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 (118 Poems)
The God Called Poetry (Robert Graves Poems)
Now I begin to know at last,These nights when I sit down to rhyme,The form and measure of that vastGod ...
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 ...
Recalling War (Robert Graves Poems)
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,The track aches only when the rain reminds.The one-legged man forgets his leg of ...
Sullen Moods (Robert Graves Poems)
Love, do not count your labour lost Though I turn sullen, grim, retired Even at your side; my thought is crossed With fancies ...
The Voice Of Beauty Drowned (Robert Graves Poems)
'Cry from the thicket my heart's bird!'The other birds woke all around;Rising with toot and howl they stirredTheir plumage, broke ...
The General Elliott (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
Sospan Fach (Robert Graves Poems)
(The Little Saucepan)Four collier lads from Ebbw ValeTook shelter from a shower of hail,And there beneath a spreading treeAttuned their ...
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 ...
Rocky Acres (Robert Graves Poems)
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Hawk And Buckle (Robert Graves Poems)
Where is the landlord of old Hawk and Buckle,And what of Master Straddler this hot summer weather?He's along in the ...
True Johnny (Robert Graves Poems)
Mary: Johnny, sweetheart, can you be trueTo all those famous vows you've made?Will you love me as I love youUntil ...
Fox’s Dingle (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
Manticor In Arabia (Robert Graves Poems)
(The manticors of the montainesMighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.)Thick and scented daisies spreadWhere with surface dull like leadArabian pools ...
Nebuchadnezzar’s Fall (Robert Graves Poems)
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,The King of Persia walked: ...
Allie (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Neglectful Edward (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
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, ...
Apples And Water (Robert Graves Poems)
Dust in a cloud, blinding weather, Drums that rattle and roar!A mother and daughter stood together Beside their cottage door."Mother, the heavens ...
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 ...
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 Promised Lullaby (Robert Graves Poems)
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 ...
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 Lover Since Childhood (Robert Graves Poems)
Tangled in thought am I,Stumble in speech do I?Do I blunder and blush for the reason why?Wander aloof do I,Lean ...