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View Quote Sing on, with hymns uproarious,Ye humble and aloof,Look up! and oh how gloriousHe has restored the roof!

View Quote "Hymn", from Mount Zion (1931).

View Quote Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!It isn't fit for humans now,There isn't grass to graze a cow.Swarm over, Death!

View Quote "Slough" line 1, from Continual Dew (1937).

View Quote He sipped at a weak hock and seltzerAs he gazed at the London skiesThrough the Nottingham lace of the curtainsOr was it his bees-winged eyes?

View Quote "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" line 1, from Continual Dew.

View Quote Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.Spare their women for Thy Sake,And if that is not too easy,We will pardon Thy Mistake.But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be,Don't let anyone bomb me.

View Quote "In Westminster Abbey" line 1, from Old Lights for New Chancels (1940).

View Quote He would have liked to say goodbye,Shake hands with many friends.In Highgate now his finger-bonesStick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,Say, "Save his soul and pray."You ask me to believe You andI only see decay.

View Quote "On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" line 25, from Old Lights for New Chancels.

View Quote Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,What strenuous singles we played after tea,We in the tournament — you against me!

View Quote "A Subaltern's Love-song" line 1, from New Bats in Old Belfries (1945).

View Quote We sat in the car park till twenty to oneAnd now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.

View Quote "A Subaltern's Love-song" line 43.

View Quote Stony seaboard, far and foreign,Stony hills poured over space,Stony outcrop of the Burren,Stones in every fertile place.

View Quote "In Ireland with Emily" from New Bats in Old Belfries. As beefy ATSWithout their hatsCome shooting through the bridge? The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm,Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.

View Quote Oh shall I see the Thames again?The prow-promoted gems again,As beefy ATSWithout their hatsCome shooting through the bridge?And "cheerioh" and "cheeri-bye"Across the waste of waters die,And low the mists of evening lieAnd lightly skims the midge.

View Quote "Henley-on-Thames", from New Bats in Old Belfries.

View Quote No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his armConfirm the message. His wife stands timidly by.The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm,Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.

View Quote "Devonshire Street W.1" line 1, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954).

View Quote And behind their frail partitionsBusiness women lie and soak,Seeing through the draughty skylightFlying clouds and railway smoke.Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones,Lap your loneliness in heat,All too soon the tiny breakfast,Trolley-bus and windy street!

View Quote "Business Girls" line 13, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums. In the licorice fields at PontefractMy love and I did meetAnd many a burdened licorice bushWas blooming round our feet

View Quote But I'm dying now and done for,What on earth was all the fun for?I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

View Quote "Sun and Fun — Song of a Night-club Proprietress", from A Few Late Chrysanthemums.

View Quote In the licorice fields at PontefractMy love and I did meetAnd many a burdened licorice bushWas blooming round our feet;Red hair she had and golden skin,Her sulky lips were shaped for sin,Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'dThe strongest legs in Pontefract.

View Quote "The Licorice Fields at Pontefract" from A Few Late Chrysanthemums. I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky.

View Quote Safe were those evenings of the pre-war worldWhen firelight shone on green linoleum,I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky,Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars.

View Quote Summoned By Bells (1960).

View Quote It's strange that those we miss the mostAre those we take for granted.

View Quote "The Hon. Sec." line 39, from High and Low (1966).

View Quote I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.

View Quote "Executive" line 1, from A Nip in the Air (1974).