This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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35780 | ***** Do you remember, old fellow, When we fished near Altenahr, Where the red wine was flowing And the bowl flashed a star? |
35780 | But, Mister, I''ve a thing to ask;--_ Am I not beautiful?_ Speak true." |
35780 | Do you remember the big schutzmann, With his sword by his side, Who guessed that you were poaching, And scared you off to hide? |
36094 | How can we Fool the Rooster? |
40462 | And must they cry in vain? |
40462 | And who has oil and wine enough? |
40462 | [ Illustration] Oh, who shall staunch such world- wide woe-- Such universe of pain? |
20123 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC Who knows how many thousand years ago The twelvefold Zodiac was made to show The course of stars above and men below? |
20123 | V What wreaths shall we entwine For our dear boys to deck their holy shrine? |
20123 | What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o''the mainmast tall? |
20123 | Why should we care to be alive Unless the world is free? |
35996 | What widows, orphans, sweethearts see their dead This cruel, hopeless dawn? |
35996 | Who could but think-- deep in some sun- flecked glade-- How God must love these things that He has made? |
35996 | Why such grief am I to know? |
35996 | Why? |
35996 | are you more than just a passing dream Beside the city''s slim and lovely stream? |
47144 | Are you cold too, poor Pleiads, This frosty night? |
47144 | Did you hear that, Great She- bear, This frosty night? |
47144 | How is your trade, Aquarius, This frosty night? |
47144 | What do you hunt, Orion, This starry night? |
47144 | Angelic choirs? |
47144 | For those who live uprightly and die true Heaven has no bars or locks, And serves all taste.... Or what''s for him to do Up there, but hunt the fox? |
47144 | I have often felt and sung,"It''s a good thing to be young: Though the preacher says it''s folly, Is it foolish to be jolly?" |
47144 | OVER THE BRAZIER What life to lead and where to go After the War, after the War? |
47144 | PART I.--Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse--1910- 1914 STAR- TALK"Are you awake, Gemelli, This frosty night?" |
47144 | Some bad fairy stole The baby I nursed: Was this my pretty little soul, This changeling accursed? |
47144 | THE TRENCHES(_ Heard in the Ranks_) Scratches in the dirt? |
15937 | Going to keep that sweater? |
15937 | Whatcha got there, Buddy? |
15937 | ( One''s enough, I''ll say) How the hell''d you do it On five sous a day? |
15937 | I suppose we''ll keep on going-- Huh? |
15937 | The Skipper''s faced about? |
15937 | Then up in the trenches It was just the same,"When''s it going to finish?" |
15937 | This is the kind of man who made that victory possible[ Illustration: A"walking case"] A"walking case"-- France, August-18[ Illustration: Toul(?) |
15937 | What the hell''s the rush to get-- out there? |
15937 | What''s the use? |
15937 | Where''d I put that plug of Climax? |
15937 | Where''s Charlie? |
41985 | ( Up to date) 28 Farewells à la Mode 29 Sunset 30 Sursum Corda 31 Lying in State 32 Wind- pedlars 33 Dulce et Decorum? |
41985 | 35 Succory 36 Dreams Trespassing 37"What shall be done with all these tears of ours?" |
41985 | What comforting makes them strong? |
41985 | What faith in our victory? |
41985 | What heaven- sent hilarity? |
41985 | What hopes that beguile and bless? |
41985 | What mirth and what weariness? |
41985 | What trust and what fears have they That march without music or song To death at the end of the way? |
41985 | What valour from vanished years In the heart of youth confined? |
41985 | What wellsprings of unshed tears For the loves they leave behind? |
41985 | _"What shall be done with all these tears of ours? |
33681 | And how shall I repay? |
33681 | Has your last word of sophistry been said, O cult of slaves? |
33681 | Have I not reared for thee time and again And bid go forth to share thy fierce embraces Sea- ducks, sea- wolves, sea- rovers, and sea- men? |
33681 | How should I pay for one poor graven steeple Whereon you shattered what you shall not know? |
33681 | How should I pay you, miserable people, How should I pay you everything you owe? |
33681 | If he would bargain for thy friend, What would he trade for Liberty? |
33681 | Must I for more than carnage call you claimant, Paying you a penny for each son you slay? |
33681 | Say, thou, who hast watched through ages that are lengthless, Whom have I feared, and when did I forget? |
33681 | Though I forgave, would any man forget? |
33681 | Unhappy, can I give you back your honour? |
33681 | What is the price of that dead man they brought me? |
33681 | What is the price of that red spark that caught me From a kind farm that never had a name? |
33681 | What sons of mine have shunned thy whorls and races? |
52559 | ```` Did she? |
52559 | ```` What are the men about? |
52559 | ```` What do his heart- strings drone all day? |
52559 | ```` What do they throb all night? |
52559 | ```` What does he sit and write? |
52559 | ```` What were his chances of coming````` through? |
52559 | ```` Which of his friends remain? |
52559 | ```` Would_ they_ choose to have````` lived and lost? |
52559 | ````"My Sergeant''s plan, Sir"--````"And that''s not bad--```` But you''ve lost that ribbon````` you wear?" |
52559 | ````"What''s wrong with that mir-````` ror?"'' |
52559 | |AND Ermyntrude, did she````` lose her all```` Or find it, two years ago? |
52559 | |IS it a part of the dream of````` dread? |
52559 | |WHAT, indeed, does the```` Ensign say? |
37154 | Do you hear the call of our Mother From over the sea, from over the sea? |
37154 | Do you hear the call of our Mother From over the sea, from over the sea? |
37154 | GOD''S NEW YEAR''S GIFT What shall the coming year bring forth, O Lord, who rulest the land? |
37154 | Have they asked from Thee a sign? |
37154 | Is it"Bobs"of Kandahar the Empire''s armies led? |
37154 | Is this your culture, sons of Kant, And ye who kneel''round Goethe''s throne? |
37154 | The battalions in the field go forth; They arm in mighty line; Do they kneel to know Thy holy will? |
37154 | To carry in your knapsacks death? |
37154 | To feel for man nor ruth nor moan? |
37154 | What''vail your cities, walls and towers If half your progress be a lie? |
37154 | What''vails it now your mighty guns If God be mightier in the sky? |
37154 | Who is he that cometh to join our mighty dead? |
37154 | You have sought more spacious realm In the free and genial sun: Has your sceptre widened any With the salvo of each gun? |
37154 | _ For Sir Wilfrid Laurier._ THE BUGLE CALL Do you hear the call of our Mother, From over the sea, from over the sea? |
9388 | Am I a starving beggar girl? 9388 Now come,"she said to the captains ten, Who were ready to put to sea,"Ye are all my men and my father''s men, And what will ye do for me?" |
9388 | A SCRAP OF PAPER"Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?" |
9388 | And shall they ring to- night, Malines? |
9388 | But dost_ thou_ prosper? |
9388 | Do you hear the storm of cheers Mingled with the women''s tears And the tramp, tramp, tramp of marching feet? |
9388 | Do you hear the throbbing drum As the hosts of battle come Keeping time, time, time to its beat? |
9388 | In this fair land of freedom and romance? |
9388 | Is it the end of all? |
9388 | MARE LIBERUM I You dare to say with perjured lips,"We fight to make the ocean free"? |
9388 | O dearest country, is it well with thee Indeed, and is thy soul in health? |
9388 | Shall I ever lack for bread?" |
9388 | To signal war''s alarms, Hark, a sudden trumpet calling Over the hill Why are you calling, trumpet, calling? |
9388 | What is your will? |
9388 | What tunes are these that gently fall Around you like a benison? |
9388 | Will the land crumble and fall? |
34966 | For what man Would come among you sober? |
34966 | Fragile, tremulous Haunters of the deep glades, Whose fingers part the leaves Of beech and aspen ere ye slip thro'', Shall I see ye again? |
34966 | Hath not thy child, Persephone, tall men, Yea, even all the children of the earth, Bringing her tribute? |
34966 | How may love snare thy soul, or know the ways thereof? |
34966 | How may mine eyes behold my naked soul No more arrayed in wings of my desire? |
34966 | How shall I come again into my peace, So heavy is the darkness on eyes and feet? |
34966 | How shall I forget? |
34966 | Knowing no longer that earth Lieth in the dews, shining and sacred? |
34966 | Let us laugh and understand each other, For how could I blame you, my friends, When ye are so generous With the fruit of your thefts? |
34966 | Love, who begat us, shall Love slay us utterly? |
34966 | REACTION What make you here, Aphrodite, Lady of the Golden Cymbals, Would you dance to awaken earth again As of old on Ida? |
34966 | Sit''st thou thus wisely silent, With subtile and inviolate eyes, Knowing us but the shadow of thy substance, As transitory as the leaves? |
34966 | THE FAUN Kore, O Kore, where art thou fled, Now that the spring blows white in the land? |
34966 | What gifts have we to bring the Lord? |
34966 | What have ye, O wise ones? |
34966 | What maketh Mary''s face so pale? |
34966 | Who shall forget thee having seen thy face? |
34966 | Who shall hoard up life As it were but a heap of golden discs? |
34966 | Ye go forth into the furrows, but who shall come to the reaping? |
34966 | Ye, being mockers, said: What profiteth him his singing? |
34966 | Yet what song shall snare the feet Of white dawn upon the wheat? |
34966 | but thou wert too fair To seek among the dim realms of the dead Love: and what hands will tremble in thine hair Or lips faint on thy lips? |
16904 | ''Ello, soldier, howja do? |
16904 | How are you doing? 16904 Soldier, soldier, how''re you?" |
16904 | And when the scrap is past and done, Where''s Trigger Ribb? |
16904 | Billy Khaki, is''t the splendor of the song the kiddies sing, Or the whipping of the flags aloft that sets your heart a- swing? |
16904 | Dames ez smilin''ez a mother, Ev''ry man ver fav''rit brother:"''Ello, Jumbo, how is it?" |
16904 | Good''n''fit?" |
16904 | Great it is, the''earty greetin''s, Friendly digs,''n''cheerful meetin''s"''Ello, Jumbo, howja do?" |
16904 | He flung away-- how should he know My foolish heart was dancin''so? |
16904 | How should he know that at his word My soul was trillin''like a bird? |
16904 | Is''t the cheering like a paean of the toss- ing, teeming crowds, Or the boom of distant cannon flatly bumping on the clouds? |
16904 | Long, cold lagers from the wood, Ev''ry cobber jumpin''at you, Strangers duckin''in to bat you-"Good ole Jumbo, how''re you?" |
16904 | Say,''oo has a better right to? |
16904 | Says Tom:"Who rides the mail track now? |
16904 | We got no beer, the soup was bad- Now oo will stand the soldier lad The swag of honest liquor that for years he has n''t''ad?" |
16904 | Well, where''s the single- handed brace Will take us on? |
16904 | What is calling, Billy Khaki, that you''re foot- ing it so free? |
16904 | What is calling, Billy Khaki? |
16904 | What''s calling, calling, Billy? |
16904 | Where is war''s pomp and circumstance, The gauds in which we prank it? |
16904 | Where''s yer bloomin''sense iv duty? |
16904 | Where''s yer''orse sense, little feller? |
16904 | Who herdin''Stringer''s cattle?" |
16904 | You furnished heroes for the fray, Your sterling merit''s widely blown To all men''s satisfaction say, Now have you proved it to your own? |
16904 | what is the matter?" |
353 | How shall I bear my light across? |
353 | Not John McCrae? |
353 | Pharpar and Abana? |
353 | Dear Jack, Did you ever eat blackberries? |
353 | Despairing, he cried,"After all these years Is there naught but hatred and strife and tears?" |
353 | Did you ever have a sore hock? |
353 | Do you wonder that the road got on our nerves? |
353 | High heaven is higher than cathedral nave: Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky?" |
353 | How are Sergt.-Major Jack and Corporal David? |
353 | How did you make it? |
353 | How is the 15th Street Brigade getting on? |
353 | How should they know the vigils that I keep, The tears I shed? |
353 | How would you like it if twenty or thirty soldiers came along and lived in your house and put their horses in the shed or the stable? |
353 | Is n''t it pitiful? |
353 | It is rather funny for a soldier- horse, is it not? |
353 | Recompense I saw two sowers in Life''s field at morn, To whom came one in angel guise and said,"Is it for labour that a man is born? |
353 | Should n''t I know? |
353 | They are, he went on to expound, a recurrence of the ancient question:"How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?" |
353 | What harm can ye wreak more on me or on mine? |
353 | What have you to do with medicine? |
353 | Where would ye have me lie? |
38071 | Can it be the War- Lord blundered when he urged the enterprise? |
38071 | Can you recall the fateful day-- a day of drifting skies, When you started on the famous Calais onset? |
38071 | Great Guide, I ask you still,"Wherefore I?" |
38071 | Have we not read Thy ways aright? |
38071 | How could your cheeks be wet? |
38071 | How is it now with England? |
38071 | How long, O Lord?" |
38071 | How was it then with England? |
38071 | How was it then with England? |
38071 | How was it then with England? |
38071 | I could speak for a week, But how could you understand? |
38071 | Or was it in November? |
38071 | Such feelin''s do n''t come to you; But how can me or my mates forget How the Guards came through? |
38071 | VICTRIX How was it then with England? |
38071 | Was it in October last? |
38071 | What do the soldiers say? |
38071 | What does the enemy say? |
38071 | What does the officer say? |
38071 | What does the public say? |
38071 | Where are our laddies who died out there, From Poelcapelle to Festubert, When the days grew short and the poplars bare In the cold November blast? |
38071 | shall I ever forget? |
59800 | ''Afraid to fight; was murder more disgrace? |
59800 | ''Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant? |
59800 | ''_ Who''s that? |
59800 | ( Poor blundering files, Sweating and blindly burdened; who''s to know If death will catch them in those two dark miles?) |
59800 | ******* And you? |
59800 | Above the years You soar... Is death so bad? |
59800 | And you, my friend, will query--''Why ca n''t you cut it short, you pompous blighter?'' |
59800 | Do you ever stop and ask,''Is it all going to happen again?'' |
59800 | How did you do them in? |
59800 | I could sing But for a moment,--but for beauty''s sake._''Who passes? |
59800 | II In a strange house I woke; heard overhead Hastily- thudding feet and a muffled scream...( Is death like that?) |
59800 | Is''t a battle?_''More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles. |
59800 | Once I came home on leave: and then went west... What greater glory could a man desire? |
59800 | Some Lydian coin? |
59800 | THE DUG- OUT Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen, cold, Exhausted face? |
59800 | Well, what''s the news to- night about the Strike? |
59800 | What''s all this mob at the cross- roads? |
59800 | Where are the guides?... |
59800 | Who speaks? |
59800 | You saw me Fix that saloon? |
59800 | _ But the past is just the same-- and War''s a bloody game... Have you forgotten yet? |
59800 | _ Have you forgotten yet? |
8433 | Who''ll buy? 8433 ***** Is life like that? 8433 And you? 8433 Are the dogs expecting us At the gate? 8433 Are the dragons awake? 8433 Are the dragons sleepers? 8433 At any rate I missed you, and you went, The last day''s absolutely final bird, Scathless, and left me very ill content; And someone( was it I?) 8433 But where was the dragon, the scale- clad dragon, the dragon that Dickon saw, The genuine dragon, The pitiless dragon, The dragon that knew no law? 8433 But who are these In the shade of the trees That creep so slow In a stealthy row? 8433 Ca n''t you see him? 8433 I''m old and broken, I''m lame and tired, But I''ve come to the friends my soul desired.__ So it''s watches and lockets, and who will buy? |
8433 | Or did my silly loader put me off With aimless chatter in regard to golf? |
8433 | Take a look at his eyes; I put it to you, Were ever two eyes more truly blue? |
8433 | Two, who usually prize us, Will they jump and make a fuss? |
8433 | Whence had he come there? |
8433 | Who hunts the dragon?" |
8433 | Who''ll buy?" |
8433 | Will they meet and scatter these crafty creepers? |
8433 | Will they really recognise us Where they wait? |
8433 | Would you not treat them gently if you knew Pansies are little bits of children too? |
8930 | Hello, you know Siegfried Sassoon then, do you? 8930 Impressions? |
8930 | Magic? 8930 What''opes?" |
8930 | What? 8930 When are you going out to them again? |
8930 | Why are you here with all your watches ended? 8930 _ Who put that silly gag in some one''s head? |
8930 | Are they not still your brothers through our blood?" |
8930 | But here what can he do? |
8930 | Can he then see nothing else in war? |
8930 | DOES IT MATTER? |
8930 | Did not the fact of war arch him in like a dirty blood- red sky? |
8930 | Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit? |
8930 | Does it matter?--losing your leg? |
8930 | Does it matter?--losing your sight? |
8930 | Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it? |
8930 | How many lives had he not seen spilled apparently to no purpose? |
8930 | Now light your pipe; look, what a steady hand, Draw a deep breath; stop thinking, count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain... Why wo n''t it rain? |
8930 | Some one killed?" |
8930 | Stretcher- bearers wanted? |
8930 | TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven? |
8930 | Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night? |
8930 | Very rarely does he attain to the poignant simplicity of''The Hawthorn Tree''or the detached irony of''Does it Matter?'' |
8930 | What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need? |
8930 | What''s magic got to do with you? |
8930 | Which will you read? |
8930 | Who''ll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny? |
8930 | when_ will_ it stop? |
52561 | And the one with the ribbon who''s home on leave? |
52561 | But who are the ones they can help or harm? |
52561 | He can not see out of either,"Who are the ones that we can not see, Though we feel them as near as near? 52561 My Sergeant''s plan, Sir"--"And that''s not bad-- But you''ve lost that ribbon you wear?" |
52561 | What''s wrong with that mir- ror?'' |
52561 | Who is the one with the heavy stick, Who seems to walk from the shoulder? |
52561 | _ That_ the big thing we''re doin''? |
52561 | AND Ermyntrude, did she lose her all Or find it, two years ago? |
52561 | Cricket? |
52561 | Did she? |
52561 | Did we play footer in funny long flannels? |
52561 | HE picks her up in a tender storm-- But how does it come to pass That he can not see his reflected form With hers in the studio glass? |
52561 | Had we no Corps to give zest to our drill? |
52561 | Half of your best buildings were quarry- stone still? |
52561 | IS it a part of the dream of dread? |
52561 | Like a noisy clock, or a steamer''s screw, Their beat debauched the ear, And left it dead to a deafening few That burst who cared how near? |
52561 | Never a Gym lined throughout with pine panels? |
52561 | Said he to an American( with other words of his):"It''s a big thing you are doing-- do you know how big it is?" |
52561 | THE OLD BOYS( 1917)"Who is the one with the empty sleeve?" |
52561 | There was n''t his match when he went away; But since he got back, there has not been a day But what he has earned a V. C A CYNICAL story? |
52561 | WHAT, indeed, does the Ensign say? |
52561 | What are the men about? |
52561 | What do his heart- strings drone all day? |
52561 | What do they throb all night? |
52561 | What does he sit and write? |
52561 | What were his chances of coming through? |
52561 | Which of his friends remain? |
52561 | While others carry on, The little wooden crosses spell but the dead and gone? |
52561 | Who gave him that name? |
52561 | Who is the one that''s so full of fun-- I never beheld a blither-- Yet his eyes are fixt as the furrow betwixt?" |
52561 | Who says their war is over? |
52561 | Would_ they_ choose to have lived and lost? |
1034 | --O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth''s sleep at all? |
1034 | And who''s that talking, somewhere out of sight? |
1034 | Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing- bells for these who die as cattle? |
1034 | Are limbs so dear- achieved, are sides Full- nerved,--still warm,--too hard to stir? |
1034 | D''you think the Boche will ever stew man- soup? |
1034 | He''ll change the sheets When I''m lugged out, oh, could n''t I do that? |
1034 | Is it that we are dying? |
1034 | Is one too good to spare, too long? |
1034 | Is one too hard to spare? |
1034 | Malingering? |
1034 | Mental Cases Who are these? |
1034 | Must I be his load? |
1034 | Must I be his load? |
1034 | Not sniped? |
1034 | Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? |
1034 | Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age? |
1034 | Shall they return to beatings of great bells In wild trainloads? |
1034 | Stroke on stroke of pain,--but what slow panic, Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets? |
1034 | Surely we have perished Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish? |
1034 | Tell me how long I''ve got? |
1034 | Too long? |
1034 | V We wise, who with a thought besmirch Blood over all our soul, How should we see our task But through his blunt and lashless eyes? |
1034 | Was it for this the clay grew tall? |
1034 | What are we doing here? |
1034 | What candles may be held to speed them all? |
1034 | What''s inside that jug? |
1034 | Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skulls''tongues wicked? |
1034 | Why are they laughing? |
1034 | Why do n''t they come And put him into bed? |
1034 | Why do n''t they come? |
1034 | Why sit they here in twilight? |
1034 | Your fifty years ahead seem none too many? |
34269 | And please now, Mr. Warnock, Just tell us if you will What you''d do with this problem If you were Sergeant Hill? |
34269 | Mr. Whitney, wo n''t you tell us Of patrols both front and rear? 34269 THE SIMULATING OF THE GREEN"(_ Air:"Wearing of the Green"_) Oh, Major dear, and did you hear the news that''s going round? |
34269 | Will someone please perform right face? 34269 24 C. L. Yates, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. A TEST OF DISCIPLINE27 C. L. Yates, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. WHAT''S YOUR NAME?" |
34269 | And when it said:"What do you do?" |
34269 | Are ye men? |
34269 | As for the Third, he spoke no word But hastened on his way, Until at last a whisper passed:"How did_ you_ die today?" |
34269 | But is it_ my_ fault? |
34269 | But what else could I do? |
34269 | Camaraderie beside the lake... fellow for fellow, What does it matter? |
34269 | D''you suppose he gives a tinker''s damn If when you''re lying prone, The pack comes up behind your ears And whacks you on the dome? |
34269 | Did your stomach turn over and stand up on end, When you dropped the damn thing on your toes? |
34269 | Do n''t you feel, enchanting sprite, My pep? |
34269 | FORWARD"?" |
34269 | INOCULATION DAY My blood the surgeons fortify With antiseptic serum; The dread bacilli I defy, What cause have I to fear''em? |
34269 | Lady, in your stockings white, Do n''t you note my altered step? |
34269 | Lemonade and other things, Taken on march, Have been known to cause Soldiers to die, and pie? |
34269 | My throat and mouth are full of paste There''s nothing in my hat; My belt is winding round my waist But where''s my stomach at? |
34269 | O. R. C., Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. THE CALL 73 Allen Bean MacMurphy, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. BEANS 74 Charles H. Ramsey, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. FORWARD"?" |
34269 | Often, when''neath their eyes we pass, I hear some maiden sigh divinely, And murmur to another lass,"Dear, is n''t_ Jackie_ marching finely?" |
34269 | So they sent us up to Plattsburg, do n''t you see? |
34269 | THE MANUAL Did you ever run into the butt of your gun, Or dig the front sight with your nose? |
34269 | Tell me, where did I make that break? |
34269 | Then I think of the millions Who have none for whom to be lonely, French, English, German, Russ.... What does it matter the language? |
34269 | Think, and you know not what he meant to say-- He knows not neither, so-- ah, what''s the use? |
34269 | Though upon my manly back There reposes half a ton, Why repine against a pack Or gun? |
34269 | When coming to Port did the rifle fall short, And the swivel ram into your fist? |
34269 | When the rest did present did you so intent Find a count that the others had missed? |
34269 | [ Illustration: MESS? |
34269 | [ Illustration: WHAT''S YOUR NAME?] |
617 | And the barbed wire, was n''t it cut down by the bombardment? |
617 | And where have you been all the time, and what have you been doing? |
617 | Why did you enlist? |
617 | Alas, what temper is conceived so ill But, Pity moving not, Love''s soft enthralment will? |
617 | And am-I- then Upon a bed of roses?" |
617 | And now? |
617 | And would his lot have been the less enviable? |
617 | Can Art acclaim No hero now, no man with whom men side As with their hearts''high needs personified? |
617 | Did not the benefits and blessings they had received point them a duty that heart and conscience could not deny? |
617 | Did you find the season too cold and damp To change the counter for the camp? |
617 | Do you suppose the herdsman sometimes hears Vague echoes borne beneath the moon''s pale ray From those old, old, far- off, forgotten years? |
617 | England, which side is thine? |
617 | Has Nature marred his mould? |
617 | How could they endure it? |
617 | IV What is Success? |
617 | Is n''t it pretty? |
617 | So far back indeed as May, 1912, he had written to his mother from Paris:"Is it not fine the way the Balkan States are triumphing? |
617 | Sonnet XVI Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest, With single rites the common debt to pay? |
617 | Were you frightened by fevers in Mexico? |
617 | What is so fair as lovers in their joy That dies in sleep, their sleep that wakes in joy? |
617 | What is that exquisite stanza in''Maud''about''in the evening through the lilacs( or laurels) of the old manorial home''? |
617 | What is the stimulus in their slogans of"Gott mit uns"and"Fuer Koenig und Vaterland"beside that of men really fighting in defense of their country? |
617 | Where have ye hidden it-- the chested gold? |
617 | Who knows? |
617 | Why did he take this step? |
617 | Will you turn your back on him once again? |
617 | for me? |
10122 | Once the Galatians built a fane To Sense: what duller God than that? |
10122 | Tell us, now, how and when We may find the bravest men? |
10122 | AN OLD TWENTY- THIRD MAN"Is that the Three- and- Twentieth, Strabo mine, Marching below, and we still gulping wine?" |
10122 | And since we lads are proud and true, What else remains to do? |
10122 | Gardener, cursing at the weed, Ere you curse it further, say: Who but you planted the seed In my fertile heart, one day? |
10122 | He stooped, he touched the beggar man''s shoulder; He asked him did the frost nip colder? |
10122 | I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED? |
10122 | Is that the Legion, Gracchus? |
10122 | JOHN SKELTON What could be dafter Than John Skelton''s laughter? |
10122 | Jonah is vexed; He cries,"What next? |
10122 | Loud wept the desolate God, Scorn on scorn heaping,"Faun, what is he, Faun, what is he?" |
10122 | Nurse says the Moon can drive you mad? |
10122 | Pity? |
10122 | SORLEY''S WEATHER When outside the icy rain Comes leaping helter- skelter, Shall I tie my restive brain Snugly under shelter? |
10122 | STRONG BEER"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" |
10122 | Shall I drink with Shelley? |
10122 | Shall I glutton here with Keats? |
10122 | Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When outside the winds blow strong And the lanes are muddy? |
10122 | So where to rank old Skelton? |
10122 | Some say worms win resurrection, With white wings beating flitter- flutter, But wings or a sound sleep, why should I care? |
10122 | TWO FUSILIERS And have we done with War at last? |
10122 | Though she be angry, though she would Destroy all England if she could, Yet think, what damage can she do Hanging there so far from you? |
10122 | Well? |
10122 | What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? |
10122 | Where are they now? |
10122 | Who''s that Saint by the lake? |
10122 | Why do you churn smooth waters rough again, Selfish old skin- and- bone? |
10122 | Why in this cold and rime, Where even to dream is pain? |
10122 | Why should I keep him time? |
10122 | With old wine and drowsy meats Am I to fill my belly? |
10122 | _ A fresh wind fills the evening air With horrid crying of night birds...._ But what reads new or curious there When cold winds fly across the air? |
10122 | and''Prestopuff''? |
10122 | what next?" |
13886 | What masquerade is this? |
13886 | Where is the Army goin''to? |
13886 | Where is the Trooper goin''to? |
13886 | Where is the''Doughboy''goin''to? |
13886 | Where is the''Gunner''goin''to? |
13886 | Why do n''t you do it? 13886 8:45 A. M.--GUARD MOUNT Guard Mount, my name was n''t booked; How is it I was overlooked? 13886 And afar When the day Goeth day, Must thou go Cometh night; And the night And a star Day is done Leadeth all, Leave me so? 13886 But why should you be predestined By the scent of an innocent oil? 13886 DANNY DEEVER BALLADWhere''re all the soldiers goin''to?" |
13886 | Death, will it lose, or Life, will it win, Who''ll be the"winner"at the great"Cash- in"? |
13886 | Do they heed us a- dying in garrison life? |
13886 | For it''s pay- day, pay- day, pay- day; Ca n''t you hear the bugles call? |
13886 | I try to do all they require me, but, God, who can do all that? |
13886 | IS HE A SOREHEAD? |
13886 | If tears? |
13886 | Millions of mothers so anxious at home, Who will wear crepe for loved ones, alone? |
13886 | Millions of sweethearts who''ll weep o''er the"lists,"Which lovers the lips ne''er more to be kissed? |
13886 | Our fathers used to think that way, But we are wiser(?) |
13886 | QUEEN OF MAY If you wake, why, call me early-- call me early, wo n''t you, bunk? |
13886 | So what''s the odds to you and me? |
13886 | THE SLACKER Why do n''t he volunteer to serve In Uncle Sammy''s grand reserve? |
13886 | Ten million shrapnel shrieking o''er head, Which Conscript to reckon among their dead? |
13886 | The Chief of Staff sits up above and wonders"wot fell?" |
13886 | Thousands of wounds, a- gaping and wide, Who will recover, and who will have died? |
13886 | We''ll get what''s coming, do n''t you see? |
13886 | What were the"odds"that Fate would select Me for a Conscript-- another reject? |
13886 | While these things sting, What''s that to us? |
13886 | With a leggin- string you''re fussin''When the band begins to play, And you listen, and stop cussin'',-- What is that the bugles say? |
13886 | Ye''ve eyes like a bat, can ye see in the dark? |
13886 | You may, For aught you know, or others say, Be entertaining, unawares, An angel; and, if not, who cares? |
13886 | asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?" |
13886 | asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?" |
13886 | asked Files- on- Parade,"And what is he a- goin''to do?" |
13886 | asked Files- on- Parade,"What are they all a- goin''to do?" |
13886 | said Files- on- Parade,"And what is it a''goin''to do?" |
14757 | Impressions? 14757 What''opes?" |
14757 | What? 14757 When are you going out to them again? |
14757 | Why are you here with all your watches ended? 14757 _ How peaceful are the dead._"Who put that silly gag in some one''s head? |
14757 | _ What''s all this mob, by the cross- road?_( The guides)...."_ Lead on with Number One_"( And off they go.) |
14757 | _ Who''s that? 14757 ***** And you? 14757 And, while he blunders,Could anything be worse than this?" |
14757 | Are n''t they glorious men?... |
14757 | Are they not still your brothers through our blood?" |
14757 | Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant? |
14757 | DOES IT MATTER? |
14757 | Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?... |
14757 | Do you ever stop and ask,"Is it all going to happen again?" |
14757 | Does it matter?--losing your legs?... |
14757 | Does it matter?--losing your sight?... |
14757 | Draw a deep breath; stop thinking; count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain.... Why wo n''t it rain?... |
14757 | Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?... |
14757 | He''s young; he hated war; how should he die When cruel old campaigners win safe through? |
14757 | How did you do them in? |
14757 | Is''t a battle?_"More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles. |
14757 | Of things like these I love to think When I can never be alone: Then some one says,"Another drink?" |
14757 | Some one killed?" |
14757 | Stretcher- bearers wanted? |
14757 | TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven? |
14757 | Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night? |
14757 | Then a Girl- Guide looked in to say,"Will Captain Croesus come this way?" |
14757 | What greater glory could a man desire? |
14757 | What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need? |
14757 | Which will you read? |
14757 | _ But the past is just the same,--and War''s a bloody game,... Have you forgotten yet?... |
14757 | _ Have you forgotten yet?... |
14757 | when_ will_ it stop? |
45199 | Impressions? 45199 What''opes?" |
45199 | What? 45199 When are you going out to them again? |
45199 | Why are you here with all your watches ended? 45199 _ Fritz is there!__ Christ, ai n''t it lively, Sergeant? |
45199 | _ What''s all this mob, by the cross- road?_( The guides)..."_ Lead on with Number One_." |
45199 | _ Who''s that? 45199 ***** And you? 45199 ... Poor blundering files, Sweating and blindly burdened; who''s to know If death will catch them in those two dark miles? 45199 And tell Him that our Politicians swear They wo n''t give in till Prussian Rule''s been trod Under the Heel of England.... Are you there?... 45199 And, while he blunders,Could anything be worse than this?" |
45199 | Are n''t they glorious men?... |
45199 | Are they not still your brothers through our blood?" |
45199 | DOES IT MATTER? |
45199 | Do they matter?--those dreams from the pit?... |
45199 | Do you ever stop and ask,"Is it all going to happen again?" |
45199 | Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz,-- The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets? |
45199 | Does it matter?--losing your legs?... |
45199 | Does it matter?--losing your sight?... |
45199 | Draw a deep breath; stop thinking; count fifteen, And you''re as right as rain.... Why wo n''t it rain?... |
45199 | Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?... |
45199 | He''s young; he hated war; how should he die When cruel old campaigners win safe through? |
45199 | How did you do them in? |
45199 | Is''t a battle?_"More rain: the lightning blinks, and thunder rumbles. |
45199 | Of things like these I love to think When I can never be alone: Then some one says,"Another drink?" |
45199 | Some one killed?" |
45199 | Stretcher- bearers wanted? |
45199 | TO ANY DEAD OFFICER Well, how are things in Heaven? |
45199 | Tell me, have you found everlasting day, Or been sucked in by everlasting night? |
45199 | Then a Girl- Guide looked in to say,"Will Captain Croesus come this way?" |
45199 | What greater glory could a man desire? |
45199 | What means this metal in windy belfries hung When guns are all our need? |
45199 | Which will you read? |
45199 | Who put that silly gag in some one''s head? |
45199 | _ Have you forgotten yet?_..._ Look up, and swear by the green of the Spring that you''ll never forget_. |
45199 | when_ will_ it stop? |
60371 | Master thou whose cause I cherish, Master thou who reign''st in hell, Am I worthy of thy kinship? 60371 ''Tis a sad lass I am with loving you only, Will you never come back to your Irish colleen? 60371 And is it glad or is it sad, that missive''s written page, Postmarked from France where men advance and frightful battles rage? 60371 And why are all the people stirred and what is it they say? 60371 Brave little buffeted ship, Battered and blown in life''s gale, Where is your port in the storm? 60371 CUPID''S ARROW Say, have you met her? 60371 Canst thou remember Byron and refrain? 60371 Cried aloud in gleeful frenzy,Who would wish to be divine, When as fiend he reigns the master of unnumbered slaves of wine?" |
60371 | Did she but smile to betray? |
60371 | Dost thou oft weep with troubled heart and brain, Between each letter''s ever- length''ning wait? |
60371 | Hast Thou no rod this crowned Ghoul to flay? |
60371 | Hast thou forgotten one of Saxon strain? |
60371 | Have we not seen His fiery messengers, Hard riding on some planet- rounding course Across the ranges of infinity? |
60371 | Have you seen it kiss the foreheads of the mourners as they weep? |
60371 | Have you seen the falling raindrops, like a blessing glad and sweet, On the rock and on the meadow, on the thistle and the wheat? |
60371 | Have you seen the sunlight gleaming on a summer day in June, Spreading broadcast texts of glory, while the birds hozannas tune? |
60371 | Have you watched it bathe the outcast as he lays forlorn asleep? |
60371 | Hear me, O Father; Jesus, hear me pray, Shall there be reckoning, shall Prussia pay? |
60371 | How shall we dream of better things amid these saddened days? |
60371 | How shall we greet Thy Son? |
60371 | In thy cause have I done well? |
60371 | It''s twenty years since the''Ouse of Peers''as seen''i m, and is it right That the people''s will''is kind can kill, and do it all in a night? |
60371 | Lad of my Heart-- do you hear my love calling? |
60371 | Lad of my love-- do you see my tears falling? |
60371 | O soul of mine, yearn not, hope on, nor fear; What though the frail- ribbed skiff wherein thou float''st Sink in the depths unfathomed? |
60371 | O thou April maiden, weaving Spells alluring and deceiving, Wilt thou some day me be leaving? |
60371 | Oh, postman on your daily round, what message do you bring From them who fight in foreign lands for country and for king? |
60371 | One passed you last night at dusk, One whom the world brands with shame; Say, was it then all her fault? |
60371 | Saw he the vast armies of the west engage In strife stupendous, in those days agone, When by the Nile he conquered at Khartoum? |
60371 | Saw he unmoved the vision of his doom? |
60371 | Shall Belgium''s sons, shall this beloved soil, Whose very mould is martial, be made spoil? |
60371 | Sometimes in dreams do you see Visions of dainties high piled? |
60371 | To what refuge do you sail? |
60371 | What of the future and mankind while Christian, Christian slays? |
60371 | What portents shaped the wild sirocco''s rage Where Memnon tunes across the plain at dawn? |
60371 | Where chooseth Greece, while moves the dark intrigue, Where Progress beckons or where despots league? |
60371 | Where do you live--''neath the street, Or attic above the stair? |
60371 | Wherefore the ravage of my little ones? |
60371 | Who dare cry peace where all is strife; Who bid the conflict cease? |
60371 | Who dares to kneel beside the crib which thrones the Prince of Peace? |
60371 | Who shall for these atone? |
60371 | Who thrilled the world? |
60371 | Why hopest thou then by one life''s little span To grasp the mystery of a million suns? |
60371 | Why should I weep in springtime with the long, white winter past? |
60371 | it is the Christmas time, the feast of Him divine; How shall we stand with stained hands, and worship at His shrine? |
41944 | An''did you cross in a comfy way, Or did you have to run? 41944 Do you cross the sea to- night with me?" |
41944 | Doth he repent that we alone Are here to hold the way, That he must reap what he hath sown-- That only valour may atone The fault of yesterday? 41944 What is that, sir? |
41944 | You''re the man to save us now, We look to you to win; Wot''d yer like? 41944 A rise o''pay? 41944 An''is the patch on your hull we see the mark of a bump in''Ninety- three, Or the work of a German gun? |
41944 | And it seems so unavailing They should write and tell us so-- If the Hun is shortly sailing, Could n''t_ some one_ let him know? |
41944 | And they take their affidavy That a fight is due at sea:_ Dammit-- tell the German Navy_, What''s the use of telling me? |
41944 | And those who went away from us and passed from war to peace-- Are they looking still for Fairyland the wide world round? |
41944 | Are the prices high and taxes stiff, is the prospect sad and dark? |
41944 | Did you kill him? |
41944 | Do you feel your troubles around you rise in an endless dreary wall? |
41944 | Has the Nelson spirit in the Fleet begun to cool?" |
41944 | Have you seen your capital dwindle down as low as the German mark? |
41944 | Is it nothing to you that pass us by-- hurrying on your way, Whispering low of peace and rest to the tune of a German song? |
41944 | Is it only in the sunset we may find the Golden Fleece? |
41944 | Is it only to the Westward that the Fairyland is found? |
41944 | My Lords in solemn conclave drew Behind a bolted door, Threshing it out in full debate--"Is it a case for an Acting Rate? |
41944 | Or use of Martial Law?" |
41944 | Peace and Rest? |
41944 | Roaring water or sheets of flame? |
41944 | The Admiral landed Cabré- wise And high the fountains burst--( What is the meaning of Cabré- wise? |
41944 | The end with none to view? |
41944 | The rest you seek? |
41944 | Too proud to fight? |
41944 | WHO CARES? |
41944 | WHO CARES? |
41944 | Was it sudden or slow-- the death that came? |
41944 | We are fighting for the Right and the Honour of the Race With the Bulldog Grip they know; Who''s the silly novice there putting on the pace? |
41944 | What about another rise? |
41944 | What is it to us if the world is mad? |
41944 | What need of that? |
41944 | What''s the good of hurrying? |
41944 | Who''s the brute that hurt you so? |
41944 | Whom do you call your Overlord that dares me in my home?" |
41944 | With a minor matter for the end--"What shall the Council do About this fellow Mackensen? |
41944 | _ Not_ a bit of private trade? |
41944 | _ Not_ as cargo? |
41944 | but how I hate him-- a liar and a fool,--"Where is the British Navy-- is it staying in the harbours? |
41944 | down below there-- d''you know it''s going to blow there, All across the cold North Sea?" |
41944 | for you? |
41944 | you fight for a Christian land, And all Eternity waits for you-- what need of rest till then? |
16632 | Is n''t supper so important that you''ll quit your round of play? 16632 What does his father think and say?" |
16632 | A Father''s Prayer I sometimes wonder when I read the sorrow in his face If I shall wear that look of care when time has marched apace? |
16632 | And I wondered all that evening, as he slumbered in his bed If we''d risen to the meaning of the work that lies ahead? |
16632 | And this is the thing we shall ask of him: to give us the reason why Our boys must fall on his battlefields, but never his boys must die?" |
16632 | And who will do the heavy work the little garden needs? |
16632 | And who will tell the lad of mine the things he wants to know, And take his hand and lead him round the paths we used to go? |
16632 | Are his eyes no longer clear? |
16632 | Are our comforts and our riches in our minds still uppermost? |
16632 | Are we roused to the importance of the danger in our way? |
16632 | Are we thinking still of pleasures as we thought but yesterday? |
16632 | Boring a mountain or bridging a stream, Steel work and real work? |
16632 | Do n''t you want to eat the shortcake mother made for you to- day?" |
16632 | Has he lost his old- time cheer? |
16632 | Has your love so careless grown By the long neglect you''ve shown That you never raise your eye To the symbol that you fly?" |
16632 | Have you kept him, gentle mother? |
16632 | Have you noticed that your flag, Is to- day a wind- blown rag? |
16632 | I said,"A hoard of gold and a few dear friends? |
16632 | If all our finest deeds are done, And all our splendor''s in the past; If there''s no battle to be won, What matter if to- day''s our last? |
16632 | Is he growing weak and flabby who but yesterday was strong? |
16632 | Is he silent, sad and sullen? |
16632 | Is life so sweet that we would live Though nothing back to life we give? |
16632 | Mechanic, banker, lawyer, too, Have you not heard the stirring drum? |
16632 | Must we wait, to see our danger, till the foe is on our coast? |
16632 | Oh, child of a year, do you wonder what here upon earth you shall find? |
16632 | Oh, who will tend the roses now and who will sow the seeds? |
16632 | The Glory of Age"What is the glory of age?" |
16632 | The New Year Come you with dangers to fright us? |
16632 | Time was, his boy was five years old; time was he smiled as I; I wonder what awaits for me when youth has journeyed by? |
16632 | To a Lady Knitting Little woman, hourly sitting, Something for a soldier knitting, What in fancy can you see? |
16632 | What greater news can mothers tell? |
16632 | What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees? |
16632 | What is it, fighting or building you''re needing? |
16632 | What though you can not bear a gun? |
16632 | When shall we sing as we used to do and dance in the old- time way? |
16632 | When the Drums Shall Cease to Beat When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do? |
16632 | When the world is dressed to cheer you Do n''t you feel Him standin''near you? |
16632 | When will happy hearts meet again in the lights of the Christmas tree? |
16632 | When will the holly gleam again and the Christmas candles burn? |
16632 | Why then keep sorrow and doubt in your eyes? |
16632 | Will you not give to her your finest toil? |
16632 | or hazards to try out our souls? |
16632 | shall our flag in dishonor be furled? |
53621 | Cuculain, is it so? |
53621 | What message now hath Hera? |
53621 | ("Fairer than Usna''s youngest son, O, my poor one, what flower- bed holds you? |
53621 | AN OLD PAIN What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew? |
53621 | Ah, I know He will not come, yet if I go How shall I know he did not pass Barefooted in the flowery grass? |
53621 | And Caoilte, the thin man, raised up his head And took her kiss upon his throbbing brow, And where they went away what man has heard? |
53621 | And boots the world Aught for their wisdom? |
53621 | And friend, could I remain unstirred Without a word for such a sorrow? |
53621 | And shall the world now end and the heavens fall? |
53621 | And so our loves are lost, she sighed, And far and wide we seek new treasure, For who on Time or Timeless hills Can live the ills of loveless leisure? |
53621 | And together walk Thro''hills with dimples full of water where White angels rest, and all the dead years talk About the changes of the earth? |
53621 | And when I saw her large blue eyes, What was the pain that went thro''me? |
53621 | But for Beauty unmolested Have you still the sighing olden? |
53621 | But where are all the loves of long ago? |
53621 | But who dare cast One brief hour''s horoscope, whose tunéd ear Makes every sound the music of last year? |
53621 | Friend, have you heard a bird lament When sleet is sent for April weather? |
53621 | From whither brings she back an old delight? |
53621 | Grey days come soon And I am alone; Can you hear my moan Where you rest, Aroon? |
53621 | Have we not met, Lady fair? |
53621 | Have you sighed in wings untravelled For the heights where others view the Bluer widths of heaven, and marvelled At the utmost top of Beauty? |
53621 | How is the morn so gay and fair Without his whistling in its air? |
53621 | How shall I know he did not pass Barefooted in the shining grass? |
53621 | INAMORATA The bees were holding levees in the flowers, Do you remember how each puff of wind Made every wing a hum? |
53621 | LADY FAIR Lady fair, have we not met In our lives elsewhere? |
53621 | Long of memory is Regret, But what Regret has taken flight Through my memory''s silences? |
53621 | MUSIC ON WATER Where does Remembrance weep when we forget? |
53621 | Maeve answered his inquiring look and turned Once more unto her prayer, and yet once more"How do you see them now?" |
53621 | Oh, little twilight ship blown up the tide, Where are the faces laughing in the glow Of morning years, the lost ones scattered wide? |
53621 | Or will you never come, or have you died, And I in anguish have forgotten all? |
53621 | Or, wrecked upon the shores of home, What wave of foam with white enfolds you? |
53621 | Say, can the lark forget the cloud When poppies shroud the seeded furrow? |
53621 | Shall I meet Keats in some wild isle of balm, Dreaming beside a tarn where green and wide Boughs of sweet cinnamon protect the calm Of the dark water? |
53621 | THE COMING POET"Is it far to the town?" |
53621 | THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR"Why do you sorrow, child? |
53621 | Then Artemis spun round to me and said,"Whence come you?" |
53621 | To- morrow will be loud with war, How will I be accounted for? |
53621 | What are we but fairies too, Living but in dreams alone, Or, at the most, but children still, Innocent and overgrown? |
53621 | What do we want with Beauty? |
53621 | What matters hours or æons when''tis gone? |
53621 | What old and wandering dream forgotten long Hobbles back to my mind? |
53621 | What soft moons pull Their moving fragrance? |
53621 | Whose hopes are built up in the door of Past? |
53621 | Why did I think on Southern skies And ships upon the sea? |
53621 | Why do we weep that once we laughed? |
53621 | Will not the thunder hide me if I call, Wrapt in the corner of some distant star The gods have never known? |
53621 | With voice that mourned,"How do you see them now?" |
53621 | You, in the singing dusk, how could you wend The songless way Contentment fleetly wings? |
53621 | and yet Why are we sad that once our hearts were light? |
53621 | little yearning thing, you and I? |
53621 | what shall we do for a heart to prove, Who have known Beauty, and Spring, and Love? |
53621 | what shall we do for a song to sing, Who have known Beauty, and Love, and Spring? |
592 | Friend Chang,I said,"San Francisco sleeps as the dead-- Ended license, lust and play: Why do you iron the night away? |
592 | Pocahontas''body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May-- did she wonder? 592 What will you do to end war for good? |
592 | ''The Craftsman'':"Has America a National Poetry?" |
592 | And do his bauble- bells beyond the clouds Ring out, and shake with mirth the planets bright? |
592 | And do you laugh, when Jim, from Huck apart Gropes through the rain and night with breaking heart? |
592 | And who is here to say us nay? |
592 | And why, until the dawning sun Are flames coming up from the ground? |
592 | But do you laugh when Jim bows down forlorn His babe, his deaf Elizabeth to mourn? |
592 | But who can dodge this genius of the stream, The Mississippi Valley''s laughing dream? |
592 | Can it go on in the absence of its initiators? |
592 | Deep in the ages, long, long ago, I was your sweetheart, there on the sand-- Storm- worn beach of the Chinese land? |
592 | Do you remember, ages after, At last the world we were born to own? |
592 | I had a silvery name, I had a silvery name, I had a silvery name-- do you remember The name you cried beside the tumbling sea?" |
592 | II What marching men of Buffalo Flood the streets in rash crusade? |
592 | In the breezes nod and wheeze? |
592 | Is it his deacon- beard, or old bald pate That makes the band upon his whims to wait? |
592 | O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in your slack disgrace? |
592 | One crow asked the other crow a riddle: The muttering crow Asked the stuttering crow,"Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle? |
592 | Second Section America Watching the War, August, 1914, to April, 1917 Where Is the Real Non- resistant? |
592 | Shall we be as weird as these? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WHAT DID YOU SEE IN PALESTINE? |
592 | WILL YOU BRING YOUR FINE PEACE TO THE NATIONS TODAY?" |
592 | Was it a palace or a barn? |
592 | What landlord, lawyer, voodoo- man has yet A better native right to make men sweat? |
592 | Where are those oddities and capers now That used to"set the table on a roar"? |
592 | Which of our freemen did she greet the first, Seeing him come against the fires accurst? |
592 | While the monster shadows glower and creep, What can be better for man than sleep?" |
592 | Who can surrender till death His words and his works, his house and his lands, His eyes and his heart and his breath? |
592 | Who can surrender to Christ? |
592 | Who can surrender to Christ? |
592 | Who shall end my dream''s confusion? |
592 | Why did they mumble, brood, and stare When the court- players curtsied fair And the Gonzago scene began? |
592 | Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle?" |
592 | Why? |
592 | Will you die for the nations, making them whole? |
592 | Will you stand by the book- case, be nailed to the wood?" |
592 | You were the heir of the yellow throne-- The world was the field of the Chinese man And we were the pride of the Sons of Han? |
592 | does she remember-- in the dust-- in the cool tombs?" |
19358 | Have you a job to- day, sir, to give a working man? 19358 ''Tis His the broken heart to bind, To heal the serpent''s bite, The judge is He of all mankind, And shall He not do right? 19358 A hero''s heart, an honored name, Or coward''s part, and shirker''s shame? 19358 All mine troubles I hardly ca n''t bear, How is tings in de Faderland now? 19358 An open purse, our strength in full, Or painted horse and party pull? 19358 Are the men all fools? 19358 Britty soon vill dey lay down de gun, So I home mit Katrina can shtay? 19358 CHOOSE YE In times like these, each heart decrees A law unto itself; What shall it be for you and me, Self sacrifice or pelf? 19358 Den I say--Dat''s von very hard case; Can tree jacks beat four kings und some ace? |
19358 | Do you tink dat der Kaiser vill care? |
19358 | Dot is vy I so seldom do n''t wrote''Bout some tings dat vill happen to me Since dose shells, vot you call? |
19358 | HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD? |
19358 | Has the world gone crazy? |
19358 | He answered:"Can you plow, sir, or build a load of hay? |
19358 | How much in Freedom''s name? |
19358 | I got kept in at school one day For lessons not half learned, And when dad asked,"Why this delay?" |
19358 | If he gifs you von cheap iron cross, Ven I lose mine own Fritz I ca n''t shpare, Vot vill dat do to make oop mine loss? |
19358 | Is our thinking hazy, Spite of all our schools? |
19358 | Little Tommy Tucker sang for his supper, What did he sing for? |
19358 | Neither king nor kaiser Down in Mexico, Are the people wiser? |
19358 | Our all is in the game: What shall we give that Truth may live? |
19358 | SAMMY April, 1918 Brave Sammy''s a fighter, who said he was slow, That Duffeldorf blighter was running his show? |
19358 | Shall farmers hold their wheat, While children suffer hunger, And workmen walk the street? |
19358 | Shall never feel the Prussian heel, Nor German kultur show? |
19358 | Shall we hoard up our dollars? |
19358 | Shall we our noble heritage, See crumbling down like clay, This goodly age, a blotted page, And neither fight nor pay? |
19358 | Shall we, with path made easy, While others fight and fall, In freedom''s hour of danger Neglect the Empire''s call? |
19358 | Soul unafraid, the prayer of faith, Or heart dismayed at thought of death? |
19358 | Ten thousand prayers in discord rise From church and cloister dim, When will we cease our feeble cries, And trust the world to Him? |
19358 | The awful strife, wounds and disease, Or sordid life of selfish ease? |
19358 | The noble deed, the unmarked grave, Or craven greed our lives to save? |
19358 | The trenches''mud, and trusted word, Or tainted blood, and rusted sword? |
19358 | Tino never whistles, Neither does he sing, Bed of thorns and thistles; Who would be a king? |
19358 | Vat you tink of dis plan, mine dear Fritz, In mine head dat already I get, Dat I take back again Von Tirpitz, Und Herr Teufel in partnership yet? |
19358 | Ven you tinks dis beeg var vill get done? |
19358 | Vot matter for de tings ve done? |
19358 | Vot pisness he mit horse and gun, Dot channel shtream to cross? |
19358 | Vot you tink, Fritz? |
19358 | Where duty leads, what matter creeds, Or what baptismal font, Jean? |
19358 | Where shall we stand that this fair land No Kaiser''s strafe shall know? |
19358 | Which shall we choose, to win or lose? |
19358 | Will the nations get records of glory, Of cowardice, courage or crime, When the sages record the true story, To ring down the decades of time? |
19358 | You never say a word, dad, about this awful fight; Where is your trusty sword, dad? |
19358 | vot is dat I say? |
56037 | Are they masters of your knowing? |
56037 | First floor? 56037 Is n''t there just one wee little baby to come to my face and kiss and buy?" |
56037 | So you would cease to be a man, And be a green tree, if you can, A pine, a beech, an oak? |
56037 | This is why your fingers straining Clutch the thing they shall not hold? |
56037 | Where are the men that marched into the dusk? |
56037 | Who art thou that would be a tree, Least of the weeds that shoot and pass? 56037 --Who would look at a bogey- woman whispering over an empty tray? 56037 A SOLDIER DYINGLad, why are your fingers twitching, What is the thing they strain to hold? |
56037 | And did you fly thro''boyland dells To catch the songs of youthful kings, And fly before the flight of Springs? |
56037 | And sow it in what field for goodliest reaping, From night to shield it and from sins to save? |
56037 | And whither does it go then, And whence does it come forth? |
56037 | Are there boys still dream a dream there, Are the boys''songs sung? |
56037 | Art thou faded, swift? |
56037 | Do the wings and clouds still hover Where my heart sang loud? |
56037 | FIRES OF CHANGE Think you that Athens and Jerusalem Rot in the places where they builded them? |
56037 | Fifth?" |
56037 | Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you lift your singing head? |
56037 | Gathering birds, gathering birds, How shall you sing? |
56037 | Gods of the great wars, Gas- wave and gun, Are ye not happy With the red work done? |
56037 | HAVING FINISHED"JUDE THE OBSCURE"Such purposeless and iron wings Obscure our mortal music quite? |
56037 | Have I not trodden then the ways which thou wouldst have me tread? |
56037 | Have you no eyes, soldier, Keen eyes like me? |
56037 | Have you no feet, soldier, No feet at all? |
56037 | How when the wind goes round your way, How can your trumpets play? |
56037 | I went up to an oak and said,"What shall I do that I might be A beech, an oak, or any tree, With branches leafing from my head?" |
56037 | If you carefully record your emotions, Lyric or Sonnet that haunts your head, Will you revive for me over in Flanders Love stone dead? |
56037 | Ilissus, Ilissus of the plain? |
56037 | Is n''t it seven years, little mother, since you''ve been dead? |
56037 | Is that the whole of you, White lad from England, Is that the soul of you, Dead in Gallipoli? |
56037 | Is the boy''s will broken That went straight along? |
56037 | Lilac, laburnum, gathering birds...? |
56037 | Lilac, lilac, laburnum, Shall not your blossom be fiery red? |
56037 | Lord, he knew not what he did"? |
56037 | MY MOTHER''S PORTRAIT Dost thou turn thine eyes away from me, thy stern and gentle eyes, From the error of my living days, O thou in Death most wise? |
56037 | Now Spring is nipped and hoar, Too callous flowers, why bloom ye more? |
56037 | O soldier, is it hard to lose The first Spring- whisper on the tree, Sun foaming round the love you choose, Whosoever she? |
56037 | O thou in Death most wise, With thy stern and gentle eyes, Then is thy sleep disturbed by doubt, thy coffin by surprise? |
56037 | Once more they come next day,"Where are the men you stole from us away?" |
56037 | Or shall you be gentler far Than a bird or than a star? |
56037 | Second? |
56037 | Shall the ancient spells that bound us, Bind us ever again? |
56037 | Shall we come again with singing Where the plover sings? |
56037 | Shall you bind my throat with cords, Stab me through with swords? |
56037 | Shall you know that I was bound In the noose that choked you round? |
56037 | Shall your eyes that day be mild, Like the Sacrifice, the Child? |
56037 | Such gloom to monstrous gloom outflings The stenches of a churchyard night? |
56037 | The passioned vows I said, The ways which I should tread, So have I quite forgotten these now thou art safely dead? |
56037 | Then was it but a wind of words, the passioned vows I said? |
56037 | They say,"Where are the men you stole from us away? |
56037 | This is the Temple, this the Parthenon The priests of old days laid their hands upon? |
56037 | WHO KNOWS ME? |
56037 | WOUNDED SOLDIERS Have you no arms, soldier? |
56037 | We are no more for God or Sin Than parasites in rotting hair, No different but only in The boundlessness of our despair? |
56037 | What English flower That we cherish shall grow of him? |
56037 | What have I made Of the dead time? |
56037 | What is Athens now? |
56037 | When all the Spring is all a loaded grave, How can your banners wave? |
56037 | Where are the men you took? |
56037 | Where are they now, the laughing lovers whom You heaped in sombre ranks against the gloom?" |
56037 | Where shall I place my soul for most safe keeping From boisterous intention and omnivorous wave? |
56037 | Who knows me? |
56037 | Who knows me? |
56037 | Who knows me? |
56037 | Why does your blood flow thick, enriching A bleak strange place?" |
20072 | An''s''ply you wid fresh meat? 20072 And_ yours_?" |
20072 | Did you know, Karl,she whispered,"That my brother was on that transport-- My only brother-- a soldier-- my only blood? |
20072 | Eating the garbage? 20072 Grin, ye hyenas,"he''ll say as he smokes;"_ I_ ai n''t a frivolous guy--""Thinkin''of all of the pain you caused folks While learnin''to play?" |
20072 | How many hours will it be Before you''re ready? |
20072 | Well? |
20072 | What of it? |
20072 | What of that? |
20072 | Why have I never seen the rose Just as a_ rose_ before? |
20072 | ( Perhaps you have met him? |
20072 | A day that with joy is bubbling-- And dancing adown a world mad- gay? |
20072 | Ai n''t it a sin, Spendin''good hours a- twiddlin''thumbs? |
20072 | And if he does, oh, wo n''t it be A happy day for me? |
20072 | Before they left to go ashore( A crowd had gathered on the quay),"When can you start to work?" |
20072 | Bugler Bill come"out of the Draft"-- D''you s''pose at_ that_ joke he actually laughed? |
20072 | But I wonder if Bill_ would_ lie? |
20072 | Ca n''t you change the stuffing? |
20072 | Den Br''er Fox, he slink away, and bahk like he was sad, An''Br''er Rab, he shake he sides wid laffin''--ain''t he bad? |
20072 | Did we all jump on him? |
20072 | Do you suppose That all these years-- how long, God knows!-- I really have not_ understood_ the rose?" |
20072 | For what the Future holds who knows, or cares? |
20072 | HOW''S THE BOY? |
20072 | He''s nice enough, I s''pose, But what do you think he said to me? |
20072 | His feet are big, his head is small, His German blood is slow, But at the call for volunteers, Why, did n''t Heinie go? |
20072 | How''s the boy?" |
20072 | How''s the boy?" |
20072 | I wonder if you know him? |
20072 | I''ll get a lot of brothers, then, Without_ no_ bother-- see? |
20072 | If Antoinette, dear Antoinette, were simply to suggest That question, do n''t you think that I would quickly do the rest? |
20072 | If it had gone down-- that transport-- been sunk--""Well?" |
20072 | If you was n''t''much of a soldier,''or shirked in your duty-- well, say, What sort of a chance have other men got when tested on Judgment Day? |
20072 | Is it wrong if I cry? |
20072 | It must be right, but somehow I ca n''t look at it that way-- Why should he go, so young and good, and me-- so worn out-- stay? |
20072 | It''s wearin''on the nerves, waitin''round-- for what? |
20072 | NOW-- AND THEN A thousand years from now, how will this earth Conduct itself? |
20072 | Or do you more demand? |
20072 | Or will there be a dearth Of ideas( such as we feel, now and then?) |
20072 | PAID IN ADVANCE What is the cost of a day in Spring-- A wind- swept, rain- washed golden day? |
20072 | Pretending you are blind? |
20072 | Pretty soon he hear a noise-- dat''s Br''er Fox, he know, Gropin''th''ough de quiet woods, out in de cold an''snow;"Is dat you, Br''er Rab?" |
20072 | So-- with a business missive in each hand-- Will three words do? |
20072 | Sometimes I get by with it; and Sometimes she does n''t spoil a film-- Is n''t the public lucky that we did n''t Stick to our callings? |
20072 | Sometimes he''d pull my ears And say,"Hear dat Bob White? |
20072 | THE ALIEN( Of course, this did n''t happen, But if it had-- Would you have been shocked?) |
20072 | THE BOLD LOVER He held her hand, and joy shone in his eyes; The world and all therein to him was fair; What mattered now the gloomy, lowering skies? |
20072 | THE SMALL BOY EXPLAINS Some people say the sky is blue Acause it''s warshed by rains up there; I dunno if''at''s so, do you? |
20072 | The surgeon smiles...."If he can make A capture in the night When doing Red Cross work, what would He do if he should_ fight_?" |
20072 | Then he said,"Well, ai n''t you tired o''ham?" |
20072 | Though your firm white hand Was cut by the reins you had held too long,"Dear Cave- man, I love you,"you said;"is it wrong?" |
20072 | Was that foolish, or brave? |
20072 | We figure fortunes that six hens Will bring us-- if we keep''em penned; And yet, when farmers are the butt Of jokes, who rises to defend? |
20072 | We''re all of us willin'', but why keep us drillin''Forever?... |
20072 | We''re human( Does that seem so strange?) |
20072 | Well, I do n''t care-- I DO-- How could I''MEMBER all these things, unlessen they was true? |
20072 | What''s th''meanin''of the look you see in soldiers''eyes? |
20072 | Will it ever start? |
20072 | Will there be wars, and men Inventing things? |
20072 | You can bet we did:"Who gave you the right to kick, you steer, Over what she brings us? |
20072 | You do n''t believe a word I say? |
20072 | You see this stubby tail of mine? |
20072 | You wo n''t? |
20072 | she asked.... How did she divine That_ I_ am not married?... |
20072 | when he sees me a- limpin''to the Gate, And mebbe( where is my old han''kerchief a- got to now?) |
46427 | --------(_ For a general grave on Vimy Ridge_) You come from England? |
46427 | Ah, what has England done? |
46427 | And in the land they guard so well Is there no silent watch to keep? |
46427 | And pass with the willing and worthy to give Life, that freedom and faith may live? |
46427 | And through the leagues above her She looked, aghast, and said:"What is this living ship that comes Where every ship is dead?" |
46427 | But in what Spartan school of discipline Did you get patience, boy? |
46427 | Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul''s-- Deem ye the fame of the Admiral falls? |
46427 | David 118 What Has England Done? |
46427 | GILBERT MURRAY_ By permission of the Author_ LUSITANIA(_ May 7, 1915_) Who that can strike a blow Now will refrain? |
46427 | Glory sought is Honour lost, How should this be knighthood''s end? |
46427 | Grievous the pain; but, in the day When all the cost is counted o''er, Would it be best that you should say:"We lost no loved ones in the war"? |
46427 | Guns of Metz they grumble,"When?" |
46427 | Hast thou counted up the cost, What to foeman, what to friend? |
46427 | Have you any five- pound notes about you? |
46427 | Have you any of those neat little Treasury one- pound notes? |
46427 | He called out,"Who''s that coming along?" |
46427 | How did you learn to bear this long- drawn pain And not complain? |
46427 | How stem the sweep of the conquering tide? |
46427 | Is she England still? |
46427 | Is this the end of all our woes? |
46427 | JOHN OXENHAM_ By permission of the Author_ WHAT HAS BRITAIN DONE? |
46427 | Know''st thou what is Hatred''s meed? |
46427 | May I say let us keep both eyes? |
46427 | May I tell you, in a simple parable, what I think this war is doing for us? |
46427 | Pry the stone from the chancel floor,-- Dream ye that Shakespeare shall live no more? |
46427 | Restless with throbbing hopes, with thwarted aims, Impulsive as a colt, How do you lie here month by weary month Helpless and not revolt? |
46427 | SIR OWEN SEAMAN EDITH CAVELL(_ October 12, 1915_) Dead? |
46427 | See now, our mother, these are they that clung Once to thy breasts, and are they not well sung?" |
46427 | Shall we not suffer more?" |
46427 | The ghostly vessels trembled From ruined stern to prow; What was this thing of terror That broke their vigil now? |
46427 | The grim_ Titanic_ greeted her--"And who art thou?" |
46427 | WHAT HAS ENGLAND DONE? |
46427 | WHAT OF THE FIGHT? |
46427 | WINSTON CHURCHILL THE DEBT UNPAYABLE What have I given, Bold sailor on the sea, In earth or heaven, That you should die for me? |
46427 | What are they made of? |
46427 | What are they worth? |
46427 | What can I give, O soldier, leal and brave, Long as I live, To pay the life you gave? |
46427 | What harvest might we hope from such a sowing? |
46427 | What has Britain done? |
46427 | What has Britain done? |
46427 | What has Britain done? |
46427 | What has Britain done? |
46427 | What has Britain done? |
46427 | What has England done? |
46427 | What has she done? |
46427 | What is a treaty, says the German Chancellor, but a scrap of paper? |
46427 | What is it to us if the world is mad? |
46427 | What joy can these monotonous days afford Here in a ward? |
46427 | What matter? |
46427 | What noonday from a dawning so complete? |
46427 | What of the fight? |
46427 | What of the fight? |
46427 | What of the men of the furrow, men of the hammer and spade, Men without heart for the soldier, loathing his life and his trade? |
46427 | What the surest gain of Greed? |
46427 | What tithe or part Can I return to thee, O stricken heart, That thou shouldst break for me? |
46427 | What? |
46427 | When the reply was,"General Currie", he said,"Are the Canadians coming down here?" |
46427 | Where else in the whole world can such conditions be paralleled? |
46427 | Where is the giant shot that kills Wordsworth walking the old green hills? |
46427 | Where is the ideal of the Germany of to- day? |
46427 | Who can have any ease Now while they live? |
46427 | Who dies if England live? |
46427 | Who knows? |
46427 | Who stands if freedom fall? |
46427 | Who that can strike a blow Now will refrain? |
46427 | Who that has prayed for peace Now will forgive? |
46427 | Who with the right to go Now will remain? |
46427 | Who with the right to go Now will remain? |
46427 | Who? |
46427 | Why is our honour as a country involved in this war? |
46427 | Why? |
46427 | Winston 16 What of the Fight? |
46427 | With the world in the balance, what shall decide? |
46427 | You ask what she has done? |
46427 | Your feet were bleeding as You walked our pavements-- How_ did_ we miss Your Footprints on our pavements?-- Can there be other folk as blind as we? |
46427 | _ Punishment?_ What punishment could fit so foul a crime? |
46427 | _ Punishment?_ What punishment could fit so foul a crime? |
46427 | she said;"Why dost thou join our ghostly fleet Arrayed in living red? |
46427 | whither have we fled, my son? |
46427 | wilt thou dare to- night Pray that God defend the Right? |
39614 | Art from Lancashire, melad? |
39614 | Birds and butterflies and trees, And the long hush of the breeze Shimmering over the silken grass, What wouldst thou have more than these?... 39614 How to comfort you, Share any part? |
39614 | O baby, are thine eyelids closed Faster than my eyes supposed? 39614 Well, wot say?" |
39614 | What glows gold taller than earthly tree In that maze of mast on mast Of the scaffolding? 39614 Who''s hit?" |
39614 | ''Nay, can thine eye catch but one?'' |
39614 | A thief? |
39614 | And bear alone thy cross also Anigh to the foot of a bare hill? |
39614 | And the proud, morning Centaur, how Fares he? |
39614 | And to thrust against thy will Through thy mother''s bosom the sharpest sword? |
39614 | Anger._ Creep I now close....( Has he not heard Ever the lamb cry as the bird Descends upon its helpless head To pluck its eyes out? |
39614 | Be bolder: Light you now upon my shoulder.... Cooroo? |
39614 | Blank with dread Did he ne''er press in stumbling haste Over the wide moor''s tossing waste? |
39614 | Can it be, Daisies innocent and good, That ye star black Calvary? |
39614 | Can not Pan a shrewd watch keep O''er his own? |
39614 | Can they have seen The Centaur hurtle by between Them and the clouds? |
39614 | Cooroo in my ear? |
39614 | DANAË MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS DANAË: MYSTERY IN EIGHT POEMS I"What with clangour, clangour of iron din, Do they beat till daylight ring? |
39614 | Deignest thou, then, to race with me From such tall eyries to the sea, If even now I upward leap? |
39614 | Draws he nigher? |
39614 | Eye- of- fire, sweet Snowy- wings, Think you that you can discover On what great green down my lover Lies by his sunny sheep and sings? |
39614 | Flutter!--where''s my song? |
39614 | For am not I a goat? |
39614 | For what is my heart so aching? |
39614 | From this blaze of light Do I plunge suddenly Into Vortex? |
39614 | Hath not he in the forum room To vent himself, that now with rude Rabble he scareth Solitude From her ultimate hiding- place? |
39614 | Hear''Trumpeter, what are you sounding?'' |
39614 | His men Whispered:"Where''s Mister Gates?" |
39614 | Honour it is that calls: canst thou forget Once thou wert strong? |
39614 | I wander on, I fade in mist, O peopled World, and dost thou list? |
39614 | I''ve a love... the sun''s shining And where''s the man would be dead?" |
39614 | II"What art mooning at, fool? |
39614 | II.--THE PAST How to escape the bondage of the past? |
39614 | Is death so near, then? |
39614 | Is it I sleep? |
39614 | Is it home? |
39614 | Is it love? |
39614 | Is it sleep? |
39614 | Is it sudden terror Burdens my heart? |
39614 | Is it tears? |
39614 | It was hard Not to see them: Wilkinson, stubby, grim, With his"No, sir,""Yes, sir,"and the slim Simpson:"Indeed, sir?" |
39614 | Jewels wouldst thou, then, O bird? |
39614 | Let it burn, then, left and right:"Where, O where, is Punchinello? |
39614 | Lets no one ever see her back?'' |
39614 | Long I look on the deepening sky, The chill star, the forlorn sea breaking; For what does my spirit cry? |
39614 | Must I fare, then, in fear and fever On a journey become thrice far-- Whose sun has gone down for ever, Whose night brings no guiding star? |
39614 | Night? |
39614 | None for wee Amoret? |
39614 | One Day, or maybe one Night-- Living? |
39614 | Or, stripped to plunge, did never eye The sunned pool smiling treacherously, Despair and terror in his heart? |
39614 | Pull the bell: is she within? |
39614 | Rose, to be torn in sunder so? |
39614 | Scaramouch too, that gay fellow? |
39614 | Sing I? |
39614 | Sleeps the newly- buried clay Or doth divinity trouble it to live alway? |
39614 | So on, beating, to her street: What sight Pierrot''s eyes doth greet? |
39614 | Some wanton boy and his limbs? |
39614 | Start: How''s time? |
39614 | Surging of relief and joy: Welcome then? |
39614 | That stirs an ancient tenderness, A new need to console, love, bless All things that''neath this warm night sky Rejoice and suffer, age and die? |
39614 | Then stride I? |
39614 | Then,"Is the doctor here?" |
39614 | They heard him moan"Why for me?" |
39614 | Time goes quick; A stumbled prayer... somehow a blazing star In a blue night... where? |
39614 | To hang gibbeted and abhorred, For passers- by to wish thee ill? |
39614 | V.--AT THE WARS Now that I am ta''en away, And may not see another day, What is it to my eye appears? |
39614 | Was there grief once? |
39614 | Was there grief once? |
39614 | Was there love once? |
39614 | What can it be They build so secret and fast?" |
39614 | What heat, that I see the night air spin, And sparks dance over the scaffolding? |
39614 | What is''t, bird, thy soul demands? |
39614 | What joy is mine? |
39614 | What need of comfort has the heroic soul? |
39614 | What soldier finds a soldier''s grave is chill? |
39614 | What sound rings in my stricken ears? |
39614 | Wherefore, baby, must thou go? |
39614 | Wherefore, since the gods agree, Youth is sweet and Night is free, And Love pleasure, should not we? |
39614 | Who now sings The noon''s and his own tristfulness? |
39614 | With eyes grieving on space, Has she sight among all these blind? |
39614 | With foxes must thy bed be maken, A beggar with beggars must thou go, To be at last forsworn, forsaken? |
39614 | XI.--FULFILMENT Was there love once? |
39614 | _ Faun._ Shall not I Echo thy pain, whom Fates deny Answer to thought,--as they to thee The lust- of- action''s fill? |
39614 | _ Of the Faun''s Wake I? |
39614 | amid the woodland green_ Of the What mantles of strange blue are seen? |
39614 | and what''s it all about? |
39614 | is he a man_ The Faun''s So dares affront the great god Pan? |
39614 | out of the Night, O Friends: O all my dead, think ye our friendship ends? |
39614 | past words unsaid? |
39614 | what festive cries are they_ Of the Which greet me as I top the mound? |
39614 | what is''t I have: Immortal life? |
39614 | what voice is this can make The vagrant heart within me ache? |
39614 | where the sunlight lies Here scalding gold, and yonder dies Into a humid, still, green gloom? |
39614 | who is''t that shakes The night with fervour? |
39614 | why took you not my life instead? |
39614 | wot''s up?" |
27126 | _ After?_... For thee may be no after! |
27126 | _ Dear heart, for this end I did live, To this end did I die._And if I fall away again, And bring Thy Love to shame? |
27126 | _ I''ll find thee out where''er thou art, And still thy love will claim._All this for me, whose constant lack Doth cause Thee constant pain? |
27126 | _ It was to win thee back from them I wore the crown of thorn._And, spite of all, Thou canst forgive, And still attend my cry? |
27126 | _ My fodder_? 27126 _ Rest of the weary, joy of the sad._"TO THIS END And hast Thou help for such as me, Sin- weary, stained, forlorn? |
27126 | _ With one soft kiss I will restore your sight._And Thou wilt do all this for me?--for me? |
27126 | _ Yea then,--if not for such as thee To what end was I born?_But I have strayed so far away, So oft forgotten Thee. |
27126 | ( A WARNING)"_ Am I my brother''s keeper_?" |
27126 | --Such a day of vast upsettings, Dire outcastings and downsettings!-- You have held the reins too long,-- Have you time to heal the wrong? |
27126 | --That thought of self had held in thrall His soul, and shrunk it mean and small? |
27126 | --You ask what''s amiss when your destinies Hang by a thread in the great abyss? |
27126 | --he groaned, through a lump of chewed grass,"_ Are_ they treasures? |
27126 | .............................. WHAT? |
27126 | ..._ Then bid Me to the Board!_"*****_ Can we not rise to such great height of glory? |
27126 | 1916 Where are all the_ young_ men? |
27126 | An''it done them good, an''it done me good, So what''s the odds if I does go lean, For a day or two, till the nibs comes in? |
27126 | And I said to myself,--"What if those should dare To claim from these others their rightful share?" |
27126 | Are our faces grave, and our eyes intent? |
27126 | Are our hands clean? |
27126 | Are our souls free from blame For this world- tragedy? |
27126 | Are we to be like all the rest, Or climb we loftier height? |
27126 | Are ye not both,--both thou and he Of God''s great family? |
27126 | Are you broken, heart- sick, weary? |
27126 | Are you there? |
27126 | Are you there? |
27126 | CHRIST AT THE BAR MY BROTHER''S KEEPER? |
27126 | Ca n''t you feel them in the air? |
27126 | Ca n''t you see the signs and portents? |
27126 | Ca n''t you see,--you unbeliever? |
27126 | Can we our wayward steps arrest?-- All life with nobler life invest?-- And so fulfil our Lord''s behest? |
27126 | Can you wonder?--Can you wonder, That_ we_ wondered, As we heard the huns''guns thunder? |
27126 | Do you dread each dark to- morrow? |
27126 | Dost nothing owe to him who shares Thy couch, and suffers by thy cares? |
27126 | For if not-- who? |
27126 | Got that? |
27126 | Hopeless?--Friendless?--No one caring? |
27126 | How can the Lord Christ come again? |
27126 | How of our sorrows build anew to Thee? |
27126 | How rid thee of thy soul''s responsibility? |
27126 | How shall we start, Lord, to build life again, Fairer and sweeter, and freed from its pain? |
27126 | How shall we turn to good this weight of ill? |
27126 | I said,"O most gentle and innocent beast, Say,--why is your burden so greatly increased? |
27126 | IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? |
27126 | Is He not surely fled For ever from a world where He Is still so buffeted?_"But the day''s glory all forbade Such depth of woe. |
27126 | Is every ounce that is in us bent On the uttermost pitch of accomplishment? |
27126 | Is it all your own treasures you have in your pack, That crumples your backbone and makes your ribs crack? |
27126 | Is it done for a purpose, or just out of spite? |
27126 | Is life worth living? |
27126 | Is the burden past your bearing? |
27126 | Is the faint heart ever quailing? |
27126 | Is the future black with sorrow? |
27126 | Is the light fur ever failing? |
27126 | Is the pathway dark and dreary? |
27126 | LONELY BROTHER Art thou lonely, O my brother? |
27126 | Let each man tax his soul and say,--"Shall I again my Lord betray For my greed, or my goods, or my gold?" |
27126 | MY BROTHER''S KEEPER? |
27126 | Nay,--will He come again? |
27126 | POLICEMAN X"Shall it be Peace? |
27126 | ROSEMARY EASTER SUNDAY, 1916 THE CHILD OF THE MAID WASTED? |
27126 | S. ELIZABETH''S LEPER VOX CLAMANTIS FLORA''S BIT RED BREAST OUR HEARTS FOR YOU THE BURDENED ASS WINNERS OR LOSERS? |
27126 | Shall this vast sorrow spend itself in vain? |
27126 | So curly, curly sweet!-- How will it be with you, dears, When all your work''s complete? |
27126 | So why cloud to- day With fear of the sorrow, That may or may not Come to- morrow? |
27126 | Soul, dost thou fear For to- day or to- morrow? |
27126 | THE WAR- MAKERS_ Who are the Makers of Wars?_ The Kings of the earth. |
27126 | That we looked in one another''s eyes And wondered,--"_ Is Christ indeed then risen from the dead? |
27126 | That you? |
27126 | Those others saw his plight, and laughed and jeered, And, at each helper''s fall, laughed more, and cheered;--God''s sons? |
27126 | WASTED? |
27126 | WHAT OF THE NIGHT? |
27126 | WHAT OF THE NIGHT? |
27126 | WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TO- NIGHT, MY LAD? |
27126 | WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TO- NIGHT, MY LAD? |
27126 | WINNERS OR LOSERS? |
27126 | Was there ever, since ever the world was made, Such a horrible trade for a peace- loving maid, And such wonderful, terrible spinning? |
27126 | What has become of the_ young_ men? |
27126 | What of the night? |
27126 | What room is left us then for doubt or fear? |
27126 | What''s amiss?_ Man alive! |
27126 | What? |
27126 | Whence come you? |
27126 | Where are you sleeping to- night, My Lad, Above- ground-- or below? |
27126 | Where go you? |
27126 | Who loads you like this, beyond reason and right? |
27126 | Why do you delay?" |
27126 | Would you wish that he had stayed, When all the rest The Call obeyed? |
27126 | You hear it? |
27126 | _ And Wisdom?--does that come by birth?_ Nay then-- too often the reverse. |
27126 | _ And who are these Kings of the earth?_ Only men-- not always even men of worth, But claiming rule by right of birth. |
27126 | _ The wires humming?_ No, my friend, it is_ not_! |
27126 | _ Thy brother''s keeper_? |
27126 | _ What trouble?_ Every trouble,--everywhere, Every wildest kind of nightmare That has ridden you is there, In the air. |
27126 | _ What''s amiss? |
27126 | _ What''s wrong? |
27126 | _ What''s wrong?_ Listen here!-- Do you catch a sound like drumming?-- Far- away and distant drumming? |
27126 | _ What''s wrong?_ Listen here!-- Do you catch a sound like drumming?-- Far- away and distant drumming? |
27126 | _ Where?_ Ah-- that''s beyond me!-- But it lies with those who dare To think of big To- morrows, And intend to have their share. |
27126 | _ Where?_ In the air. |
315 | And whit did she send ye? |
315 | They''re baith sairly woundit, but is it no droll Hoo they rave aboot haggis? |
315 | Well, wot abaht it, lad? |
315 | What is the matter, Young Fellow My Lad? 315 Why do n''t you write, Young Fellow My Lad? |
315 | ''E AIN''T''ARF PRIME._"Young Fellow My Lad"Where are you going, Young Fellow My Lad, On this glittering morn of May?" |
315 | ''OW LONG,''OW LONG?_ Wounded Is it not strange? |
315 | ''OW LONG,''OW LONG?_ Wounded Is it not strange? |
315 | ''Oo''s that singin''so''earty? |
315 | ( Will you pass me the sugar, old chap? |
315 | )_ Fleurette( The Wounded Canadian Speaks) My leg? |
315 | Ai n''t War just''ell? |
315 | Ai n''t''e a bit of the real all right? |
315 | All morning I heard him fret:"Oh, when will she come, Fleurette?" |
315 | And shall I miss the biggest? |
315 | And what are pouting lips for if they ca n''t be kissed? |
315 | And''e says:"Wot d''ye think of it, Lizer Ann?" |
315 | Are ye hurtit?" |
315 | Are ye woundit?" |
315 | Ay, wot the''ell''s the use of all this talk? |
315 | By the cheers of our Victory will the heart of the mother be comforted? |
315 | Ca n''t I believe my eyes? |
315 | Can you wonder now I am gay? |
315 | D''ye think he''d listen? |
315 | Dead? |
315 | Did I give it''i m? |
315 | Did you say: Put you down? |
315 | Do I finish my little job? |
315 | Do I miss it? |
315 | Fight for the right to slave that they may spend, Them in their mansions, me''ere in my slum? |
315 | For a while they were silent; then up once again Spoke Private McPhee, though he whussilt wi''pain:"And why should we miss it? |
315 | God, ca n''t You hear my cry? |
315 | God, will it never have done? |
315 | Have n''t you a tear for them Going out so gallantly to dare and die? |
315 | Have you any children?" |
315 | Here in the hellish glare Why must I suffer so? |
315 | I could only stare, I was taken so by surprise, When gently she bent her head:"May I kiss you, Sergeant?" |
315 | I stares like a man wot''s stuck, For wot do I see? |
315 | I wonder, Bill, if''Ans and Fritz is wonderin''like me Wot''s at the bottom of it all? |
315 | I''m goin''''ome to Blighty: can you wonder as I''m gay? |
315 | Is it Eddy or me Wot''s a- bleedin''so free? |
315 | Is it God does n''t care? |
315 | Is it God does n''t know? |
315 | John tried his grief to drown; To- day James owns one- half the town; His army contracts riches yield; And John? |
315 | Lor, yus;_ DON''T_ they look glad? |
315 | Mine? |
315 | My man? |
315 | No trumps you make it, I think you said? |
315 | Now he''s finished with,--nothing to show: Does n''t it seem a shame? |
315 | Now war is a funny thing, ai n''t it? |
315 | Now what would you do? |
315 | Now wot I wants to know is, why it was n''t me was took? |
315 | Oh blimy, it''s a shame!_ A- singin''"''Oo''s Yer Lady Friend?" |
315 | Oh, it''s:"Sandy, ma lad, will you lilt us a tune?" |
315 | Oh, mother dear, I''m wondering can God be here? |
315 | Old pal, it''s all right; It''s a''ell of a fight, But are we down-''earted? |
315 | Or is it that you try to show Life still is joy and all is well? |
315 | Picters, statoos, is that why You should be let off to die? |
315 | Quick''e throws''is''ands above''is nob; Speakin''English good as me:"''Tain''t no use to kill,"says''e;"Ca n''t yer tyke me prisoner instead?" |
315 | Sez I: My Country? |
315 | Show you mercy? |
315 | So when the war broke out, sez''e:"Well, wot abaht it, Joe?" |
315 | Some high hymn of Motherland? |
315 | Some immortal chanson of their Faith and King? |
315 | That the best ye done? |
315 | The Coward''Ave you seen Bill''s mug in the Noos to- day? |
315 | The Volunteer Sez I: My Country calls? |
315 | The only thing I''m wondering is when Some stretcher- men will stroll along my way? |
315 | The rustle of grass, or the passing quiver Of one of the ghosts of No Man''s Land? |
315 | Them politicians with their greasy ways; Them empire- grabbers-- fight for''em? |
315 | Then I stumbled on one of their dug- outs, and I shouted:"Is anyone there?" |
315 | Then down the lake came Half- breed Tom with russet sail a- flying, And the word he said was"War"again, so what was I to do? |
315 | Then sudden he stoppit:"Man, wis it no grand Hoo we took a''them trenches?" |
315 | Then:"Will you surrender?" |
315 | They''re up to somethin''--''oo''ll volunteer To crawl in the dark and see?'' |
315 | Think ye our glory and gain will pay for the torrent of blood we have shed? |
315 | WON''T you take me in? |
315 | Was I killed, do you ask? |
315 | Was I weepin''for Missis Moriarty? |
315 | Was it just the shiver Of an eerie wind or a clammy hand? |
315 | We''re only beginning to find ourselves; we''re wonders of brawn and thew; But when we go back to our Sissy jobs,--oh, what are we going to do? |
315 | What has happened since then, Since I lay with my face to the wall, The most despairing of men? |
315 | What is it they''re singing so? |
315 | What strange spell is over me? |
315 | What was I saying? |
315 | What was that? |
315 | What was that? |
315 | What''s the use of tearing him loose under a gruelling fire, When he''s shot in the head, and worse than dead, and all messed up on the wire? |
315 | Where is all my vengeful joy? |
315 | Who am I staring slap in the face? |
315 | Who is that''malheureux''?" |
315 | Why Do I pray for him to die? |
315 | Why am I sittin''''ere Gazin''with mournful vision at a mug long empty of beer? |
315 | Why am I so silent? |
315 | Why did the postman look so sad, And sigh as he turned away? |
315 | Why do I not shout with glee? |
315 | Why have_ YOU_ come here alone, To this hearth''s blood- spattered stone? |
315 | Will Glory o''England ever die So long as we''ve lads like him? |
315 | Wot all the slaughter''s for? |
315 | Wot did I do? |
315 | Wot price the little bookay?" |
315 | Wot the''ell? |
315 | Wot the''ell? |
315 | Wot the''ell? |
315 | Wot was it jabbed at me shoulder? |
315 | Yet may it not be, crime and war But effort misdirected are? |
315 | Yet the thought comes thrilling through all my pain: how worthier could he die? |
315 | You make it yourself, do you not?) |
315 | You''ll wake up and''ear yourself sayin'':''Would you like, sir, to''ave a shampoo?'' |
315 | _ A DECENT JOB IN DYIN''._ The Song of the Pacifist What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll of our Dead? |
315 | ai n''t''e a man?" |
315 | do you not know That we are making earth a hell? |
315 | wo n''t Bill be glad When''e stares through the bleedin''clods and sees the blossoms of Jim and me? |
315 | wot the''ell, Bill? |
315 | wot the''ell, Bill? |
315 | wot the''ell, Bill? |
8820 | There is dust in my eyes, for I can not see,-- Is that my Michel to the right of thee, Soldier of France? |
8820 | ''T was more than I could compass, For how was I to think With such infernal rumpus In such a blasted stink? |
8820 | All morning I heard him fret:"Oh, when will she come, Fleurette?" |
8820 | And how shall I repay? |
8820 | And in the land they guard so well Is there no silent watch to keep? |
8820 | And shall my wreath return to dust? |
8820 | And they who lead, who hold the van? |
8820 | And what makes she, I wonder, Of the horror and the blood, And what''s her luck, to sunder The evil from the good? |
8820 | And what was the next thing that she required? |
8820 | And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again? |
8820 | And,"What do you call it?" |
8820 | Art thou no more, O Maiden Heaven- born O Peace, bright Angel of the windless morn? |
8820 | Blood on the sword, our eyes blood- red, Blind in our puny reign of power, Do we forget how soon is sped Our little hour? |
8820 | Brave souls... but who remembers The flame that fired your embers?... |
8820 | But in what Spartan school of discipline Did you get patience, boy? |
8820 | But what would you have? |
8820 | But when can me or my mates forget, When the Guards came through? |
8820 | Can much pondering so hoodwink you? |
8820 | Can you wonder now I am gay? |
8820 | Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul''s-- Deem ye the fame of the Admiral falls? |
8820 | Do I miss it? |
8820 | For_ she_, was_ she_ not dear? |
8820 | Fresh from the trenches and gray with grime, Silent they march like a pantomime;"But what need of music? |
8820 | Ghosts do not say,"Come, what was your record when you drew breath?" |
8820 | Guns of Metz they grumble,"When?" |
8820 | Has your last word of sophistry been said, O cult of slaves? |
8820 | He Who has given them-- are they not His? |
8820 | He whistles down the day- long road, And, when the chilly shadows fall And heavier hangs the weary load, Is he down- hearted? |
8820 | Heard ye the trumpet sound? |
8820 | His face?-- His hands? |
8820 | How did you learn to bear this long- drawn pain And not complain? |
8820 | How does he escape them? |
8820 | How long will the others dream and stare? |
8820 | How should I pay for one poor graven steeple Whereon you shattered what you shall not know? |
8820 | How should I pay you everything you owe? |
8820 | How should I pay you, miserable people? |
8820 | How should we kneel, in this dread hour? |
8820 | How should we seek to Thee for power Who scorned Thee yesterday? |
8820 | I could only stare, I was taken so by surprise, When gently she bent her head:"_ May I kiss you, sergeant?_"she said. |
8820 | Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend with the musing eye Who watch us stepping by, With doubt and dolorous sigh? |
8820 | Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend with the musing eye? |
8820 | Kaiser, face a question new-- This-- does God approve of you? |
8820 | Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing Stetson and the New York_ Tribune_:--"_Qui Vive_?" |
8820 | Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly In the wilful sea- bird''s track, Would I hurry on, with a homesick cry-- Or hasten back? |
8820 | Oh, then where is he? |
8820 | Pry the stone from the chancel floor,-- Dream ye that Shakespeare shall live no more? |
8820 | Regret? |
8820 | Restless with throbbing hopes, with thwarted aims, Impulsive as a colt, How do you lie here month by weary month Helpless, and not revolt? |
8820 | Rudyard Kipling_ MARE LIBERUM You dare to say with perjured lips,"We fight to make the ocean free"? |
8820 | Shall I ever smile or feel again? |
8820 | She had to ask,"What was it, dear?" |
8820 | She had to look-- to ask,"What was it, dear?" |
8820 | THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: What guff are you giving us, Captain? |
8820 | The fool hath said...._ And we, who deemed him wise, We who believed that Thou wast dead, How should we seek Thine eyes? |
8820 | The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves-- How can it have the heart to sway Over the graves, New graves? |
8820 | The sun turns north, the days grow long, Later the evening star grows bright-- How can the daylight linger on For men to fight, Still fight? |
8820 | Though I forgave, would any man forget? |
8820 | Though the dividing sea My leg? |
8820 | Under the boughs where lovers walked The apple- blooms will shed their breath-- But what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death? |
8820 | Unhappy, can I give you back your honour? |
8820 | Was n''t she glad now? |
8820 | Was there grief once? |
8820 | Was there grief once? |
8820 | Was there love once? |
8820 | We can but give our tears-- Ye dead men, who shall bring you Fame in the coming years? |
8820 | We have not lived in hate What have I given What is the gift we have given thee, Sister? |
8820 | What approaches there? |
8820 | What are the bounds of No Man''s Land? |
8820 | What can I give, O soldier, leal and brave, Long as I live, To pay the life you gave? |
8820 | What canst thou do but bow to me and kneel?" |
8820 | What for all time will the harvest be, Sister? |
8820 | What is the price of that dead man they brought me? |
8820 | What is the price of that red spark that caught me From a kind farm that never had a name? |
8820 | What is the trust we have laid in thy hand? |
8820 | What joy can these monotonous days afford Here in a ward? |
8820 | What matter? |
8820 | What new- wing''d world, or mangled god still- born? |
8820 | What of the faith and fire within us What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible? |
8820 | What richly moves, what lightly stirs, Like a noble lady in a dance, When all men''s eyes are in love with hers And needs must follow? |
8820 | What song shall be worthy to sing of them-- Braver than the brave? |
8820 | What sound the ear dismays, Mine Italy, mine Italy? |
8820 | What soundless tumult, what breath in the air Takes the breath in the throat, the blood from the heart? |
8820 | What tithe or part Can I return to thee, O stricken heart, That thou shouldst break for me? |
8820 | What was joy? |
8820 | What was pain? |
8820 | What whispers, thrills, exults up there? |
8820 | What will spring up from the seed that is sown? |
8820 | When we have bled at every pore, Shall we still strive for gear and store? |
8820 | Where are her sons who waged at cricket Warfare against the foeman- friend? |
8820 | Where are the teams of last December? |
8820 | Where do those strong young feet now stand? |
8820 | Where is the giant shot that kills Wordsworth walking the old green hills? |
8820 | Who called? |
8820 | Who dies if England live? |
8820 | Who is that_ malheureux_?" |
8820 | Who moves-- what stirs in the startled air? |
8820 | Who stands if freedom fall? |
8820 | Will he live-- will he last-- will he make it? |
8820 | Will it be Heaven? |
8820 | Will it be Hell, When there is Peace? |
8820 | Will it ever peal again? |
8820 | Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep? |
8820 | Yet Pity whispered,"Why?" |
8820 | You have heard? |
8820 | You have heard? |
8820 | _ Florence Earle Coates_ TO FRANCE What is the gift we have given thee, Sister? |
8820 | _ Frederick George Scott__ In a Field near Ypres__ April, 1915_ TO OUR FALLEN Ye sleepers, who will sing you? |
8820 | _ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there? |
8820 | _ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there? |
8820 | _ Frederick George Scott__ QUI VIVE?__ Qui vive?_ Who passes by up there? |
8820 | _ Herbert Asquith__ 1915_ THE DEBT UNPAYABLE What have I given, Bold sailor on the sea, In earth or heaven, That you should die for me? |
8820 | _ Qui vive?_ Who comes? |
8820 | _ Qui vive?_ Who comes? |
8820 | _ Qui vive?_"The Flags of France." |
8820 | _ Robert Ernest Vernède_ FULFILMENT Was there love once? |
8820 | _ Robert Haven Schauffler_ FLEURETTE THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS: My leg? |
8820 | _ Who_ comes? |
8820 | _"Qui vive? |