Girl To A Soldier On leave (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Girl To A Soldier On LeaveLove! You love me - your eyesHave looked through death at mine.You have tempted a ...
Isaac Rosenberg Poems (20 Poems)
Ah, Koelue (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Ah, Koelue!Had you embalmed your beauty, soIt could not backward go,Or change in any way,What were the use, if on ...
‘Ah, Koelue . . .’ (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Ah, Koelue!Had you embalmed your beauty, soIt could not backward go,Or change in any way,What were the use, if on ...
Of Any Old Man (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Wreck not the ageing heart of quietness,With alien uproar and rude jolly cries,Which satyr like to a mild maidens pride,Ripens ...
Soldier: Twentieth Century (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
I love you, great new Titan!Am I not you?Napoleon or CaesarOut of you grew.Out of the unthinkable torture,Eyes kissed by ...
Marching (As Seen From the Left File) (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
My eyes catch ruddy necksSturdily pressed back -All a red brick moving glint.Like flaming pendulums, handsSwing across the khaki -Mustard-coloured ...
Spring (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
I walk and wonderTo hear the birds sing,Without you my ladyHow can there be Spring?I see the pink blossomsThat slept ...
August 1914 (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
What in our lives is burntIn the fire of this?The heart's dear granary?The much we shall miss?Three lives hath one ...
The Troop Ship (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Grotesque and queerly huddledContortionists to twistThe sleepy soul to a sleep,We lie all sorts of waysAnd cannot sleep.The wet wind ...
‘A worm fed on the heart of Corinth’ (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
A worm fed on the heart of Corinth,Babylon and Rome:Not Paris raped tall Helen,But this incestuous worm,Who lured her vivid ...
The Jew (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Moses, from whose loins I sprung, Lit by a lamp in his blood Ten immutable rules, a moon For mutable ...
In the Trenches (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
I snatched two poppies From the parapet's ledge, Two bright red poppies That winked on the ledge. Behind my ear ...
Louse Hunting (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Nudes -- stark and glistening, Yelling in lurid glee. Grinning faces And raging limbs Whirl over the floor one fire. ...
On Receiving News of the War (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Snow is a strange white word. No ice or frost Has asked of bud or bird For Winter's cost. Yet ...
The Immortals (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
I killed them, but they would not die. Yea! all the day and all the night For them I could ...
God (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat ...
Through These Pale Cold Days (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn, While ...
Break of Day in the Trenches (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, ...
Dead Man’s Dump (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And ...
Returning, We Hear the Larks (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
Sombre the night is. And though we have our lives, we know What sinister threat lies there. Dragging these anguished ...