Ares, God of War (Herbert Ashley Asquith Poems)
UNDER the stars the armies lie asleep:Between the lines a quiet river flowsThrough brakes of honeysuckle, and of rose,And fields ...
UNDER the stars the armies lie asleep:Between the lines a quiet river flowsThrough brakes of honeysuckle, and of rose,And fields ...
THOR draws a chord invisible Across the shaking sky:I hear the tearing of the shell, The bullets sing and cry,As, charging through ...
IN domes of dim and ancient gold, In cloisters, where the lightning plays,Where gleam the gorgeous saints of old In aisles of ...
Hail! O Baby of the MayIn the bubbling river-bed,Playing where the cannon play,With the shrapnel overhead!Sparkling in and flashing outThrough ...
The starshells float above, the bayonets glisten; We bear our fallen friend without a sound; Below the waiting legions lie ...
UP and down, up and downThey go, the gray rat, and the brown.The telegraph lines are tangled hair,Motionless on the ...
OLD Man, your pearls are not for us, Your rubies die too soon:Have you the pearls of Sirius, Or opals of the ...
(TO A CHILD)LOVE be thy charioteer:In all thy brightening and thy darkening hoursMay he be at thine ear;So shalt thou ...
Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Toiling at ledgers in a city grey, Thinking that so ...
FAREWELL, the village leaning to the hill,And all the cawing rooks that homeward fly ;The bees; the drowsy anthem of ...
THE spire is gone, that slept for centuries, Mirrored among the lilies, calm and low:And now the water holds but empty ...
FILL up, fill up the stirrup-cup! The wine is running free:The blue veils of the Spring are out; She dances on the ...
A ship sails up to Bideford;Upon a western breeze,Mast by mast, sail over sail,She rises from the seas,And sights the ...
These who were children yesterdayNow move in lovely flight,Swift-glancing as the shooting starsThat cleave the summer night;A moment flashed, they ...
WHEN first I saw you, in eclipse, A veil about your head,And wondered at those unseen lips With wit bediamonded:Then laughing down ...
NOW that the soul has left its throne Behind your mortal eyes,And light, and colour and sound are gone From the body's ...
O SILVER one, O silver one, Above the valley of the Bane:O stem with snow-water agleam, And glistening limbs, and trails of ...
Mourn not for these, the children of the spring :On Flemish plains and far Aegean sand,Mourn not for these, who ...
In this red havoc of the patient earth,Though higher yet the tide of battle rise,Now has the hero cast away ...
When the bow--waves race through the foamand aft are the boiling trails,What ship is that in the fading lightwith the ...
SHE lay beneath an apple tree, A marble maiden, free from care;And round her was a canopy Of moonlit air.He made his ...
HOODED in angry mist, the sun goes down:Steel-gray the clouds roll out across the Sea:Is this a Kingdom? Then give ...
THE sea-breeze beating on her brow,The foam asurge her shining feet,She stood,--a silver Victory,Poised high on some Athenian prow,Leading against ...
THE far guns boom: shell-struck the church is rolledSkyward athunder, dust of rose and gold:The staring villa stands. So goes ...
Hooded in angry mist, the sun goes down:Steel-gray the clouds roll out across the sea:Is this a Kingdom? Then give ...
FRIEND if all these verses die:Soon will you, and soon will IBut, if any word should live,Then that word to ...
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