William Watson Poems

As some most pure and noble face,
Seen in the thronged and hurrying street,
Sheds o'er the world a sudden grace,
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So, being risen, the Prince in brief while went
Forth to the market-place, where babblement
Of them that bought and them that sold was one
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Behold life builded as a goodly house
And grown a mansion ruinous
With winter blowing through its crumbling walls!
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But Sleep, who makes a mist about the sense,
Doth ope the eyelids of the soul, and thence
Lifteth a heavier cloud than that whereby
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Friend, in whose friendship I am twice well-starred,
A debt not time may cancel is your due;
For was it not your praise that earliest drew,
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Unto the Lady of The Nook
Fly, tiny book.
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The men who man our batteries,
The men who serve our guns,
They need not honeyed flatteries,
For they are Britain's sons!
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Inhospitably hast thou entertained,
O Poet, us the bidden to thy board,
Whom in mid-feast, and while our thousand mouths
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Scentless flow'rs I bring thee-yet
In thy bosom be they set;
In thy bosom each one grows
Fragrant beyond any rose.
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Seabird, elemental sprite,
Moulded of the sun and spray-
Raven, dreary flake of night
Drifting in the eye of day-
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