OF ENGLISH SONNETS LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS BEAUTY AND THE HUNTER WHERE lurks the shining quarry, swift and shy, In what dim forests of the soul, where call With what gold nets, what silver-pointed spears OF ENGLISH SONNETS THE HON. MAURICE BARING ΛΕΙΡΙΟΕΣΣΑ ΚΑΛΥΞ (THE HEART OF THE LILY) SHE listened to the music of the spheres; We thought she did not hear our happy strings; And all too late we knew those stars were tears. She in herself, as lonely lilies fold e с Shielded her passion and remained afar OF ENGLISH SONNETS RUPERT BROOKE THE SOLDIER IF I should die, think only this of me: In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. |