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