It is no night to drown in: A full moon, river lapsing Black beneath bland mirror-sheen, The blue water-mists dropping Scrim after…

Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like…

I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles Proceed from your great…

I The day she visited the dissecting room They had four men laid out, black as burnt turkey, Already half unstrung. A…

Two, of course there are two. It seems perfectly natural now — The one who never looks up, whose eyes are lidded…

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty…

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls…

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But…

[1914-1918] ‘EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE’ A. ‘I was a “have.”’ B. ‘I was a “have-not.”’ (Together). ‘What hast thou given which I gave…

[1914-18] (‘The Honours of War’ – A Diversity of Creatures) These were our children who died for our lands; they were dear…

‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade. ‘To turn you out, to turn you out,’ the Colour-Sergeant said. ‘What makes you…