The New Morning: Poems

COLLECTED POEMS--_2 Vols._ THE LORD OF MISRULE A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE THE WINE-PRESS WALKING SHADOWS--_Prose_ TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN SHERWOOD THE ENCHANTED ISLAND AND OTHE...

And those old comrades rise around him there, Old foemen, side by side, With eyes like stars upon the brave night-air, And young as when they died, To hear your bells, O beautif...

I've heard the Tories talk like fools; And the rich fool that apes the Tory. I've seen the shopmen break your rules And die like Christ, in Christ's own glory.

Yet if some great new "rebel" in his pride Should pass that way and hear us laughing low Like lovers, in the darkness, side by side, He might catch this:--"The dullards do not k...

But Michael Oaktree was a man whose love Had never waned through all his eighty years. His faith was hardly faith. He seemed a part Of all that he believed in. He had lived In c...