Representative Poetry Online

Poems

1By all the glories of the day,

2And the cool evening’s benison:

3By the last sunset touch that lay

4Upon the hills when day was done:

5By beauty lavishly outpoured,

6And blessings carelessly received,

7By all the days that I have lived,

8Make me a soldier, Lord.

9By all of all men’s hopes and fears,

10And all the wonders poets sing,

11The laughter of unclouded years,

12And every sad and lovely thing:

13By the romantic ages stored

14With high endeavour that was his,

15By all his mad catastrophes,

16Make me a man, O Lord.

17I, that on my familiar hill

18Saw with uncomprehending eyes

19A hundred of Thy sunsets spill

20Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice,

21Ere the sun swings his noonday sword

22Must say good-bye to all of this: --

23By all delights that I shall miss,

24Help me to die, O Lord.