E. H. Visiak Night Shapes Dark hurrying shapes beset my path that night — Pushing and buffeting; and in my brain Dark hurrying shapes beset my soul. In vain I struggled; as a fevered dreamer might; Or some spent, breathless swimmer, in despite Of desperate stroke, thrust headlong to the main. The waking nightmare, monstrous and inane, Whirled, rushed, and huddled in its random flight. Like a spent swimmer, battling with a swoon, Silent I fought, yet seemed to cry aloud. When, at the challenge of a marching tune, Heard in a sudden stillness of the crowd, I looked aloft, and saw the great round moon Steadfast behind her ragged rout of cloud. Contents / Contents, p. 4 The Silent People The Silent People of No Man's Land Calm they lie, With a stare and vacant smile At the vacant sky. Over them swept the battle, And stirred them not. Armies passed over, beyond them. They are forgot. Calmly the earth deals with them, Melts them away. Nothing is left of them now but bones, Bones and clay. Bones of the Valley of Judgment, Bones stripped clean. We fought, day in, day out, and the others, With this between. Dawn comes white and finds them Stark and cold. Twilight creeps over and covers them, Fold on fold. Night cannot hide them from us. In the dark, again, We see the Silent People Who once were men. The Silent People of No Man's Land, They rise, they rise, With the glory of utter loss In their stary eyes. Beckoning, beckoning, calling, Pointing the way. But the dawn comes white, and finds them Bones and clay. Winds of the world blow o'er them Your serenade! Touch like a lute the broken earth Where our dead are laid! Broken bones of the martyrs, Reliques of pain, Anoint them, anoint them with sunlight, Robe them in rain. The Silent People of No Man's Land Calm they lie, Bones, broken and bleached, Under the sky. Over them sweeps the tempest, And stirs them not. We pass over, beyond them, They are forgot. Contents / Contents, p. 4 E. H. Visiak Lamps and Lanterns When I had sight, great glamour was In myriad lamps of coloured glass: Old lamps for new I never sold; For old were new, and new were old. And Chinese lanterns, paper globes, Were Dragon Gods in tissue robes That stood on air with squat, round shoon, Beneath the thin, receded Moon. Contents / Contents, p. 4 Stranded Dusk gathers. On the seaward hedge The wild hops, hanging bright, Gleam as a foam-spray flung on sedge From a sea of golden light . A ship lies heavy on the sands Above the warped, wan tide, Whose waves thrust ineffectual hands Beneath its murmuring side. They cannot lift the monstrous hulk, Nor break the ghostly spell; The ship lies dreaming, all her bulk Racked on a shoal of hell. I hear the sullen timbers creak, With echoings deep and numb; No other sound: nor groan nor shriek; For agony is dumb! But at the seams, in every crack, A beaded sweat appears: The soul that's stretched on such a rack Can shed no other tears! Contents / Contents, p. 4 Alec Waugh Rubble We may fill the daytime with friendship And laughter and song; But however the laughter may trip And the words break in song On a loved one's lip; And however gaily the road may bend Into the sky, It must come to this in the end, That we stand And watch the last friend Turn with a half-felt sigh And a wave of the hand; And silence is over the day, Shadows fall, And our happiness crumbles away Like a wall That nobody cares for, That falls stone by stone Till its grandeur is rubble once more, And we are alone. Contents / Contents, p. 4 Charles Williams Christmas Word through the world went On Christmas morn, — 'Tidings! behold, a Townsman is born!' Then in their council Smiled the high lords: 'Sword for world-conquest 'Mid a world's swords. Need shall our armies Have of each birth, In that last battle Wins us the earth.' Still were the priesthood, Singing the Mass: 'Lo, is our creed come Truly to pass? Blesséd and broken Crumbs that we give, Say! say, O chalice, Can a creed live? Then to lord Shakespeare, Brooding alone, While in a vision Lear was shown, While his just loathing Hung over men, Lo, from the darkness Came Imogen. Then said a free maid, Heart against mine, — Take me, lord governor, Who am all thine! Thou that hast blessed me With a new light, Ah, is thy handmaid Fair in thy sight?' Then said our Lady, — 'Clean is the hut, Filled are the platters, And the door shut. Sit, O son Jesus! Sit thou, sweet friend! Poor folk have supper And their woes end.' 'Now,' said our Father, 'All things are won: Welcome, O Saviour! Welcome, O Son! More than creation Lives now again, God hath borne Godhead Nowise in vain.' Word went through Sarras On Easter morn, — 'Tidings! behold a Townsman is born!' Contents / Contents, p. 4 Briseis The footfalls of the parting Myrmidons And counter-cries of leaguer and of town Are hushed behind her as the silks drop down; Alone she stands, and wonderingly cons Heads circleted with gold or helmed with bronze; Higher her eyes from crown to loftier crown Creep, till they fall, nigh-blasted, at the frown Of Argos, throned in his pavilions And mid his captains wrathfully aware How the plague smites the host, how by the sea Beyond the ships, with vengeful prayer and oath, Rages the young Achilles, of whose wrath Innocent, ignorant, a captive, she Sees but the dropped staff on the voided chair. Contents / Contents, p. 4 Bibliography ( This list includes poetical works only ). Laurence Binyon Persephone 1890 Lyric Poems 1894 Poems 1895 Porphyrion and other poems 1898 The Supper 1897 Odes 1901 Death of Adam and other poems 1904 Penthesilea 1905 Dream come true 1905 Paris and Œnone 1906 Attila , a tragedy 1907 England and other poems 1909 Auguries 1913 The Winnowing-fan 1914 Bombastes in the Shades , a play 1915 The Anvil and other poems 1916 The Cause: poems of the war 1917 For the Fallen and other poems 1917 The New World 1918 The Four Years: Collected War Poems 1919 G. K. Chesterton Ballad of the White Horse 1911 The Wild Knight and other poems 1914 Poems 1915 Wine, Water and Song 1915 Richard Church TFlood of Life and other poems 1917 Hurricane 1919 William H. Davies The Soul's Destroyer 1906 New Poems 1907 Nature Poems and others 1908 Farewell to Poesy and other poems 1910 Songs of Joy and others 1911 Foliage 1913 The Bird of Paradise and other poems 1914 Child Lovers and other poems 1916 Collected Poems 1916 Raptures 1918 Forty New Poems 1918 John Drinkwater Poems 1903 Death of Leander and other poems 1906 Lyrical and other poems 1908 Cophetua (play) 1911 Poems of Men and Hours 1911 Poems of Love and Earth 1912 Cromwell, and Other Poems 1913 Rebellion (play) 1914 Swords and Ploughshares 1915 Olton Pools and other poems 1916 Pawns 1917 Poems, 1908-1914 1917 Tides 1917 Abraham Lincoln (Prose Play with Chorus) 1918 Loyalties 1919 Wilfred Wilson Gibson Golden Helm 1903 On the Threshold and other plays 1907 Stonefolds 1907 Web of Life 1908 Akra the Slave 1910 Daily Bread 1910 Womankind 1912 Fires 1912 Borderlands 1914 Thoroughfares 1914 Battle 1915 Friends 1916 Livelihood 1917 Collected Poems 1917 Whin 1918 Louis Golding Sorrow of War 1919 Gerald Gould Lyrics 1906 Poems 1911 My Lady's Book 1913 Monogamy 1918 Laurence Housman Mendicant Rhymes 1906 Selected Poems 1908 The Winners 1915 Heart of Peace 1918 Richard le Gallienne My Ladies' Sonnets 1887 R. L. S., An Elegy 1895 Omar Repentant 1908 Orestes 1910 The Lonely Dancer and other poems 1914 The Silk Hat Soldier and other poems 1915 Rose Macaulay The Two Blind Countries 1914 Three Days 1919 Eugene Mason Flamma Vestalis and other poems 1890 The Field Floridus and other poems 1899 Vitrail and other poems 1916 Theodore Maynard Laughs and Whifts of Song 1915 Drums of Defeat 1917 Folly and other poems 1918 T. Sturge Moore The Vinedresser and other poems 1899 Aphrodite against Artemis 1901 Absalom 1903 The Centaur's Booty 1903 Danäe 1903 Rout of the Amazons 1903 Pan's Prophecy 1904 Theseus, Medea and Lyrics 1904 To Leda and other odes 1904 The Gazelles and other poems 1904 A Sicilian Idyll and Judith 1911 Mariamne 1911 Collected Poems 1916 Robert Nichols Ardours and Endurances 1917 Invocation 1919 Eden Philpotts Up-Along and Down-Along 1905 Wild Fruit 1911 Demeter's Daughter 1911 The Iscariot 1912 Delight and other poems 1916 Plain Song 1917 Arthur K. Sabin Typhon and other poems 1902 Death of Icarus 1906 The Wayfarers 1907 Dante and Beatrice 1908 Medea and Circe and other poems 1911 New Poems 1914 War Harvest 1914 Five Poems 1914 Christmas 1914 Margaret Sackville Poems 1901 A Hymn to Dionysus and other poems 1905 Hildris the Queen (a play) 1908 Lyrics 1912 Songs of Aphrodite and other poems 1913 Pageant of War 1916 William Kean Seymour Street of Dreams 1914 To Verhaeren and other poems 1917 To Verhaeren 1918 Swords and Flutes 1919 Edith Sitwell The Mother and other poems 1915 Clowns' Houses 1918 (With Osbert Sitwell) Twentieth Century Harlequinade and other poems Muriel Stuart Christ at Carnival and other poems 1916 The Cockpit of Idols 1918 W. R. Titterton River Music and other poems 1900 Guns and Guitars 1918 E. H. Visiak Buccaneer Ballads 1910 Flints and Flashes 1911 The Phantom Ship 1912 Battle Fiends and other poems 1916 Brief Poems 1919 Alec Waugh Resentment 1918 Charles Williams The Silver Stair 1912 Poems of Conformity 1917 Divorce ( In preparation ) end of text *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISCELLANY OF POETRY *** Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg™ electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG™ concept and trademark. 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