“Star-Talk” by Robert Graves
Star-Talk 'Are you awake, Gemelli, This frosty night?' 'We'll be awake till reveillé, Which is Sunrise,' say the Gemelli, 'It's ...
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“Moonstruck” by Richard Hughes
"Moonstruck" Cold shone the moon, with noise The night went by. Trees uttered things of woe: Bent grass dared not ...
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“Her New-Year Posy” by William Kerr
"Her New-Year Posy" When I seek the world through For images of you, Though apple-blossom is glad And the lily ...
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“Dust” by Rupert Brooke
"Dust" When the white flame in us is gone, And we that lost the world's delight Stiffen in darkness, left ...
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“The Sleeper” by Walter de la Mare
"The Sleeper" As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear ...
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“The Kingfisher” by William H. Davies
"The Kingfisher" It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues; And, as her mother's ...
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“Milk for the Cat” by Harold Monro
"Milk for the Cat" When the tea is brought at five o'clock, And all the neat curtains are drawn with ...
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“Beauty and Beauty” by Rupert Brooke
"Beauty and Beauty" When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the ...
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“A House” by J.C. Squire
"A House" Now very quietly, and rather mournfully, In clouds of hyacinth the sun retires, And all the stubble-fields that were ...
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“‘Ah, Koelue. . .'” by Isaac Rosenberg
"'Ah, Koelue. . .'" Ah, Koelue ! Had you embalmed your beauty, so It could not backward go, Or change ...
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“Discovery” by John Freeman
"Discovery" Beauty walked over the hills and made them bright. She in the long fresh grass scattered her rains Sparkling ...
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“Sick Leave” by Siegfried Sassoon
"Sick Leave" When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,— They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead. While the ...
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“Goldfish” by Harold Monro
"Goldfish" They are the angels of that watery world, With so much knowledge that they just aspire To move themselves ...
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“Driftwood” by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
"Driftwood" Black spars of driftwood burn to peacock falmes, Sea-emeralds and sea-purples and sea-blues, And all the innumerable ever-changing hues ...
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“Sullen Moods” by Robert Graves
Sullen Moods Love, do not count your labour lost Though I turn sullen, grim, retired Even at your side; my ...
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“The Villain” by William H. Davies
The Villain While joy gave clouds the light of stars, That beamed where'er they looked; And calves and lambs had ...
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“Moonlit Apples” by John Drinkwater
Moonlit Apples At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows, And the skylight lets the moonlight ...
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“Seven Seals” by D.H. Lawrence
Seven Seals Since this is the last night I keep you home, Come, I will consecrate you for the journey ...
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“The Fugitive” by John Freeman
The Fugitive In the hush of early even The clouds came flocking over, Till the last wind fell from heaven ...
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“Invocation” by Francis Brett Young
Invocation Whither, O, my sweet mistress, must I follow thee? For when I hear thy distant footfall nearing, And wait ...
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“Ecstasy” by W.J. Turner
Ecstasy I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn Of boys who sought for shells along the shore, Their white ...
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“The Old Ships” by James Elroy Flecker
The Old Ships I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Beyond the village which men still call Tyre, ...
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“The Patchwork Bonnet” by Robert Graves
The Patchwork Bonnet Across the room my silent love I throw Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight, Your ...
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“Biography” by John Masefield
Biography When I am buried, all my thoughts and adts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And ...
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“Rupert Brooke” by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Rupert Brooke Your face was lifted to the golden sky Ablaze beyond the black roofs of the square, As flame ...
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“Miss Thompson Goes Shopping” by Martin Armstrong
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping In her lone cottage on the downs, With winds and blizzards and great crowns Of shining ...
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“The Sleeper” by Walter de la Mare
The Sleeper As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear ...
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Sonnet “Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun” by Rupert Brooke
"Sonnet"(Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the ...
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“In the Poppy Field” by James Stephens
In the Poppy Field Mad Patsy said, he said to me,That every morning he could seeAn angel walking on the ...
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“Late Snow” by J.C. Squire
Late Snow The heavy train through the dim country went rolling, rolling,Interminably passing misty snow-covered plough-land ...
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“A Saxon Song” by Vita Sackville-West
A Saxon Song Tools with the comely names, Mattock and scythe and spade, ...
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“The Mind’s Liberty” by William H. Davies
The Mind's Liberty The mind, with its own eyes and ears, May for these others have no care;No matter ...
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“A Rainy Day in April” by Francis Ledwidge
A Rainy Day in April When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rainLike holy water falls upon the plain,'Tis ...
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“A Lonely Place” by Edward Shanks
A Lonely Place The leafless trees, the untidy stackLast rainy summer raised in haste,Watch the sky turn from fair to ...
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“The Death-Bed” by Siegfried Sassoon
The Death-Bed He drowsed and was aware of silence heapedRound him, unshaken as the steadfast walls;Aqueous like floating rays of ...
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“The Cuckoo Wood” by Edmund Beale Sargant
The Cuckoo Wood Cuckoo, are you calling me, Or is it a voice of wizardry?In these woodlands I am lost,From ...
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“Fulfilment” by Robert Nichols
Fulfilment Was there love once? I have forgotten her.Was there grief once? grief yet is mine.Other loves I have, men ...
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“The Giant Puffball” by Edmund Blunden
The Giant Puffball From what sad star I know not, but I found Myself new-born below the coppice rail,No bigger than ...
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“The Bird at Dawn” by Harold Monro
The Bird at Dawn What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry ...
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“Reciprocity” by John Drinkwater
Reciprocity I do not think that skies and meadows areMoral, or that the fixture of a starComes of a quiet ...
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“Music” by Walter de la Mare
Music When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers ...
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“Dust” by Rupert Brooke
Dust When the white flame in us is gone, And we that lost the world's delightStiffen in darkness, left ...
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