Baloo Loo For Jenny (Robert Graves Poems)
Sing baloo loo for Jenny And where is she gone?Away to spy her mother's land, Riding all alone.To the rich towns of ...
Robert Graves Poems (118 Poems)
The Beacon (Robert Graves Poems)
The silent shepherdess, She of my vows,Here with me exchanging love Under dim boughs.Shines on our mysteries A sudden spark--"Dout the candle, glow-worm, Let ...
The Three Drinkers (Robert Graves Poems)
Blacksmith Green had three strong sons, With bread and beef did fill 'em,Now John and Ned are perished and dead, But plenty ...
Nine O’Clock (Robert Graves Poems)
I.Nine of the clock, oh! Wake my lazy head!Your shoes of red morocco, Your silk bed-gown:Rouse, rouse, speck-eyed Mary In your high bed!A ...
Loving Henry (Robert Graves Poems)
Henry, Henry, do you love me?Do I love you, Mary?Oh, can you mean to liken meTo the aspen tree.Whose leaves ...
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 ...
A Song For Two Children (Robert Graves Poems)
"Make a song, father, a new little song, All for Jenny and Nancy."Balow lalow or Hey derry down, Or else what might ...
Song: One Hard Look (Robert Graves Poems)
Small gnats that flyIn hot JulyAnd lodge in sleeping ears,Can rouse thereinA trumpet's dinWith Day-of-Judgement fears.Small mice at nightCan wake ...
The Laureate (Robert Graves Poems)
Like a lizard in the sun, though not scuttlingWhen men approach, this wretch, this thing of rage,Scowls and sits rhyming ...
Give Us Rain (Robert Graves Poems)
"Give us Rain, Rain," said the bean and the pea, "Not so much Sun, Not so much Sun."But the Sun smiles bravely ...
Haunted (Robert Graves Poems)
Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine,Roar through the darkness, stamp and singAnd lay ghost hands on everything,But leave ...
Flying Crooked (Robert Graves Poems)
The butterfly, the cabbage white,(His honest idiocy of flight)Will never now, it is too late,Master the art of flying straight,Yet ...
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 ...
Finland (Robert Graves Poem)
Feet and faces tingle In that frore land: Legs wobble and go wingle, You scarce can stand. The skies are ...
To an Ungentle Critic (Robert Graves Poem)
The great sun sinks behind the town Through a red mist of Volnay wine.... But what's the use of setting ...
The Spoilsport (Robert Graves Poem)
My familiar ghost again Comes to see what he can see, Critic, son of Conscious Brain, Spying on our privacy. ...
The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward (Robert Graves Poem)
Why do you break upon this old, cool peace, This painted peace of ours, With harsh dress hissing like a ...
Faun (Robert Graves Poem)
Here down this very way, Here only yesterday King Faun went leaping. He sang, with careless shout Hurling his name ...
The Assault Heroic (Robert Graves Poem)
Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day Of five damned days and nights, Five sleepless ...
The Poet in the Nursery (Robert Graves Poem)
The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling In a dim library, just behind the chair From which the ancient ...
The Troll’s Nosegay (Robert Graves Poems)
A simple nosegay! Was that much to ask? (Winter still nagged, with scarce a bud yet showing.) He loved her ...
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 ...
An English Wood (Robert Graves Poem)
This valley wood is pledged To the set shape of things, And reasonably hedged: Here are no harpies fledged, No ...
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 ...
Corporal Stare (Robert Graves Poem)
Back from the line one night in June, I gave a dinner at Bethune- Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal ...
The Snapped Thread (Robert Graves Poem)
Desire, first, by a natural miracle United bodies, united hearts, blazed beauty; Transcended bodies, transcended hearts. Two souls, now unalterably ...
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, ...
Babylon (Robert Graves Poem)
The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry ...
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 ...