The poems are listed by first line; click here for a listing by title.
First line | Title | Notes |
A Nation spoke to a Nation | Our Lady of the Snows | ![]() |
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine | Cruisers | ![]() |
Before a midnight breaks in storm | Dedication | ![]() |
Daily with knees that feign to quake | Rimmon | ![]() |
Files | The Files | ![]() |
For things we never mention | The Broken Men | ![]() |
God gave all men all earth to love | Sussex | ![]() |
Her hand was still on her sword-hilt, the spur was still on her heel | The Young Queen | ![]() |
‘Here is nothing new , or aught unproven’, say the trumpets | The Old Issue | ![]() |
Here where my fresh-turned furrows run | The Settler | ![]() |
In extended observation of the ways and works of man | Et Dona Ferentes | ![]() |
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should | The Lesson | ![]() |
Lived a woman wonderful | South Africa | ![]() |
No doubt but ye are the people —your throne is above the King’s | The Islanders | ![]() |
Not in the camp his victory lies | The Reformers | ![]() |
Now the Four-way lodge is opened, and the Hunting Winds are loosed | The Feet of the Young Men | ![]() |
Oh glorious are the guarded heights | The Wage-slaves | ![]() |
Oh Hushee, carry your shoes in your hand, and bow your head on your breast | Kitchener’s School | ![]() |
Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way | Buddhe at Kamakura | ![]() |
Said England unto Pharaoh, ‘I must make a man of you’ | Pharaoh and the Sergeant | ![]() |
Sudden the desert changes | Bridge Guard in the Karroo | ![]() |
Take up the White Man’s Burden | The White Man’s Burden | ![]() |
The God of Fair Beginnings | The Song of Diego Valdez | ![]() |
The strength of twice three thousand horse | The Destroyers | ![]() |
The Word came down to Dives, in Torment where he lay | The Peace of Dives | ![]() |
There’s no sense in going further—it’s the edge of cultivation | The Explorer | ![]() |
They christened my brother of old | The Bell Buoy | ![]() |
This is our lot if we live so long, and labour unto the end | The Old Men | ![]() |
We have no heart for the fishing, we have no hand for the oar | The Dykes | ![]() |
We’ve sent our little Cupids all ashore | The Second Voyage | ![]() |
When I was a King and a mason —a Master proven and skilled | The Palace | ![]() |
When that great Kings return to clay | The Burial | ![]() |
When the darkened Fifties dip to the North | Song of the Wise Children | ![]() |
Where run your colts at pasture | White Horses | ![]() |
Who hath desired the sea? —the sight of salt water unbounded | The Sea and the Hills | ![]() |
Who recalls the twlight and the ranged tents in order | Dirge of Dead Sisters | ![]() |
With those that bred, with those that loosed the strife | General Joubert | ![]() |
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go | The Truce of the Bear | ![]() |
SERVICE SONGS | ||
At times when under cover I ‘ave said | The Instructor | ![]() |
God of our fathers, known of old | Recessional | ![]() |
I do not love my Empire’s foes | Piet | ![]() |
I wish my mother could see me now, with a fence-post under my arm | M.I. | ![]() |
Me that ‘ave been what I’ve been | Chant Pagan | ![]() |
Only two African kopjes | Two Kopjes | ![]() |
Out o’ the wilderness, dusty and dry | Columns | ![]() |
Peace is declared, ‘an I return | The Return | ![]() |
Smells are surer than sounds or sights | Lichtenberg | ![]() |
The bachelor, ‘e fights for one | The Married Man | ![]() |
The General ‘eard the firin’ on the flank | Stellenbosch | ![]() |
There is a word you often see, pronounce it as you may | Ubique | ![]() |
There is a world outside the one you know | Wilful-Missing’ | ![]() |
“Tommy” you was when it began | The Service Man | ![]() |
We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—slogging over Africa | Boots | ![]() |
We’ve rode and fiought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand | The Parting of the Columns | ![]() |
When by the labour of my ‘ands | Half Ballad of Waterval | ![]() |