I think each year should bring Little fresh songs Like flowers in spring. That they might deck the hours For a brief while

Today, in class, I read aloud to forty little boys The legend of King Croesus’ boast… They were so young, Restless, and eager, I believed t…

When I go into town at half past… Great crowds of people stream acro… Hurrying, although it’s only half… They are the invisible people of t… When you go in to town about eleve…

I read a statement in a newspaper That Twentyman, the manufacturer, Found it was cheaper to deliver go… By horse and lorry than by motor-t… Or motor-van. So he had sold his…

I have two wings To raise me to the skies. Withouten these My soul could never rise. My shining friends,

Today I saw A market cart going along the road… High-piled and creaking with a son… Of cabbages. The driver sat

I lie in the dark Grass beneath and you above me, Curved like the sky, Insistent that you love me. But the high stars

When I get up to light the fire, And dress with all the speed I ma… By candle-light, I dread the hour… That go to make a single day. But then I leave my room, and see

We climbed that hill, The road flushed red in pride At being beauty’s boundary. Eithe… Stretched beauty, beauty ever, bea… For on the left

She has all Ireland in her blood, All Ireland’s need of sword and t… With memories dim before the flood… And conflicts of a thousand years. No son of Italy should love

When I was still a child I thought my love would be Noble, truthful, brave, And very kind to me. Then all the novels said

You may have other loves, Red mouths to kiss. Why should you lose That loveliness for this? No loveliness of mine

‘I want a parlourmaid.’ ‘Well, let me see If you were God, what kind of mai… ‘She would be tall, She would be fair,

She is not of the fireside, My lovely love; Nor books, nor even a cradle, She bends above. No, she is bent with lashes,

My lovely pixie, my good companion… You do not love me, bed-mate of mi… Save as a child loves, Careless of loving, Rather preferring raspberry wine.