When I’m Killed (Robert Graves Poems)
When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With ...
Robert Graves Poems (118 Poems)
She Tells Her Love (Robert Graves Poem)
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her ...
Welsh Incident (Robert Graves Poem)
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
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: ...
I Hardly Remember (Robert Graves Poem)
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
Love Without Hope (Robert Graves Poem)
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let ...
The Beach (Robert Graves Poem)
Louder than gulls the little children scream Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; But others fearlessly rush in, breast ...
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, ...
The Cool Web (Robert Graves Poem)
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose, How ...
Love and Black Magic (Robert Graves Poem)
To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone; In his grotto the maiden sits alone. She gazes up ...
Free Verse (Robert Graves Poem)
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
Warning to Children (Robert Graves Poem)
Children, if you dare to think Of the greatness, rareness, muchness Fewness of this precious only Endless world in which ...
To Lucasta on Going to the War – For the Fourth Time (Robert Graves Poem)
It doesn't matter what's the cause, What wrong they say we're righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When ...
Call It a Good Marriage (Robert Graves Poem)
Call it a good marriage - For no one ever questioned Her warmth, his masculinity, Their interlocking views; Except one ...
To Juan at the Winter Solstice (Robert Graves Poem)
There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling, Whether as learned bard or gifted ...
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 ...
A Dead Boche (Robert Graves Poem)
To you who'd read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I'll say (you've heard it ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’d Love To Be A Fairy’s Child (Robert Graves Poems)
Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their ...
Counting The Beats (Robert Graves Poem)
You, love, and I, (He whispers) you and I, And if no more than only you and I What care ...
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 ...
Like Snow (Robert Graves Poem)
She, then, like snow in a dark night, Fell secretly. And the world waked With dazzling of the drowsy eye, ...
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 ...
Symptoms of Love (Robert Graves Poem)
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, ...
On Giving (Robert Graves Poem)
Those who dare give nothing Are left with less than nothing; Dear heart, you give me everything, Which leaves you ...
In Broken Images (Robert Graves Poem)
He is quick, thinking in clear images; I am slow, thinking in broken images. He becomes dull, trusting to his ...
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep (Robert Graves Poem)
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her ...