, I'll come to you Last Line: When I at last may come to you, %all being well? ANGUS ARMSTRONG First Line: Ghostly through the drifting mist the lingering snowwreaths ANNIVERSARY First Line: The clicking of the latch AS A GLEAMING MALLARD ALIGHTING IN A POOL, FR. WINGS Subject(s): Birds BACCHANAL First Line: Into the twilight of trafalgar square BACK Poem Text First Line: They ask me where I've been Last Line: Because he bore my name. Variant Title(s): Black Subject(s): Religion; War; World War I; Theology; First World War BARBARA FELL First Line: Stephen, wake up! There's some one at the gate BATTLE (COMPLETE) BATTLE: 1. THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: He went, and he was gay to go Last Line: What stranger would come back to me. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BATTLE: 2. THE DANCERS Poem Text First Line: All day beneath the hurtling shells Last Line: Above the dreamless dead. BATTLE: 3. HIT Poem Text First Line: Out of the sparkling sea Last Line: Among the dead men in the trench. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BEFORE ACTION Poem Text First Line: I sit beside the brazier's glow Last Line: Nor any cold or heat. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BETWEEN THE LINES Poem Text First Line: When consciousness came back, he found he lay Last Line: He rose, and crawled away into the night. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties BLIND STRANGER First Line: She switched her torch on in that ... Place BLOODYBUSH EDGE Poem Text First Line: A track, at last, thank god Last Line: And such a clatter-jaw! BORDERLANDS (COMPLETE) BOY First Line: Taking his trick, the crew being at their meal Last Line: Sank in mid-ocean's all-devouring death Subject(s): World War Ii BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: We ate our breakfast lying on our backs Last Line: Because the shells were screeching overhead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War BY CARMARTHEN BAY First Line: Behold the happy three BY THE WEIR Poem Text First Line: Ascent of esparto grass - and again I recall Last Line: You should stand at my shoulder an outcast from eden too. CAKEWALK First Line: In smoky lamplight of a smyrna cafe Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers CHERRIES Poem Text First Line: A handful of cherries Last Line: Of cherries to pluck. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit COAST-WATCH First Line: With tingling eyes he stares into the dense Last Line: And once again he finds himself alone %staring across an empty moon-glazed sea Subject(s): World War Ii COLOR Poem Text First Line: A blue-black nubian plucking oranges Last Line: In that old heaven where things are what they seem. Subject(s): Beauty; Blacks COMRADES Poem Text First Line: As I was marching in flanders Last Line: "I'll bear you company." Subject(s): World War I; First World War CONSCRIPT First Line: Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored Last Line: The nail-marks glowing in his feet and hands Subject(s): Religion; World War I DAFFODILS Poem Text First Line: He liked the daffodils. He liked to see Last Line: And he would give them all to have him back. DAILY BREAD (COMPLETE) DAILY BREAD: PREFACE Poem Text First Line: All life moving to one measure Last Line: "love, are there not crumbs to treasure?" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DAILY BREAD: PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: As one, at midnight, wakened by the call Last Line: Surge with the life-song of humanity. Variant Title(s): Proem DEAF Poem Text First Line: This day last year I heard the curlew calling Last Line: Down slack and syke. DECEMBER DAYBREAK First Line: Shrill, a joyous scream Last Line: Men soared on heaven-ascending wings to fight Subject(s): World War Ii DEVIL'S EDGE Poem Text First Line: All night I lay on devil's edge Last Line: The baby snuggling to her breast. DISASTER First Line: Against the sunset's rose Subject(s): Labor And Laborers DOWN THE ROAD First Line: O dear! O dear! She said ENTERPRISE First Line: Down the long street he limps ... Anxious eye EPILOGUE First Line: Ghosts of my fathers, while you keep FIRE First Line: In each black tile a mimic fire's aglow FIRES (COMPLETE) FIRES: PROEM Poem Text First Line: Snug in my easy chair Last Line: The man who hews the coal to feed my fire. FISHERMAN'S LUCK First Line: As I sunk the lobster-pots Subject(s): Sea FLANNAN ISLE Poem Text First Line: Though three men dwell on flannan isle Last Line: Who thought on three men dead. Subject(s): Lighthouses FOR G. Poem Text First Line: All night under the moon Last Line: Rapturous voices of love in the hush of the night. Subject(s): Desire; Love FOWLER First Line: A wild bird filled the morning air FRIENDS (COMPLETE) FRIENDS: PROEM Poem Text First Line: He's gone / I do not understand Last Line: And he was gone. Variant Title(s): Battle: The Going;the Going Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Death; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The GERANIUMS Poem Text First Line: Stuck in a bottle on the window-sill Last Line: Nor need to barter blossoms for a bed. Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums GIRL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I saw three black pigs riding Last Line: And throbbing through my heart. GOLD Poem Text First Line: All day the mallet thudded far below Last Line: With aching arms I beat fine gold for bread GOLDEN ROOM First Line: Do you remember the still summer evening Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GRAY'S INN First Line: Bell rings, the key clicks, the door swings HANDS First Line: Tempest without: within the mellow glow HAUL First Line: The shivering silent torrent of live fish Last Line: By peril in the instant urgent strife %of eager death-eluding, which is life! HENRY TRUMBULL First Line: He planked down sixpence and he took his drink HILL-BORN Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder if it's really true Last Line: On the green ridges of the windy gile. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HIS FATHER Poem Text First Line: I quite forgot to put the spigot in Last Line: Before he gets me told about that beer! HIS MATE Poem Text First Line: Hi-diddle-diddle Last Line: I struggled to my knees and pulled the trigger. HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: Her hands are never quiet Last Line: Polly. She's had her wish. HOME: 1. RETURN Poem Text First Line: Under the brown bird-haunted eaves of thatch Last Line: We two, o love, had won to home ere night. Subject(s): Homecoming HOME: 2. CANDLELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Where through the open window I could see Last Line: Into the starry night you breathed my name. Subject(s): Home HOME: 3. FIRELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Against the curtained casement wind and sleet Last Line: Diviner dreams the years shall yet fulfil. Subject(s): Home HOME: 4. MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Between the midnight pillars of black elms Last Line: Till I, too, sink in slumber sound and deep. Subject(s): Home HOOPS Poem Text First Line: And then consider camels: only think Last Line: The purple pussies all caterwaul at once. I HEARD A SAILOR First Line: Why does she shake her head at me IN A RESTAURANT Poem Text First Line: He wears a red rose in his buttonhole Last Line: On rose-red seas of melody aswim. Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners IN COURSE OF TIME First Line: The sarsen-stone %door-post of temple, altar-throne IN THE AMBULANCE Poem Text First Line: Two rows of cabbages Last Line: "two of kidney-beans." Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE MEADOW Poem Text First Line: The smell of wet hay in the heat Last Line: He'd look into a woman's eyes. IN THE ORCHESTRA Poem Text First Line: He'd played each night for months; and never heard Last Line: Fiddled on, dreaming of her quietly. IN WAR-TIME First Line: As gaudy flies across a pewter plate INSPIRATION First Line: On the outermost far-flung ridge of ice and snow Subject(s): Religion JOHN PATTISON GIBSON First Line: Dead as the romans he adored JOHN'S WIFE First Line: No, no, I shouldn't call old esther mad KATHERINE VEITCH First Line: He fell at loos: and when she heard LAMENT Poem Text First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War LEAVE First Line: Crouched on the crowded deck,we watch the sun LINES Poem Text First Line: I saw you, seated on a horse's head Last Line: The unseeing circle of funereal faces. LIVELIHOOD (COMPLETE) LIVELIHOOD: PROEM Poem Text First Line: Audrey, these men and women I have known Last Line: In old incredible days before your birth. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LONELY TREE First Line: A twisted ash, a ragged fir LUCK First Line: What bring you, sailor, home from the sea Subject(s): Luck; Sailors And Sailing MABEL Poem Text First Line: When nigger dick and hell-for-women slouched Last Line: Shaking the darkness from his shaggy coat. MAD Poem Text First Line: Neck-deep in mud Last Line: And laughed like mad. MAKESHIFTS Poem Text First Line: And after all, 'twas snug and weather-tight Last Line: In the first glory of the morning light. MANGEL-WURZELS Poem Text First Line: Last year I was hoeing Last Line: For you don't hoe mangel-wurzels with a gun. MARK ANDERSON First Line: On the low table by the bed Last Line: But only gaze upon the glass %of water that he could not drink Subject(s): World War I MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Going my way of old Last Line: Night after night. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MATES Poem Text First Line: Nay, lass! I cannot turn him Last Line: [she picks up the basket and can, and runs out after him.] MICHAEL'S SONG First Line: Because I set no snare MOONING IN THE MOONLIGHT NIGHT (1) Poem Text First Line: Suddenly kindling the skylight's pitchy square Last Line: And I breathe again. NIGHT (2) Poem Text First Line: Vesuvius, purple under purple skies Last Line: Show thee again, re-orient, crowned with light! NIGHTMARE Poem Text First Line: They gave him a shilling Last Line: The boy who's my son. NOEL DARK First Line: She sleeps in bronze, the helen of his dream NORTHUMBERLAND First Line: Heatherland and bent-land NORTHUMBRIAN DUET: NED NIXON AND HIS MAGGIE First Line: Will you come with me, maggie, to stagshawbank fair?' OBLIVION Poem Text First Line: Near the great pyramid, unshadowed, white Last Line: Than that blind white oblivion of noon skies. OLD MAN JOBLING OLD SKINFLINT First Line: Twixt carrowbrough edge and settlingstones ON BROADWAY First Line: Daffodils dancing by moonlight in english meadows ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH Poem Text First Line: Against the green flame of the hawthorn-tree Last Line: Beneath her purple feather. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London ON THE EMBANKMENT Poem Text First Line: Down on the sunlit ebb, with the wind in her sails, and free Last Line: My heart is a hopeless lad in gaol. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ON THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Marrried!' he says Last Line: [he leads them to the turning of the road.] ON THE THRESHOLD Poem Text First Line: No more of love, lad! We are wedded folk Last Line: That you and I must travel, side by side. OTTERBURN Poem Text First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The PAISLEY SHAWL First Line: What were his dreams who wove tis coloured shawl PARROT First Line: Long since I'd ceased to care PARROTS First Line: Somewhere, somewhere I've seen Last Line: And jangling like a bell PARTNERS Poem Text First Line: He'd got to see it through. Ay, that was plain Last Line: For there was some one tapping at the door. PHILIP AND PHOEBE WARE First Line: Who is that woman, philip, standing there PHILIP DAGG First Line: It pricked like needles slashed into his face PROMETHEUS Poem Text First Line: All day beneath the bleak indifferent skies Last Line: Quick fire enough to set his world alight. Subject(s): Fire RAGAMUFFINS Poem Text First Line: Few folk like the wind's way Last Line: Singing, storm or shine. RAGTIME First Line: A minx in khaki struts the limelit boards RAINING Poem Text First Line: The night I left my father said Last Line: I'm thinking the old man was right. RALPH STRAKER First Line: Softly out of the dove-grey sky RED FOX Poem Text First Line: I hated him ... His beard was red Last Line: Good watch, the night her son was born. RETREAT Poem Text First Line: Broken, bewildered by the long retreat Last Line: "all-heal and willowherb and meadowsweet." Subject(s): World War I; First World War RIDGE: 1919 First Line: Here on the ridge where the shrill north-easter trails Last Line: Till scourged and shriven I again may go %to dwell among my kind Subject(s): War ROSES Poem Text First Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl Last Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text First Line: Your face was lifted to the golden sky Last Line: Tarry by that old garden of your delight. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties SACRIFICE First Line: He slipped aside Subject(s): Labor And Laborers SALLY BLACK AND GEORDIE GREEN First Line: Oh where may you be going with your ... Mare SALVAGE Poem Text First Line: So suddenly her life Last Line: A toy gun and a copper coffee-pot. SEA CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Wind-flicked and ruddy her young body glowed Last Line: In cold moon-coloured immortality. SENTRY First Line: As the dawn flushes the vast desert-sands Last Line: And what they would be thinking well he knew Subject(s): World War Ii SIGHT Poem Text First Line: By the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes Last Line: I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick. Subject(s): Sight SKYROS First Line: Skyros - the spoke the name SONG First Line: If once I could gather in song SPORT Poem Text First Line: And such a morning for cubbing Last Line: We're out for and after to-day! STONEFOLDS Poem Text First Line: Is ralph there? Last Line: Nicholas. Yet another day! STONEFOLDS (COMPLETE) STONEFOLDS: INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: The ragged heather-ridge is black Last Line: I lose myself in starry space. STOW-ON-THE-WOLD Poem Text First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STRAWBERRIES Poem Text First Line: Since four she had been plucking strawberries Last Line: And pluck to go on gathering strawberries. SUMMER-DAWN Poem Text First Line: Come, lad, get up, or we'll be late Last Line: Together into the dawn.] SWEET AS THE BREATH OF THE WHIN TENANTS Poem Text First Line: Suddenly, out of the dark and leafy ways Last Line: Within its walls, were sleeping in our bed. THE ALARUM Poem Text First Line: Stark to the skin, I crawled a knife-edged blade Last Line: And heard the crazy clanging of a bell. THE BAYONET Poem Text First Line: This bloody steel Last Line: That dying squeal. THE BETROTHED Poem Text First Line: Why, frances, you're not gone Last Line: Frances. I will not leave you. THE BLAST-FURNACE Poem Text First Line: And such a night! But maybe in that mood Last Line: And men had got to take things as they came. THE BLIND ROWER Poem Text First Line: And since he rowed his father home Last Line: The dead, who steered his blind son home. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BRIDAL Poem Text First Line: Wife, welcome home! Last Line: Come, take your seat. THE BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: All morning they had quarrelled, as they worked Last Line: "come, robert, cuddle closer, lad, it's cold." THE CALL Poem Text First Line: The best of luck Last Line: Come, lads. THE CHILD Poem Text First Line: He's gone Last Line: Gazing at the sky beyond the chimney-stacks.] THE CRANE Poem Text First Line: The biggest crane on earth, it lifts Last Line: Went whirling through the starry sky. Subject(s): Cranes (machines) THE DANCERS Poem Text First Line: Neath a thorn as white as snow Last Line: Dance, above the dancing sea. THE DANCING SEAL Poem Text First Line: When we were building skua light Last Line: For ever and for evermore. Subject(s): Seals (animals) THE DOCTOR Poem Text First Line: He'd soon be home. The car was running well Last Line: Alone, and hungry newborn babies crying. THE DREADNOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Breasting the tide of the traffic, the 'dreadnought' comes Last Line: Sits kissing her hand to the drivers who follow behind. THE DROVE-ROAD Poem Text First Line: Twas going to snow - 'twas snowing! Curse his luck Last Line: Even the best rum tasted better, shared. Subject(s): Cattle THE ELM Poem Text First Line: The wind had caught the elm at last Last Line: Behind him with a stick, the limb! THE FAMILY'S PRIDE Poem Text First Line: She has not stirred Last Line: Katherine. Death has pitied her. THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: That was his sort Last Line: And cut him short. Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War THE FEAR Poem Text First Line: I do not fear to die Last Line: Lest I wake up dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FERRY Poem Text First Line: The river's in full-spate Last Line: Door, and nothing is heard but the noise of the waters.] THE FIRSTBORN Poem Text First Line: The boats are in Last Line: Miriam. And our son. THE FLUTE Poem Text First Line: Good night!' he sang out cheerily Last Line: "good-night!"" and yet again, ""good-night!" Subject(s): Flutes THE FURNACE Poem Text First Line: I heard the doctor go Last Line: Child. He is not frightened now. THE GARRET Poem Text First Line: You ... Adah ... Here! Last Line: Will all be stretching their long necks, and crowing. THE GORSE Poem Text First Line: In dream, again within the clean, cold hell Last Line: Beneath a blinding sky, one blaze of sun. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE GREETING Poem Text First Line: What fettle, mate?' to me he said Last Line: "what fettle, mate?" THE HARE Poem Text First Line: My hands were hot upon a hare Last Line: Or need to dread the dreams of night. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE HOUSE OF CANDLES Poem Text First Line: The house was dark Last Line: And the breath of morning sweeps through the room.] THE HOUSEWIFE Poem Text First Line: She must go back, she said Last Line: Into the night, shells falling thick and fast. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE ICE Poem Text First Line: Her day out from the workhouse-ward, she stands Last Line: She, who's been old, is now a child again. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE ICE CART Poem Text First Line: Perched on my city office-stool Last Line: Of that intolerable street. THE JOKE Poem Text First Line: He'd even have his joke Last Line: And now god knows when I shall hear the rest! Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LAMP Poem Text First Line: She couldn't bring herself to bar the door Last Line: Smiling, she fell asleep. THE LARK Poem Text First Line: A lull in the racket and brattle Last Line: Is drowned in the shattering brattle. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE LIGHTHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Just as my watch was done, the fog had lifted Last Line: While through the window stole the strange, clear light of day. THE LILAC TREE Poem Text First Line: I planted her the lilac tree Last Line: They thought upon the dead. THE LODESTAR Poem Text First Line: From hag to hag, o'er miles of quaking moss Last Line: Of that old man, forlorn beside the bed. THE LODGING HOUSE Poem Text First Line: When up the fretful, creaking stair Last Line: To seek a home I know not where. THE MACHINE Poem Text First Line: Since thursday he'd been working overtime Last Line: As, hand in hand, they wandered through the night. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Machinery & Machinists; Work; Workers THE MESSAGES Poem Text First Line: I cannot quite remember - there were five Last Line: "whispered their dying messages to me...." Subject(s): World War I - Casualties THE MONEY Poem Text First Line: They found her cold upon the bed Last Line: Would buy her houseroom in the end. THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: You are not going, surely Last Line: Annie. Yes, he sleeps sound. THE NEWS Poem Text First Line: The buzzer boomed, and instantly the clang Last Line: They parted, with their news as yet untold. THE NIGHT-SHIFT Poem Text First Line: My son Last Line: A fine big boy he is. THE OLD BED Poem Text First Line: Streaming beneath the eaves, the sunset light Last Line: Upon the bed of bridal, birth and death. Subject(s): Beds THE OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: The boat put in at dead of night Last Line: Upon my father's empty chair. THE OLD NAIL SHOP Poem Text First Line: I dreamt of wings, - and waked to hear Last Line: "I'll wear the yellow beads to-night." THE OLD PIPER Poem Text First Line: With ears undulled of age, all night he heard Last Line: As though still listening to the otterburn. THE OPERATION Poem Text First Line: You're late tonight Last Line: Back to the bedroom.] THE ORPHANS Poem Text First Line: At five o'clock one april morn Last Line: "and broken up the home." Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings THE OVENS Poem Text First Line: He trailed along the cinder-track Last Line: "god knows whom I may wake to-night." THE PESSIMIST Poem Text First Line: His body bulged with puppies - little eyes Last Line: "when no one wants these little dogs of mine." Subject(s): Pessimism THE PLATELAYER Poem Text First Line: Tapping the rails as he went by Last Line: But he was tired, and it must wait. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE PLOUGH Poem Text First Line: He sniffed the clean and eager smell Last Line: His young hand to the ploughshare too. THE QUEEN'S CRAGS Poem Text First Line: Of all the lazy louts Last Line: She doesn't hold with owls, and such like. THE QUESTION Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the old cow died or not Last Line: Till doomsday if the old cow died or not. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE QUIET Poem Text First Line: I could not understand the sudden quiet Last Line: Among the other dead. THE RAGGED STONE Poem Text First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE REEK Poem Text First Line: Tonight they're sitting by the peat Last Line: Across the belgian snow. THE ROCKLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Ay, he must keep his mind clear - must not think Last Line: And her grave eyes kindling with kindly light. THE SCAR Poem Text First Line: So, you are back Last Line: Margaret. Only time will tell. THE SHAFT Poem Text First Line: He must have lost his way, somehow. 'twould seem Last Line: As, close at hand, there came an answering shout. THE SHIRT Poem Text First Line: Ay, lass, the shirt's for will Last Line: I'll always hear... THE SHOP Poem Text First Line: Tin-tinkle-tinkle-tinkle, went the bell Last Line: "and, father, all the little pigs were black!" THE SLAG Poem Text First Line: Among bleak hills of mounded slag they walked Last Line: In one fierce, fiery flood of joy. THE SNOW Poem Text First Line: Just as the school came out Last Line: "and hear him say: ""the lad's no fool." THE STONE Poem Text First Line: And will you cut a stone for him Last Line: To cut her name upon the stone. Subject(s): Graves; Stone-cutting; Tombs; Tombstones THE SWEET-TOOTH Poem Text First Line: Taking a turn after tea Last Line: Timothy under the crab-apple tree. THE SWING Poem Text First Line: Twas jolly, swinging through the air Last Line: For ever through that shining weather! THE TRAM Poem Text First Line: Humming and creaking, the car down the street Last Line: Made one by the awe that had come to pass. THE VINDICTIVE STAIRCASE, OR THE REWARD OF INDUSTRY Poem Text First Line: In a doomed and empty house in houndsditch Last Line: In a damned and ghostly house in houndsditch! THE VIXEN MADE FOR DEADMAN'S FLOW THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: At sunrise, swimming out to sea Last Line: And answer that sweet calling. Subject(s): Parents; Sea; Parenthood; Ocean THE VOW Poem Text First Line: Does he ever remember Last Line: As quiet as death? THE WHISPERERS Poem Text First Line: As beneath the moon I walked Last Line: "and his shadow walks alone." THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: That night she dreamt that he had died Last Line: And they were sleeping, side by side. THE WIND Poem Text First Line: To the lean, clean land, to the last cold height Last Line: Will slit your weasand, and mine. THE WOUND Poem Text First Line: You, mother Last Line: Hetty. He's coming back. THOROUGHFARES (COMPLETE) THOROUGHFARES. SOLWAY FORD Poem Text First Line: He greets you with a smile from friendly eyes Last Line: While gold and sapphire fish swim overhead. TO E.M. Poem Text First Line: The night we saw the stacks of timber blaze Last Line: Drawn from the bottomless midnight of hell's ways. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TREES (TO LASCELLES ABECROMBIE) Poem Text First Line: The flames half lit the cavernous mystery Last Line: Soaring immortal to eternal skies. TROOPSHIP First Line: Dark waters into crystalline brilliance UNITY First Line: When the cooling tyre contracts Subject(s): Labor And Laborers VICTORY Poem Text First Line: I watched it oozing quietly Last Line: His life was running out. WHEELS Poem Text First Line: To safety of the curb he thrust the crone Last Line: His young wife gravely knitting by his side. WHITE WHIPPET First Line: Squatted on their hunkers at the corner of the street WILLIAM DENIS BROWNE Poem Text First Line: Night after night we two together heard Last Line: The severing deep. WINTER DAWN Poem Text First Line: The men are long away Last Line: And I must tell him that his son is home. WOMENKIND Poem Text First Line: It's nearly three Last Line: Ay: we're a faithless lot. WOOLGATHERING Poem Text First Line: Youth that goes woolgathering Last Line: Comes of youth's woolgathering. WORLDS First Line: Through the pale green forest of tall bracken-stalks |
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