"And we talked of girls, and dropping bombs on Rome, And thought of the quiet dead and the loud celebrities Exhorting …"

"So we must say Goodbye, my darling, And go, as lovers go, for ever; Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels And ma…"

"All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead."

"Who is it climbs the summit of the road? Only the beggar bumming his dark load. Who was it cried to see the falling s…"

"The dwarf barefooted, chanting Behind the oxen by the lake, Stepping lightly and lazily among the thorntrees Dusky an…"

"It is only when death releases the true poet from the embarrassing condition of being at once immortal and alive in t…"

"He was a poet of great power, who described the loneliness of military life in the early Forties with unique eloquenc…"

"Sing thy armes (Bellona) and the man's Whose mighty deeds out-did great Tamberlan's."

"Wild mares' milk nurst him on the mountaines' gorse, Which gave him strength and stomach like a horse; Goats' flesh m…"

"Thy immortality Neptune thou must resigne, if I come thither: One sea may not containe us both together."