The poems are listed by title; click here for a listing by year of publication, and here for a listing by first line.
Year | Title | First line | Notes |
1932 | Akbar’s Bridge | Jelaludin Muhammed Akbar, Guardian of Mankind. | ![]() |
1926 | Alnaschar and the Oxen | There’s a pasture in the valley where the hanging woods divide | ![]() |
1937 | The Appeal | If I have given you delight | ![]() |
1932 | At His Execution | I am made all things to all men— | ![]() |
1932 | Azrael’s Count | Lo! The Wild Cow of the Desert, her yeanling estrayed from her | ![]() |
1926 | Banquet Night | Once in so often,’ King Solomon said | ![]() |
1926 | The Birthright | We have such wealth as Rome at her most pride | ![]() |
1933 | The Bonfires | We know the Rocket’s upward whizz | ![]() |
1926 | The Burden | One grief on me is laid | ![]() |
1934 | Cain and Abel | Cain and Abel were brothers born | ![]() |
1926 | The Centaurs | Up came the young Centaur-colts from the plain they were fathered in | ![]() |
1926 | The Changelings | Or ever the battered liners sank | ![]() |
1925 | Chartres Windows | Colour fulfils where Music has no power | ![]() |
1920 | The Clerks and the Bells | The merry clerks of Oxenford they stretch themselves at ease | ![]() |
1932 | The Coiner | Against the Bermudas we foundered, whereby | ![]() |
1923 | A Counting-out Song | What is the song the children sing | ![]() |
1932 | The Curé | Long years ago, ere R-lls or R-ce | ![]() |
1923 | A Departure | Since first the White Horse Banner blew free | ![]() |
1932 | Dinah in Heaven | She did not know that she was dead | ![]() |
1932 | The Disciple | He that hath a Gospel | ![]() |
1923 | Doctors | Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned | ![]() |
1929 | The English Way | After the fight at Otterburn | ![]() |
1932 | The Expert | Youth that trafficked long with Death | ![]() |
1930 | The Flight | When the grey geese heard the Fool’s tread | ![]() |
1932 | Four-Feet | I have done mostly what most men do | ![]() |
1933 | Fox-Hunting | When Samson set my brush afire | ![]() |
1927 | The Friends | I had some friends – but I dreamed that they were dead— | ![]() |
1932 | Gertrude’s Prayer | That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend | ![]() |
1926 | Gipsy Vans | Unless you come of the gipsy stock | ![]() |
1925 | The Glories | In Faiths and Food and Books and Friends— | ![]() |
1926 | Gow’s Watch, Acts II.,IV.,V. | Your tiercel’s too long at hack, Sir. He’s no eyass… | ![]() |
1932 | His Apologies | Master, this is Thy Servant. He is rising eight weeks old | ![]() |
1923 | The Hour of the Angel | Sooner or late – in earnest or in jest— | ![]() |
1935 | Hymn of Breaking Strain | The careful text-books measure | ![]() |
1929 | Hymn of the Triumphant Airman | Oh long had we paltered | ![]() |
1932 | Hymn to Physical Pain | Dread Mother of Forgetfulness | ![]() |
1926 | Jane’s Marriage | Jane went to Paradise: | ![]() |
1923 | The Junk and the Dhow | Once, a pair of savages found a stranded tree | ![]() |
1935 | The King and the Sea | After His Realms and States were moved | ![]() |
1922 | The King’s Pilgrimage | Our King went forth on Pilgrimage | ![]() |
1923 | The Last Lap | How do we know, by the bank-high river | ![]() |
1926 | The Last Ode | As watchers couched beneath a Bantine oak | ![]() |
1926 | Late Came the God | Late came the God, having sent his forerunners who were not regarded— | ![]() |
1926 | A Legend of Truth | Once on a time, the ancient legends tell | ![]() |
1920 | Lollius | Once on a time, the ancient legends tell | ![]() |
1923 | London Stone | When you come to London Town | ![]() |
1923 | The Master-Cook | With us there rade a Maister-Cook that came | ![]() |
1930 | Memories | Though all the Dead were all forgot | ![]() |
1932 | The Mother’s Son | I have a dream – a dreadful dream— | ![]() |
1932 | Naaman’s Song | Go, wash thyself in Jordan – go wash thee and be clean! | ![]() |
1932 | Neighbours | The man that is open of heart to his neighbour | ![]() |
1934 | Non Nobis Domine! | Non nobis Domine! | ![]() |
1923 | The Nurses | When, with a pain he desires to explain to the multitude (his servitors), Baby howls | ![]() |
1934 | Ode (Melbourne Shrine Of Remembrance) | So long as memory, valour, and faith endure | ![]() |
1927 | The Open Door | England is a cosy little country | ![]() |
1935 | Our Lady of the Sackcloth | There was a Priest at Philae | ![]() |
1934 | A Pageant of Elizabeth | Like Princes crowned they bore them | ![]() |
1932 | The Penalty | Once in life I watched a Star | ![]() |
1932 | The Playmate | She is not Folly – that I know | ![]() |
1927 | Poison of Asps | Poison of asps is under our lips? | ![]() |
1926 | The Portent | Oh, late withdrawn from human-kind | ![]() |
1923 | Preface to Land & Sea Tales | To all to whom this little book may come | ![]() |
1926 | Rahere | Rahere, King Henry’s Jester, feared by all the Norman Lords | ![]() |
1926 | A Rector’s Memory | The Gods that are wiser than Learning | ![]() |
1933 | Samuel Pepys | Like as the Oak, whose roots descend | ![]() |
1927 | A Song in the Desert | Friend, thou beholdest the lightning? Who has the charge of it | ![]() |
1927 | A Song of Bananas | Have you no Bananas, simple townsmen all? | ![]() |
1924 | A Song of French Roads | Now praise the Gods of Time and Chance | ![]() |
1932 | Song of Seventy Horses | Once again the Steamer at Calais – the tackles | ![]() |
1927 | Song of the Dynamo | How do I know what Order brings | ![]() |
1932 | The Storm Cone | This is the midnight – let no star | ![]() |
1927 | Such as in Ships | Such as in Ships and brittle Barks | ![]() |
1928 | Supplication of the Black Aberdeen | I pray! My little body and whole span | ![]() |
1926 | The Supports | To Him who made (makes) the Heavens abide, and gave the stars their motion | ![]() |
1926 | The Survival | Securely, after days | ![]() |
1932 | The Threshold | In their deepest caverns of limestone | ![]() |
1933 | To the Companions | How comes it that, at even-tide | ![]() |
1932 | The Totem | Ere the mother’s milk had dried | ![]() |
1927 | Two Races | I seek not what his soul desires | ![]() |
1926 | Untimely | Nothing in life has been made by man for man’s using | ![]() |
1926 | The Vineyard | At the eleventh hour he came | ![]() |
1930 | The Waster | From the date that the doors of his prep-school close | ![]() |
1926 | We and They | Father, Mother, and Me | ![]() |