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 Man (27 Poems)
The Picture Book (Robert Graves Poems)
When I was not quite five years old I first saw the blue picture book,And Fraulein Spitzenburger toldStories that sent me ...
Dicky (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
The “Alice Jean” (Robert Graves Poems)
One moonlit night a ship drove in, A ghost ship from the west,Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller, Like a mermaid ...
Tom Taylor (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
A Slice Of Wedding Cake (Robert Graves Poems)
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out ...
The Well-Dressed Children (Robert Graves Poems)
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, ...
Thunder At Night (Robert Graves Poems)
Restless and hot two children lay Plagued with uneasy dreams,Each wandered lonely through false day A twilight torn with screams.True to the ...
Vain And Careless (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
Ghost Raddled (Robert Graves Poems)
"Come, surly fellow, come! A song!" What, madmen? Sing to you?Choose from the clouded tales of wrong And terror I bring to ...
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, ...
A First Review (Robert Graves Poems)
Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys Are here discreetly blent;Admire, you ladies, read, you boys, My Country Sentiment.But Kate says, "Cut ...
Here They Lie (Robert Graves Poems)
Here they lie who once learned here All that is taught of hurt or fear;Dead, but by free will they died: They ...
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 ...
Mr. Philosopher (Robert Graves Poem)
Old Mr. Philosopher Comes for Ben and Claire, An ugly man, a tall man, With bright-red hair. The books that ...
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 ...
Careers (Robert Graves Poem)
Father is quite the greatest poet That ever lived anywhere. You say you're going to write great music- I chose ...
The Bough of Nonsense (Robert Graves Poem)
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
Strong Beer (Robert Graves Poem)
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
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 ...
Lost Love (Robert Graves Poem)
His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or leaf Every instant grow; he can Clearly ...
Wild Strawberries (Robert Graves Poem)
Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the ...
Down, Wanton, Down! (Robert Graves Poem)
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise ...
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 ...