For two years you went Through all the worst of it, Men fell around you, but you did not fall. On the Somme when the air was a sea Of contesting flashes and clouds of smoke,...
There is a far unfading city Where bright immortal people are; Remote from hollow shame and pity, Their portals frame no guiding star But blightless pleasure's moteless rays...
I vaguely wondered what you were about, But never wrote when you had gone away; Assumed you better, quenched the uneasy doubt You might need faces, or have things to say....
Beloved, when my heart's awake to God And all the world becomes His testimony, In you I most do see, in your brave spirit, Erect and certain, flashing deeds of light,...
The leaves fall gently on the grass, And all the willow trees, and poplar trees, and elder trees That bend above her where she sleeps, O all the willow trees, the willow trees Breathe sighs upon her tomb....
Agatha, tell me, does thy heart not ache, Plunged in this squalid city's filthy sea, For another ocean where the splendours break Blue, clear, and deep as is virginity....