When I Love

"I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles flickered I knelt until the floor creaked I asked about Mohammed and Christ Oh Jerusalem"

"1 Friends The old word is dead. The old books are dead. Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead. Dead is the mind that led to defeat."

"O pupils of Gaza... Teach us... A little of what you have For we have forgotten... Teach us... To be men For we have men... dough they become.."

"In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, It"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"