Poems

Valenciennes We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, And from our mortars tons of iron hummed Ath’art the ditch, the month we bombed The Town o’ Valencieën. […]

Weathers This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale […]

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my […]

Zermatt to the Matterhorn. Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, And […]

[Greek Title] Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, O Willer masked and dumb! Who makest Life become, – As though by labouring all-unknowingly, Like […]

Hymn To Diana HAIL, beauteous Dian, queen of shades, That dwells beneath these shadowy glades, Mistress of all those beauteous maids That are by her allowed. […]

Martin Song PACK, clouds, away! and welcome, day! With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft To give my Love good-morrow! Wings […]

Praise Of Ceres WITH fair Ceres, Queen of Grain, The reaped fields we roam, roam, roam: Each country peasant, nymph, and swain, Sing their harvest home, […]

Prologue I COME but as a harbinger, being sent To tell you what these preparations mean. Look for no glorious state; our Muse is bent Upon […]

The Message YE little birds that sit and sing Amidst the shady valleys, And see how Phillis sweetly walks Within her garden-alleys; Go, pretty birds, about […]