What! And it was so! Thou wert th… Death-stricken from behind, O heart of hearts! and they were m… That rent thee from mankind! Greedy hatred chasing love,

I sallied afield when the bud firs… And the sun first slanteth hotly, And I came on a yokel in cap and… And a suit of saffron motley. He was squat on a bank where a sel…

‘Grandmother dear, you do not know… Under the twittering eaves of home… Rocking cradles, and covering jams… Or piecing together lavender bags… Daughter, wife, and mother in turn…

The Young Land said, 'I have bor… But can suffer it now no more; I must end this endless inhuman wr… Within hail of my own free shore. So fling out the war-flag’s folds,…

Lady! in this night of June Fair like thee and holy, Art thou gazing at the moon That is rising slowly? I am gazing on her now:

Sweet lark! that, bedded in the ta… Protractest dewy slumbers, wake, a… The brightest moments of the morni… Thou shouldst be up, and carolling… Go up! go up! and melt into the bl…

‘He dieth young whom the Gods lov… By Greek Menander; nor alone by… Who gave to Greece his English so… Re-echoed is the saying, but likew… ‘Who uttered nothing base,’ and fr…

Will you walk with me to the brow… Whose daughter lies in the churchy… Half a mile by the winding lane, a… There you may lean o’er the gate a… Stop and talk of her girl that is…

The last warm gleams of sunset fad… From cypress spire and stonepine d… And, in the twilight’s deepening s… Lingering, I scan the wrecks of R… Husht the Madonna’s Evening Bell…

Realm of ocean-guarded Peace, Humming loom and grazing steer, Farm, and forge, and woven fleece, Happier, homelier, year by year, Hark! athwart the wintry air,

Hush! or you’ll wake her. Softly… She slumbers in her little bed. What do I see? A coffin! Dead? Yes, dead at break of morning. No, no, it cannot, cannot be!

‘Tell me again; I did not hear: I… Hush! little one, for mother wants… There! At my breast be good and s… They say that the source is poison… ’I shall bring them to shame, aye…

Once again, banners, fly! Clang again, bells, on high, Sounding to sea and sky, Longer and louder, Mafeking’s glory with

Incomparable Italy, farewell! Tears not unmanly trespass to the… From thy soft touch and glance uns… Compelled to turn and suffer other… E’en as I leave thee, the materna…

Over the peaceful veldt, Silently, snowflakes fall! Silently, slow, unfelt, Cover the Past with a pall! Brave brother Boers, let us hie