A Rhyme Of Friends (Robert Graves Poems)
(In a Style Skeltonical)Listen now this timeShortly to my rhymeThat herewith startsAbout certain kind heartsIn those stricken partsThat lie behind ...
(In a Style Skeltonical)Listen now this timeShortly to my rhymeThat herewith startsAbout certain kind heartsIn those stricken partsThat lie behind ...
When I was not quite five years old I first saw the blue picture book,And Fraulein Spitzenburger toldStories that sent me ...
Now I begin to know at last,These nights when I sit down to rhyme,The form and measure of that vastGod ...
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,The track aches only when the rain reminds.The one-legged man forgets his leg of ...
Love, do not count your labour lost Though I turn sullen, grim, retired Even at your side; my thought is crossed With fancies ...
'Cry from the thicket my heart's bird!'The other birds woke all around;Rising with toot and howl they stirredTheir plumage, broke ...
He fell in victory's fierce pursuit, Holed through and through with shot, A sabre sweep had hacked him deep Twixt neck and shoulderknot.... The ...
(The Little Saucepan)Four collier lads from Ebbw ValeTook shelter from a shower of hail,And there beneath a spreading treeAttuned their ...
MotherOh, what a heavy sigh! Dicky, are you ailing? DickyEven by this fireside, mother, My heart is failing.To-night across the down, Whistling and jolly,I ...
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
One moonlit night a ship drove in, A ghost ship from the west,Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller, Like a mermaid ...
Owls: they whinney down the night, Bats go zigzag by.Ambushed in shadow out of sight The outlaws lie.Old gods, shrunk to shadows, ...
On pay-day nights, neck-full with beer,Old soldiers stumbling homeward here,Homeward (still dazzled by the sparkLove kindled in some alley dark)Young ...
Where is the landlord of old Hawk and Buckle,And what of Master Straddler this hot summer weather?He's along in the ...
Mary: Johnny, sweetheart, can you be trueTo all those famous vows you've made?Will you love me as I love youUntil ...
Take now a country mood, Resolve, distil it: - Nine Acre swaying alive, June flowers that fill it, Spicy sweet-briar bush, The uneasy wren Fluttering from ...
(The manticors of the montainesMighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.)Thick and scented daisies spreadWhere with surface dull like leadArabian pools ...
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,The King of Persia walked: ...
Allie, call the birds in, The birds from the sky.Allie calls, Allie sings, Down they all fly.First there cameTwo white doves Then a ...
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out ...
Nancy"Edward back from the Indian Sea,What have you brought for Nancy?" Edward"A rope of pearls and a gold earring,And a bird ...
Here's flowery taffeta for Mary's new gown: Here's black velvet, all the rage, for Dick's birthday coat.Pearly buttons for you, Mary, ...
Dust in a cloud, blinding weather, Drums that rattle and roar!A mother and daughter stood together Beside their cottage door."Mother, the heavens ...
Restless and hot two children lay Plagued with uneasy dreams,Each wandered lonely through false day A twilight torn with screams.True to the ...
So far from praising he blasphemesWho says that God has been or is,Who swears he met with God in dreamsOr ...
Can I find True-Love a gift In this dark hour to restore her,When body's vessel breaks adrift, When hope and beauty fade ...
Lady, lovely lady, Careless and gay!Once when a beggar called She gave her child away.The beggar took the baby, Wrapped it in a ...
"Come, surly fellow, come! A song!" What, madmen? Sing to you?Choose from the clouded tales of wrong And terror I bring to ...
As Jesus and his followers Upon a Sabbath mornWere walking by a wheat field They plucked the ears of corn.They plucked it, ...
Tangled in thought am I,Stumble in speech do I?Do I blunder and blush for the reason why?Wander aloof do I,Lean ...
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