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Arms and the Boy
2023-12-06Arms and the Boy Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman's ...
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Parable of the Old Men and the Young
2023-12-06Parable of the Old Men and the Young So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both ...
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Mental Cases
2023-12-06Mental Cases Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish...
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The Show
2023-12-06The Show My soul looked down from a vague height with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth, Gray,...
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Apologia pro Poemate Meo
2023-12-06Apologia pro Poemate Meo I, too, saw God through mud —— The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to the...
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Greater Love
2023-12-06Greater Love Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Kindness of wooed and wooer Seems shame to their love pure. O L...
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The Prophecy of Capys (30)
2023-12-06XXX ``Blest and thrice blest the Roman Who sees Rome's brightest day, Who sees that long victorious pomp Wind down the Sacred Way, And through the...
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The Prophecy of Capys (29)
2023-12-06XXIX ``Hurrah! for Manius Curius, The bravest son of Rome, Thrice in utmost need sent forth, Thrice drawn in triumph home. Weave, weave, for Manius Cu...
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The Prophecy of Capys (28)
2023-12-06XXVIII ``Hurrah! for the great triumph That stretches many a mile. Hurrah! for the rich dye of Tyre, And the fine web of Nile, The helmets gay with pl...
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The Prophecy of Capys (27)
2023-12-06XXVII ``Hurrah! for the great triumph That stretches many a mile. Hurrah! for the wan captives That pass in endless file. Ho! bold Epirotes, whither H...