Early Verse Schoolboy Lyrics and Echoes [October 21 2007] The poems are listed in the order determined when the collection was being prepared for publication; click here for a listing by title, and here for a listing by first line. SCHOOLBOY LYRICS Title First line Notes The Dusky Crew Our heads were rough and our hands were black Two sides of the medal I will into the world, I will make me a name This side the Styx Naked and shivering, how the oozy tide Reading the Will Here we have it, scratched and scored An echo Let the fruit ripen one by one Caret Something wanting in this world Roses Roses by babies' rosier fingers pressed The Lesson We two learned the lesson together The Song of the Sufferer His drink it is Saline Pyretic The Front Door I stand and guard - such ones as say The Seven Nights of Creation Lo! what is this I make! Are these his limbs Conventionality Passion and Fire - bah! are they ever linked with beauty? 'Donec Gratus Eram' So (Es) long as 'twuz ('twas) me alone The Boar of the Year In the shade of the trees by the lunch-tent the Old Haileyburian sat The Battle of Assaye Save (See) where our huge sea-castles from afar On Fort Duty There's tumult in the Khyber To the Common Room Placetne, Domini? - in far Lahore The Song of the Exiles That long white Barrack by the Sea Envy Hatred.and Malice Let us praise Such an One A Legend of Devonshire There were three daughters long ago Illusion, disillusion, allusion Fairest of women is she Overheard So the day dragged through The Jam-pot The Jam-pot - tender thought From the Wings We are actors at the side-scenes ere the play of life begins Credat Judaeus Three couples were we in the lane Solus cum sola We were alone on the beach Missed There is one moment when the gods are kind Requiescat in pace A new-made grave, for the damp earth stood Ave Imperatrix From every quarter of your land ECHOES A Vision of India Mother India, wan and thin The 'City of the Heart' I passed through the lonely Indian town The Indian farmer at Home Hoots! toots! ayont, ahint, afore The Flight of the Bucket H'm, for a subject it is well enough! Laocoon Under the shadow of Death Nursery Rhymes for little Anglo-Indians I had a little husband' …'Jack's own Jill goes up the Hill' …'Mary, Mary, quite contrary' … 'See-saw, Justice and Law' etc. Tobacco Sweet is the Rose's scent - Tobacco's smell Appropriate verses on an Elegant Landscape The fields were upholstered with poppies so red His Consolation So be it; you give me my release The Cursing of Stephen I turned the pages of the baby's book Jane Smith I journeyed, on a winter's day Nursery Idylls (I) to (V) A little sigh, a little shiver… Daffodils in English fields … In England elm-leaves fall ...Here's a mongoose … Tara Chand is the gardener's mate Sonnet Give me my rein, my sais! Give me my rein! Kopra-Brahm Cosmic force and Cawnpore leather The Sudden Bazaar Commonplaces Rain on the face of the sea Quaeritur Dawn that disheartens the desolate dunes London Town There's no God in London Himalayan Now the land is ringed with a circle of fire Our Lady of Many Dreams We pray to God, and to God it seems A Murder in the Compound At the wall's foot a smear of fly-flecked red 'Way down the Ravi River' I wandered by the riverside Amour de Voyage And I was a man who could write you rhyme Failure One brought her Fire from a distant place How the Day Broke The night was very silent, and the moon was going down A Locked Way Open the Gate! Land-bound Run down to the sea, O River The Ballad of the King's Daughter If my Love come to me over the water How the Goddess Awakened Where the reveller laid him, drunk with wine The Maid of the Meerschaum Nude nymph, when from Neuberg's I led her Estunt the Grief And so unto the End of Graves came he Cavaliere servente Alas for me, who loved my bow-wow well!