Category: Poetry
PAGE V.R. 1819–1901 231 WAR POEMS— EMBARCATION 235 DEPARTURE 237 THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY 239 THE GOING OF THE BATTERY 242 AT THE WAR OFFICE 245 A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY 247 THE DEAD DRUMMER 249 A WIFE IN LONDON 251 THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN 253 SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES 260 THE...
PAGE V.R. 1819–1901 231 WAR POEMS— EMBARCATION 235 DEPARTURE 237 THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY 239 THE GOING OF THE BATTERY 242 AT THE WAR OFFICE 245 A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY 247 THE D...
2. Chapter 2Maybe it rests in the loam I view, Maybe it throbs in a myrtle’s green, Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene.
3. Chapter 3“Dark, then, its life! For not a cry Of aught it bears do I now hear; Of its own act the threads were snapt whereby Its plaints had reached mine ear.
4. Chapter 4AROUND the house the flakes fly faster, And all the berries now are gone From holly and cotoneaster Around the house. The flakes fly!—faster Shutting indoors that crumb-outcaste...
5. Chapter 5THERE have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come— Points in my path when the dark might have stolen on me, artless, unrueing— Ere I had learnt that t...