The Years
Between






[October 31 2007]


The poems and epitaphs are listed in order of first line; click here for listings by title.

A tinker out of Bedford The Holy War
Across a world where all men grieve Justice
After the burial-parties leave The Hyaenas
Ah! What avails the classic bent The Benefactors
Be well assured that on our side A Song in Storm (or 'Fate's Discourtesy')
Blessèd be the English and all their ways and works. Jobson's Amen
Brethren, how shall it fare with me The Question (or 'The Neutral')
Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all France [Prelude to France at War]
For all we have and are For all we have and are (or 'No easy hope')
God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay Russia to the Pacifists
Have you news of my boy Jack?' My Boy Jack
He passed in the very battle-smoke Lord Roberts (or, 'When the Master Gunner Died')
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way A Pilgrim's Way (Heading to 'Up the River')
In a land that the sand overlays - the way to her gates are untrod The City of Brass
Not in the thick of the fight The Verdicts (or 'Jutland')
Oh ye who hold the written clue Things and the Man (In Memoriam - Joseph Chamberkain)
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid The Craftsman
The Babe was laid in the Manger A Nativity
The banked oars fell an hundred strong The Rowers
The Doorkeepers of Zion Zion (or 'The Doorkeepers of Zion')
The fans and the beltings they roar round me. The Song of the Lathes
The first time that Peter denièd his Lord A Song at Cock-crow (or 'Ille Autem Iterum Negavit')
The Garden called Gethsemane Gethsemane
The overfaithful sword returns the user 'Fragment of Unknown Origin'
The overfaithful sword returns the user The Pro-Consuls
The road to En-dor is easy to tread En-Dor
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; The Sons of Martha
There are no leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally; The Spies' March
These were never your true love's eyes The Oldest Song
They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young Mesopotamia
This is the State above the Law A Death-Bed
Through learned and laborious years The Outlaws
To the Judge of Right and Wrong The Choice (or 'Hymn of the Free People')
Today, across our fathers' graves The Veterans
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose The Virginity
Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad The Houses (or; 'In the House Militant'; or; 'A Song of the Dominions')
We counterfeited once for your disport Mary's Son (or Don't Stop)
We had a kettle; we let it leak Natural Theology (chorus)
We thought we ranked above the chance of ill Ulster 1914 (or 'The Covenant')
We were all one heart and one race The Declaration of London
We're not so old in the Army List The Irish Guards
What boots it on the Gods to call? A Recantation (or 'To Lyde of the Music Halls')
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride The Female of the Species
Whence comest thou, Gehazi Gehazi
Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? The Dead King (or 'Edward VII')