Destroyers and Other Verses

Destroyers and Other Verses by Henry Head

Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1919

To Her without whose touch the strings would have been mute

• 1914-1918
  • I Cannot Stand and Wait
  • Homing Wings
  • Paris. April, 1916
  • The Price
  • Destroyers
  • Died of His Wounds
  • Epiphany
  • To Courage, Seated
  • Elan Vital
  • Pegasus

• Seedtime and Harvest
  • In the Beginning God Created Man
  • Above the Church, Above the Clock
  • I Am Loved By Little Children
  • When the Copse is Grey With Bud
  • Long Ago I Used To Pray
  • Within My Arms My Lord Became a Little Child
  • No Longer, When the Cold and Sterile Moon
  • To Her There Came At Dawn, As She Lay Still
  • The First Fruits of A Pregnant Soul’s Increase
  • Sleep, My Darling, Naught Can Harm Thee
  • A Sparkling Coldness in the Morning Air

• Sun and Shower
  • I Have Wandered Round an Empire
  • In My Copse a Blackbird Whistles
  • About an Upland Meadow
  • Grey Flowed the River, High up in the Sky
  • Last Night There Came a Dream that it was Day
  • Would That You Might Bear Me Away
  • I Rode In Gathering Twilight
  • Deep Within Me Springs a Fountain
  • Deep Runs a Silent Music
  • High Upon the Hill You Slumber
  • Hid From Sight of Pasture Lands
  • Willows Are White as Breath Upon Silver
  • I Gallop, I Gallop Along
  • A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light

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