Dreams are like a bird that mocks, Over the hedge you'll see him sail. Old birds are neither caught with salt nor chaff: They watch you from the apple bough and laugh. Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself, and turn away. Small matter if he come or stay; I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED? Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! They're full of wine and riches from far lands. I can make caves, By lifting up the island and huge waves And storms, and then with head and ears well under Blow bubbles with a monstrous roar like thunder, A bull-of-Bashan sound. The seas run high and the boats split asunder The thin soap slips And slithers like a shark under the ships. My toes are on the soap-dish-that's the effect Of my huge storms; an iron steamer's wrecked. The soap slides round and round; He's biting the old sailors, I expect. I wonder what it feels like to be drowned? THE LAST POST The bugler sent a call of high romance— 'Lights out! Lights out!" to the deserted square. On the thin brazen notes he threw a prayer: God, if it's this for me next time in France, O spare the phantom bugle as I lie Dead in the gas and smoke and roar of guns, INDEX Names of Authors are in Capitals. Titles of Poems are in Italics. ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES, Xxiv, CAMPBELL, JOSEPH, 165-166 CHESTERTON, G. K., xxiii, 110- DUNSANY, EDWARD LORD, 133- 136 Dust, 198 Dying-Swan, The, 82 Epilogue, 161 Epitaph, 42 Epitaph, An, 107 Evening Clouds, 214 Fifty Faggots, 137 179 FLINT, F. S., 205-206 GEORGIANS, THE, Xi, xxiii- Germany, To, 225 GIBSON, W. W., xxiii, xxv, GILBERT, W. S., xiv Going and Staying, 4 GRAVES, ROBERT, Xxiii, 225- 229 Great Breath, The, 76 HARDY, THOMAS, xvi, 3-4 "Herod," Fragment from, 78 HODGSON, RALPH, Xxiii, XXV, 139-144 HOPPER, NORA, 97 House that Was, The, 80 I am the Mountainy Singer, I Hear an Army, 171 I Shall not Die for Thee, 40 If I Should Ever Grow Rich, Imagination, 26 In the Mile End Road, 42 Invictus, 10 "Is Love, then, so simple," 215 JACKSON, HOLBROOK, XIV-XV KETTLE, T. M., 149-150 Lake Isle of Innisfree, The, 53 Last Post, The, 229 LAWRENCE, D. H., xxiii, 179- 181 LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS, 213-214 LESLIE, SHANE, 183-184 |