Occupation: Poet Birth: August 3, 1887 Death: April 23, 1915
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimit….
Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak..
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpen….
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early..
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if ….
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great..
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold..
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a rich….
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years..
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on..
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry..
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you..
Youth is stranger than fiction..
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate..
There's little comfort in the wise.
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have..
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!.
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink..
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life th….
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness..