The Wild Knight and Other Poems


 * By the Babe Unborn
 * The World’s Lover
 * The Skeleton
 * A Chord of Colour
 * The Happy Man
 * The Unpardonable Sin
 * A Novelty
 * Ultimate
 * The Donkey
 * The Beatific Vision
 * The Hope of the Streets
 * Ecclesiastes
 * Song of the Children
 * The Fish
 * Gold Leaves
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill a Certain Evening
 * A Man and His Image
 * The Mariner
 * The Triumph of Man
 * Cyclopean
 * Joseph
 * Modern Elfland
 * Eternities
 * A Christmas Carol
 * Alone
 * King’s Cross Station
 * The Human Tree
 * To Them That Mourn
 * The Outlaw
 * Behind
 * The End of Fear
 * The Holy of Holies
 * The Mirror of Madmen
 * E. C. B.
 * The Desecraters
 * An Alliance
 * The Ancient of Days
 * The Last Masquerade
 * The Earth’s Shame
 * Vanity
 * The Lamp Post
 * The Pessimist
 * A Fairy Tale
 * A Portrait
 * Femina Contra Mundum
 * To a Certain Nation
 * The Praise of Dust
 * The Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon
 * ‘Vulgarised'
 * The Ballad of God-Makers
 * At Night
 * The Woodcutter
 * Art Colours
 * The Two Women
 * The Wild Knight


 * Another tattered rhymster in the ring,
 * With but the old plea to the sneering schools,
 * That on him too, some secret night in spring
 * Came the old frenzy of a hundred fools


 * To make some thing: the old want dark and deep,
 * The thirst of men, the hunger of the stars,
 * Since first it tinged even the Eternal's sleep,
 * With monstrous dreams of trees and towns and mars.


 * When all He made for the first time He saw,
 * Scattering stars as misers shake their pelf.
 * Then in the last strange wrath broke His own law,
 * And made a graven image of Himself.