There’s a Regret
There’s a Regret There’s a regret So grinding, so immitigably sad, Remorse thereby feels tolerant, even glad. … Do you not know it yet? For deeds […]
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To My Mother Chiming a dream by the way With ocean’s rapture and roar, I met a maiden to-day Walking alone on the shore: Walking in […]
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To My Wife Take, dear, my little sheaf of songs, For, old or new, All that is good in them belongs Only to you; And, singing […]
READ MOREV: Operation
V: Operation You are carried in a basket, Like a carcase from the shambles, To the theatre, a cockpit Where they stretch you on a table. […]
READ MOREVI: After
VI: After Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke, So through the anaesthetic shows my life; So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife With […]
READ MOREVII: Vigil
VII: Vigil Lived on one’s back, In the long hours of repose, Life is a practical nightmare – Hideous asleep or awake. Shoulders and loins Ache— […]
READ MOREVIII: Staff Nurse:Old Style
VIII: Staff Nurse:Old Style The greater masters of the commonplace, REMBRANDT and good SIR WALTER–only these Could paint her all to you: experienced ease And antique […]
READ MOREVillon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves “Tout aux tavernes et aux filles.” Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a […]
READ MOREWe Shall Surely Die…..
We Shall Surely Die….. We shall surely die: Must we needs grow old? Grow old and cold, And we know not why? O, the By-and-By, And […]
READ MOREWhen you are old…..
When you are old….. When you are old, and I am passed away – Passed, and your face, your golden face is gray – I think, […]
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