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by Paul Keegan


  Virtue may chuse the high or low Degree 462

  W. resteth here, that quick could never rest 85

  Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea 786

  Waiting for when the sun an hour or less 985

  Was it for this 560

  We are not near enough to love 813

  We are upon the Scheldt. We know we move 796

  We could have crossed the road but hesitated 964

  We know the Rocket’s upward whizz 907

  We stood by a pond that winter day 823

  We were together since the War began 862

  Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content 138

  Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me 188

  Weary already, weary miles to-night 771

  Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie 523

  Weepe you no more sad fountaines 185

  Well; if ever I saw such another Man since my Mother bound my Head 449

  Well! if the Bard was weather-wise, who made 569

  Well then; the promis’d hour is come at last 398

  Were I laid on Greenland’s Coast 446

  Were I (who to my cost already am 360

  Westron wynde when wyll thow blow 74

  Whan I remembre agayn 50

  Whan I was come ayeyn into the place 9

  Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote 20

  What are days for? 998

  ‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade 805

  What can I do in Poetry 296

  What has this Bugbear death to frighten Man 384

  What in our lives is burnt 852

  What is it to grow old? 764

  ‘What is the world, O soldiers? 826

  What is thought that is not free? 748

  What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 857

  What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands 902

  What should one 988

  What slender Youth bedew’d with liquid odours 353

  What was he doing, the great god Pan 745

  What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me thro’ 762

  What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass 438

  What’s become of Waring 693

  When Adam dalf and Eve span 15

  When all this is over, said the swineherd 1033

  When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper 308

  When as the Rie reach to the chin 142

  When Cleomira disbelieves 418

  When chapman billies leave the street 528

  When Daffadils begin to peere 207

  When Dasies pied, and Violets blew 137

  When did you start your tricks 881

  When first the College Rolls receive his Name 482

  When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house 1098

  When I am dead, my dearest 740

  When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare 193

  When I consider how my light is spent 352

  ‘When I last saw Waring…’ 695

  When I reached his place 901

  When I survay the bright 274

  When I survey the wond’rous Cross 411

  When I was once in Baltimore 830

  When I watch the living meet 815

  When I wer still a bwoy, an’ mother’s pride 735

  When Letty had scarce pass’d her third glad year 789

  When Love its utmost vigour does imploy 385

  When Love with unconfined wings 298

  When lovely woman stoops to folly 503

  When midnight comes a host of dogs and men 689

  When my devotions could not pierce 245

  When my love sweares that she is made of truth 198

  When night stirred at sea 892

  When that I was and a little tiny boy 180

  When the eye of day is shut 874

  When the fierce North Wind with his airy Forces 410

  When the Master was calling the roll 1070

  When thou must home to shades of under ground 184

  When to my deadlie pleasure 152

  When to my House you come dear Dean 442

  When Venus first did see 107

  When VENUS her ADONIS found 387

  When we for Age could neither read nor write 386

  When we were children old Nurse used to say 845

  When Westwell Downes I gan to treade 321

  When, when and whenever death closes our eyelids 866

  When you see millions of the mouthless dead 843

  When your lobster was lifted out of the tank 1086

  Where do’st thou carelesse lie 238

  Where is the grace of Sir Arthur O’Kellyn? 682

  Where is this stupendous stranger 502

  Where, like a pillow on a bed 229

  Where London’s column, pointing at the skies 451

  Where now the vital energy that moved 522

  Where the remote Bermudas ride 367

  Where, to me, is the loss 826

  Where wil you have your vertuous names safe laid 168

  Whether at Doomsday (tell, ye reverend wise) 452

  Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that 644

  Which I was given because 1054

  While going the road to sweet Athy 797

  While in this garden Proserpine was taking hir pastime 95

  While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead 839

  While that my soul repairs to her devotion 244

  Whil’st Alexis lay prest 354

  Whilst in this cold and blust’ring Clime 391

  Whirl up, sea 834

  ‘Who affirms that crystals are alive?’ 827

  Who did kill Cock Robbin? 473

  Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two 861

  Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde 80

  Who would true Valour see 379

  Why Brownlee left, and where he went 1069

  Why does the sea moan evermore? 777

  Why does the thin grey strand 842

  Why sholde I noght as wel eek telle yow al 22

  Why so pale and wan fond Lover? 258

  Why will Delia thus retire 479

  Wild raspberries gathered in a silent valley 1047

  Will there be snowfall on lofty Soracte 766

  Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne 233

  Wine, the red coals, the flaring gas 808

  Wise Emblem of our Politick World 324

  With a Whirl of Thought oppress’d 448

  With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb’st the skies 120

  With my forked branch of Lebanese cedar 1093

  With my looks I am bound to look simple or fast I would rather look simple 978

  With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children 863

  With the wasp at the innermost heart of a peach 765

  Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me 834

  Women reminded him of lilies and roses 1048

  Ye captive soules of blindefold Cyprians boate 103

  Ye have been fresh and green 295

  Ye jovial boys who love the joys 568

  Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light 369

  Years ago I was a gardener 1095

  Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines 134

  Yes! e’en in Sleep th’impressions all remain 600

  Yes! in the sea of life enisled 720

  Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears. This morning as usual 728

  Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more 259

  Yf my deare love were but the childe of state 197

  ‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said 754

  You could draw a straight line from the heels 1048

  You did not walk with me 834

  You meaner Beauties of the Night 237

  You, Morningtide Star, now are steady-eyed, over the east 891

  You stood with your back to me 1083

  You strange, astonish’d-looking
, angle-faced 690

  You think this cruel? take it for a rule 456

  You well compacted Groves, whose light and shade 333

  Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh 351

  You’ve plucked a curlew, drawn a hen 829

  Index of Titles

  À quoi bon dire, 845

  Absalom and Achitophel, 376

  Adam Pos’d, 412

  Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous, 525

  Adonais, 645

  Aeneid, The, 66

  After a Journey, 835

  Afternoons, 999

  Ah! Sun-Flower, 540

  Alas! Poor Queen, 965

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 754

  All Ovid’s Elegies, 159

  Among School Children, 894

  Amaretti, 138

  Amours de Voyage (Canto II), 728

  Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the Greek, 319

  Ancestor, 1037

  Another Part of the Field, 1062

  Anseo, 1070

  Answer, The, 248

  Answer to Another Perswading a Lady to Marriage, An, 340

  Antarctica, 1083

  Anthem for Doomed Youth, 857

  Antiplatonick, The, 307

  Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England, An, 1056

  Argument of His Book, The, 293

  Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, in English Heroical Verse, 122

  Aristomenes. Canto First, 649

  Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, The, 921

  Arrival of the Bee Box, The, 1001

  Arrivals at a Watering-Place, 676

  As He Came Near Death, 1012

  Aspens, 844

  Astrophil and Stella, 119

  At Castle Boterel, 836

  At Grass, 973

  At the Cavour, 808

  Aubade, 938

  Auguries of Innocence, 586

  August 1914, 852

  Aunt Helen, 851

  Authorized Version of the Bible, The, 202

  Autobiography, 940

  Autumn (de la Mare), 825

  Autumn (Hulme), 832

  Autumn Journal, 932

  Badger, The, 689

  Bahnhofstrasse, 891

  Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate, The, 87

  Baldanders, 1065

  Ballad of Reading Gaol, The, 819

  Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck, 884

  Ballade of Religion and Marriage, A, 803

  Base Details, 859

  Bavarian Gentians, 907

  Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, A, 452

  Beggar’s Opera, The, 446

  Belfast Confetti, 1095

  Belmans Song, A, 207

  Bermudas, 367

  Better Answer to Cloe Jealous, A, 426

  Bible, The, 79

  Birthnight, The, 825

  Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church, The, 701

  Bit of Brass, A, 1042

  Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me, The, 1096

  Blenheim Oranges, 855

  Blue Jay, The, 883

  Bog-Face, 945

  Boke of Troilus, The, 12

  Bonfires, The, 907

  Book of Nonsense, A, 704

  Borough, The, 600

  Break of Day in the Trenches, 852

  Bride of Lammermoor, The, 612

  Briggflatts, 1003

  Britannia’s Pastorals, 218

  Broagh, 1032

  Burial of the Dead, The, 876

  Burning Babe, The, 141

  Burning of the Leaves, The, 957

  But for Lust, 962

  Butchers, The, 1098

  By the Pond, 982

  By the Sea, 777

  Caelica, 169

  Canonization, The, 224

  Canterbury Tales, The, 20

  Casabianca, 668

  Castaway, A, 767

  Cast-away, The, 582

  Cathay, 839

  Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces, A, 264

  Centuries of Meditations, 344

  Certayn Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, 90

  Chauvinist, 1094

  Childhood, 888

  Childish Prank, A, 1023

  Chomei at Toyama, 904

  Chosen Light, A, 1009

  Church-monuments, 244

  City, 982

  Clod and the Pebble, The, 539

  Clote, The, 698

  Cock Robbin, 473

  Cock-Crow, 843

  Cock-crowing, 316

  Cold Heaven, The, 837

  Collar, The, 246

  Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, 981

  Comming of Good Luck, The, 295

  Common Form, 862

  Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne, 93

  Complaint of Hoccleve, The, 41

  Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 590

  Confessio Amantis, 37

  Continuous, 1076

  Contrite Heart, The, 517

  Convergence of the Twain, The, 831

  Coopers Hill, 276

  Coronach, 603

  Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, The, 134

  Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 6, The, 330

  Courtyards in Delft, 1077

  Coward, The, 862

  Cradle-Song at Twilight, 811

  Crocodile, A, 719

  Crow, 1023

  Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.14, 411

  Crystal Cabinet, The, 585

  Cymbeline, 199

  Daft-Days, The, 509

  Danny Deever, 805

  Darkling Thrush, The, 824

  David and Fair Bethsabe, 167

  Davideis, 320

  Day of Judgement, The, 448

  Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick, The, 410

  Days, 998

  De Rerum Natura, 395

  Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious, The, 1072

  Death by Warer, 878

  Death in the Kitchen, 666

  Death of Adonis, The, 387

  Death’s Jest Book, Or the Fool’s Tragedy, 716

  Decease Release, 139

  Definition of Love, The, 371

  Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802, 569

  Delay has Danger, 612

  Delia, 125

  Delight in Disorder, 294

  Deniall, 245

  Departure of the Good Dœmon, The, 296

  Description of a City Shower, A, 415

  Desert Flowers, 952

  Deserted Village, The, 504

  Desertmartin, 1079

  Devonshire Street W.1, 971

  Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime, A, 313

  Dipsychus, 757

  Dirce, 680

  Dirge, 945

  Disabled Debauchee, The, 363

  Disused Shed in Co. Wexford, A, 1045

  Divine Epigrams, 285

  Do not go gentle into that good night, 968

  Don Juan, 617

  Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna Blvnt, A, 255

  Dover Beach, 762

  Down by the Salley Gardens, 804

  Dowser, The, 1093

  Dresden, 1087

  Drinking, 319

  Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A, 890

  Dunciad, The, 469

  During Wind and Rain, 853

  Dutchesse of Malfy, The, 211

  Duty Surviving Self-Love, 668

  Earthen Lot, The, 1075

  Easter, 1916, 869

  Ecclesiastes 12: 1–8 The Creator is to be remembred in due time, 204

  Echo, 237

  Eden Rock, 1092

  Edge, 1002

  Edward, Edward, 497

  Eemis Stane, The, 889

  1815, 1062

  Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont, 591

  Elegies, 1083

  Elegy, 972

  Elegy Written in a Country Churc
h Yard, 484

  Embleme IV [Canticles 7.10. I am my Beloved’s, and his desire is towards me.], 250

  Empty Vessel, 890

  Endymion, 609

  Englands Helicon, 173

  Envoy to Scogan, 36

  Envy, 739

  Eolian Harp, The, 542

  Epic, 980

  Epicoene, 191

  Epicurean Ode, An, 290

  Epigram on Scolding, An, 449

  Epigrammes, 215

  Epilogue to the Satires, 462

  Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, An, 456

  Epistle from Mrs. Y[onge] to her Husband, 432

  Epistle to Bathurst, An, 451

  Epistle to Burlington, An, 446

  Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation, 424

  Epitaph, 792

  Epitaph for One Who Would Not be Buried in Westminster Abbey, 463

  EPITAPH. Intended for Sir ISAAC NEWTON, 459

  Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed), 792

  Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries, 875

  Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician, An, 468

  Epitaph on M.H., An, 390

  Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney Lying in St Paul’s without a Monument, to be Fastned upon the Church Door, 252

  Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham, 291

  Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford, 292

  Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers, 271

  Epitaphs of the War. 1914–18, 862

  Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald, An, 94

  Eve of St. Agnes, The, 624

  Eve of St. Mark, The, 1057

  Evening Quatrains, 389

  Everyone Sang, 860

  Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat, An, 85

  Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten Freind, An, 267

  Explosion, The, 1041

  Exposure, 1043

  Exstasie, The, 229

  Fables, 442

  Faerie Queene, The, 111

  Fall of Rome, The, 969

  False Friends-like, 735

  Fame, 838

  February 17th, 1066

  Feltons Epitaph, 242

  Fifteen Books of Ovid, The, 98

  Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I, The, 353

  Fired Pot, The, 844

  First Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The, 397

  First Four Books of Ovid, The, 95

  Fish Answers, A, 691

  Fish, the Man, and the Spirit, The, 690

  Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa, The, 312

  Floating Island, 670

  Flower, The, 247

  Fly, The, 1010

  For the Fallen, 863

  Force of Love, The, 418

  Force that through the green fuse, The, 909

  Fornicator. A New Song, The, 568

  Forrest, The, 217

  Forsaken Garden, A, 781

  Fourth Book of Lucretius. Concerning the Nature of Love, 385

  Free Thought, 748

  Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The, 545

  Frog, The, 1078

  Frost at Midnight, 558

  Full Moon and Little Frieda, 1009

 

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