Britannia needs no Boulevards, No spaces wide and gay: Her march was through the crooked… Along the narrow way. Nor looks she where, New York’s s…

[From a souvenir programme produced for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912, for those affected by the sinking of the Titanic just a month previously. It includes poems an...

God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shop… And go to inns to dine; Where the bacon’s on the rafter

She sat upon her Seven Hills She rent the scarlet robes about h… Nor yet in her two thousand years Had ever grieved that men should d… But what new horror shakes the min…

For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a tree; You saw a moon from Sussex Downs,

The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone; especially to a wood-cut or a lithographic stone. Modern people put their trust in pictures, especially scientific pictures, as...

It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols. It is obvious that a Russian republican might come to identify the eagle a...

A word came forth in Galilee, a w… It climbed and rang and blessed an… A word of sudden secret hope, of t… Of wrath and pity fused in fire, a… A star that o’er the citied world…

He left his dust, by all the myria… Of yon dense millions trampled to… Or 'neath some cross forgotten lay… Where dark seas whiten on a lonely… He left his work, what all his lif…

When the long grey lines came floo… We stood and drank of the last fre… They had led us back from the lost… And stilled us: and our gaping gun… The grey tribes flowed for ever fr…

The Symbol The speaking at the Rotary is Pra… The talking at the Rotary turns m… But both require an Emblem; and a… When you argue in a circle and do…

It has already been remarked here that the English know a great deal about past American literature, but nothing about past American history. They do not know either, of course, as well...

Jones had a dog; it had a chain; Not often worn, not causing pain; But, as the I.K.L. had passed Their 'Unleashed Cousins Act’ at… Inspectors took the chain away;

I have come forth alive from the l… Where the charm is strong as the t… Torture of wordless dance and wine… Palace hidden in palace, garden wi… Women veiled in the sun, or bare a…