Poems

Happiness Ever again to breathe pure happiness, So happy that we gave away our toy? We smiled at nothings, needing no caress? Have we not laughed […]

Has Your Soul Sipped? Has your soul sipped Of the sweetness of all sweets? Has it well supped But yet hungers and sweats? I have been […]

Hospital Barge at Cerisy Budging the sluggard ripples of the Somme, A barge round old Cérisy slowly slewed. Softly her engines down the current screwed, And […]

Insensibility I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers Or makes their feet Sore […]

Inspection ‘You! What d’you mean by this?’ I rapped. ‘You dare come on parade like this?’ ‘Please, sir, it’s-‘ ”Old yer mouth,’ the sergeant snapped. ‘I […]

Le Christianisme So the church Christ was hit and buried Under its rubbish and its rubble. In cellars, packed-up saints long serried, Well out of hearing […]

Maundy Thursday Between the brown hands of a server-lad The silver cross was offered to be kissed. The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, And […]

Mental Cases Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jays that slob their relish, Baring teeth […]

Miners There was a whispering in my hearth, A sigh of the coal. Grown wistful of a former earth It might recall. I listened for a […]

Music I have been urged by earnest violins And drunk their mellow sorrows to the slake Of all my sorrows and my thirsting sins. My heart […]