Poems

Amphion MY father left a park to me, But it is wild and barren, A garden too with scarce a tree, And waster than a warren: […]

Ask Me No More Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea; The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape, With fold […]

Audley Court ‘The Bull, the Fleece are cramm’d, and not a room For love or money. Let us picnic there At Audley Court.’ I spoke, while […]

‘And ask ye why these sad tears stream?’ ‘And ask ye why these sad tears stream?’ ‘Te somnia nostra reducunt.’ OVID. And ask ye why these […]

Balin and Balan Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered tributary, failed of […]

Battle Of Brunanburgh Athelstan King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory in battle, Slew […]

Beautiful City Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, How often […]

Blow, Bugle, Blow THE splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract […]

Boadicea While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess, Far in the East […]

Break, break, break Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in […]