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 ...
Robert Graves Poems on God (14 Poems)
Outlaws (Robert Graves Poems)
Owls: they whinney down the night, Bats go zigzag by.Ambushed in shadow out of sight The outlaws lie.Old gods, shrunk to shadows, ...
Knowledge Of God (Robert Graves Poems)
So far from praising he blasphemesWho says that God has been or is,Who swears he met with God in dreamsOr ...
The Boy Out Of Church (Robert Graves Poems)
As Jesus and his followers Upon a Sabbath mornWere walking by a wheat field They plucked the ears of corn.They plucked it, ...
Faun (Robert Graves Poem)
Here down this very way, Here only yesterday King Faun went leaping. He sang, with careless shout Hurling his name ...
An Old Twenty-Third Man (Robert Graves Poem)
"Is that the Three-and-Twentieth, Strabo mine, Marching below, and we still gulping wine?" From the sad magic of his fragrant ...
Smoke-Rings (Robert Graves Poem)
BOY Most venerable and learned sir, Tall and true Philosopher, These rings of smoke you blow all day With such ...
The Shivering Beggar (Robert Graves Poem)
NEAR Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, ...
Letter to S.S. from Mametz Wood (Robert Graves Poem)
I never dreamed we'd meet that day In our old haunts down Fricourt way, Plotting such marvellous journeys there For ...
The Last Post (Robert Graves Poem)
The bugler sent a call of high romance- "Lights out! Lights out!" to the deserted square. On the thin brazen ...
A Boy in Church (Robert Graves Poem)
"Gabble-gabble,. brethren,. gabble-gabble!" My window frames forest and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring ...
Goliath and David (Robert Graves Poem)
(For D. C. T., Killed at Fricourt, March, 1916) Yet once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: ...
Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend (Robert Graves Poem)
In my childhood rumors ran Of a world beyond our door- Terrors to the life of man That the highroad ...
The Naked And The Nude (Robert Graves Poem)
For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress ...