The Wild Knight and Other Poems

Коллекция текстов · poetry

Note · By the Babe Unborn · The World's Lover
Note My thanks are due to the Editors of the Outlook and the Speaker for the kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable n…
The Skeleton · A Chord of Colour · The Happy Man
The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell…
The Unpardonable Sin · A Novelty · Ultimate
The Unpardonable Sin I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. Silence and strength, these two at least are good. He gave me sun and stars and…
The Donkey · The Beatific Vision · The Hope of the Streets
The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born; With m…
Ecclesiastes · The Song of the Children · The Fish
Ecclesiastes There is one sin: to call a green leaf grey, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth. There is one blasphemy: for death to pray,…
Gold Leaves · Thou Shalt Not Kill · A Certain Evening
Gold Leaves Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The year and I are old. In youth I…
A Man and His Image · The Mariner · The Triumph of Man
A Man and His Image All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine, Where sleeps a saint whose par…
Cyclopean · Joseph · Modern Elfland
Cyclopean A mountainous and mystic brute No rein can curb, no arrow shoot, Upon whose domed deformed back I sweep the planets scorching tra…
Eternities · A Christmas Carol · Alone
Eternities I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head, Thou knowest not the hairs,' though He, we…
King's Cross Station · The Human Tree · To Them That Mourn
King's Cross Station This circled cosmos whereof man is god Has suns and stars of green and gold and red, And cloudlands of great smoke, th…
The Outlaw · Behind · The End of Fear
The Outlaw Priest, is any song-bird stricken? Is one leaf less on the tree? Is this wine less red and royal That the hangman waits for me?…
The Holy of Holies · The Mirror of Madmen · E.C.B
The Holy of Holies 'Elder father, though thine eyes Shine with hoary mysteries, Canst thou tell what in the heart Of a cowslip blossom lies…
The Desecraters · An Alliance · The Ancient of Days
The Desecraters Witness all: that unrepenting, Feathers flying, music high, I go down to death unshaken By your mean philosophy. For your w…
The Last Masquerade · The Earth's Shame · Vanity
The Last Masquerade A wan new garment of young green Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair And in me surged the strangest prayer Ever…
The Lamp Post · The Pessimist · A Fairy Tale
The Lamp Post Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shame With your beauty: here among you Man hath set his spear o…
A Portrait · Femina Contra Mundum · To a Certain Nation
A Portrait Fair faces crowd on Christmas night Like seven suns a-row, But all beyond is the wolfish wind And the crafty feet of the snow. B…
The Praise of Dust
'What of vile dust?' the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke, The dead stone lived beneath my foot, And my whole body spoke. 'You…
The Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite, Mighty as fear and old as night; Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel, Waxed they merry and fat and cr…
The Ballad of God-Makers · At Night · The Wood-Cutter
The Ballad of God-Makers A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled, And ere the eve the bird had set Fear on th…
Art Colours · The Two Women · The Wild Knight
Art Colours On must we go: we search dead leaves, We chase the sunset's saddest flames, The nameless hues that o'er and o'er In lawless wed…
The Wild Knight
A dark manor-house shuttered and unlighted, outlined against a pale sunset: in front a large, but neglected, garden. To the right, in the f…
Good News
Between a meadow and a cloud that sped In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. I heard a secret—hearken in your ear, 'Behold the daisy ha…