My Dull Brother (Patience Worth Poems)
You, my brother, you, whose dull eyesLook forth unto dull days, whose hours make progressLike unto a procession of cowled ...
You, my brother, you, whose dull eyesLook forth unto dull days, whose hours make progressLike unto a procession of cowled ...
We marched, and saw a company of CanadiansTheir coats weighed eighty pounds at least, we saw themFaces infinitely grimed in, ...
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
Just look at him! there he stands,With his nasty hair and hands.See! his nails are never cut;They are grimed as ...
Warped. gland-dry.With spine askewAnd body shrunken into half its space.Well-used as some cracked paving-stone.Bearing on his grimed and pitted frontA ...
I. UNDER THE TREES.There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapesOf this and this occasion, sisterlyIn their resemblances, each effigyCrowned with the ...
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
On that dear Frame the Years had worn Yet precious as the House In which We first experienced Light The ...
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours ...
There is a shattered palm on this fierce shore, its plumes the rusting helm- et of a dead warrior. Numb ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
THE LANDS OF MY CHILDHOOD 1 I am leaving the holy city of Leeds For the last time for the ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't ...
A barefoot boy I went to school To save a cobbler's fee, For though the porridge pot was full A ...
A hundred years is a lot of living I've often thought. and I'll know, maybe, Some day if the gods ...
(Another version of "A Terre".) To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes! My fingers fidget like ...
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan's men Here stood ...
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