[July 26 2011]
The poems are listed in alphabetical order of title; click
here
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Title |
First line |
Notes |
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Ah! What avails the classic bent |
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To the Judge of Right and Wrong |
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In a land that the sand overlays - the way to her gates are untrod |
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Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid |
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Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? |
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This is the State above the Law |
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We were all one heart and one race |
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The road to En-dor is easy to tread |
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A. "I was a Have". B. "I was a 'Have-not'". |
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride |
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For all we have and are |
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Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all |
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Whence comest thou, Gehazi |
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The Garden called Gethsemane |
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A tinker out of Bedford |
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The Houses (or; 'In the House Militant'; or; 'A Song of the Dominions') |
Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad |
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After the burial-parties leave |
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We're not so old in the Army List |
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Blessèd be the English and all their ways and works. |
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Justice |
Across a world where all men grieve |
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He passed in the very battle-smoke |
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Mary's Son (or Don't Stop) |
We counterfeited once for your disport |
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They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young |
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Have you news of my boy Jack?' |
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A Nativity |
The Babe was laid in the Manger |
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We had a kettle; we let it leak |
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These were never your true love's eyes |
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The Outlaws |
Through learned and laborious years |
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A Pilgrim's Way (Heading to 'Up the River') |
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way |
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The overfaithful sword returns the user |
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Brethren, how shall it fare with me |
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A Recantation (or 'To Lyde of the Music Halls') |
What boots it on the Gods to call? |
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The banked oars fell an hundred strong |
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Russia to the Pacifists |
God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay |
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The first time that Peter denièd his Lord |
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Be well assured that on our side |
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The Song of the Lathes |
The fans and the beltings they roar round me. |
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The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; |
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The Spies' March |
There are no leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally; |
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Oh ye who hold the written clue |
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We thought we ranked above the chance of ill |
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Not in the thick of the fight |
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Today, across our fathers' graves |
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The Virginity |
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose |
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Zion (or 'The Doorkeepers of Zion') |
The Doorkeepers of Zion |
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