for a listing by first line.
The Benefactors The Choice (or 'Hymn of the Free People') The City of Brass The Craftsman The Dead King (or 'Edward VII') A Death-Bed The Declaration of London En-Dor Epitaphs of the War The Female of the Species For all we have and are (or 'No easy hope') France [Prelude to France at War] Gehazi Gethsemane The Holy War The Hyaenas The Irish Guards Jobson's Amen Lord Roberts (or, 'When the Master Gunner Died') Mesopotamia My Boy Jack Natural Theology (chorus) The Oldest Song The Pro-Consuls The Question (or 'The Neutral') The Rowers A Song at Cock-crow (or 'Ille Autem Iterum Negavit') A Song in Storm (or 'Fate's Discourtesy') The Sons of Martha Things and the Man (In Memoriam - Joseph Chamberkain) The Covenant The Verdicts (or 'Jutland') The Veterans
The Years
Between






[July 26 2011]


The poems are listed in alphabetical order of title; click
here
Title First line Notes
Ah! What avails the classic bent
To the Judge of Right and Wrong
In a land that the sand overlays - the way to her gates are untrod
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid
Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear?
This is the State above the Law
We were all one heart and one race
The road to En-dor is easy to tread
A. "I was a Have". B. "I was a 'Have-not'".
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride
For all we have and are
Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all
Whence comest thou, Gehazi
The Garden called Gethsemane
A tinker out of Bedford
The Houses (or; 'In the House Militant'; or; 'A Song of the Dominions') Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad
After the burial-parties leave
We're not so old in the Army List
Blessèd be the English and all their ways and works.
Justice Across a world where all men grieve
He passed in the very battle-smoke
Mary's Son (or Don't Stop) We counterfeited once for your disport
They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young
Have you news of my boy Jack?'
A Nativity The Babe was laid in the Manger
We had a kettle; we let it leak
These were never your true love's eyes
The Outlaws Through learned and laborious years
A Pilgrim's Way (Heading to 'Up the River') I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way
The overfaithful sword returns the user
Brethren, how shall it fare with me
A Recantation (or 'To Lyde of the Music Halls') What boots it on the Gods to call?
The banked oars fell an hundred strong
Russia to the Pacifists God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay
The first time that Peter denièd his Lord
Be well assured that on our side
The Song of the Lathes The fans and the beltings they roar round me.
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
The Spies' March There are no leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally;
Oh ye who hold the written clue
We thought we ranked above the chance of ill
Not in the thick of the fight
Today, across our fathers' graves
The Virginity Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose
Zion (or 'The Doorkeepers of Zion') The Doorkeepers of Zion