Herbert Asquith High Poems

• 1. The Bather
  THE sea-breeze beating on her brow,
  The foam asurge her shining feet,
  She stood,-a silver Victory,
  Poised high on some Athenian prow,
  ...
• 2. Venice
  IN domes of dim and ancient gold,
  In cloisters, where the lightning plays,
  Where gleam the gorgeous saints of old
  In aisles of jade and chrysoprase,
  ...
• 3. The Volunteer
  Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
  Toiling at ledgers in a city grey,
  Thinking that so his days would drift away
  With no lance broken in lifeâ??s tournament:
  ...
• 4. To A Baby Found Paddling Near The Thames
  Hail! O Baby of the May
  In the bubbling river-bed,
  Playing where the cannon play,
  With the shrapnel overhead!
  ...
• 5. Jewels: A Young Man To A Merchant
  OLD Man, your pearls are not for us,
  Your rubies die too soon:
  Have you the pearls of Sirius,
  Or opals of the moon?
  ...
• 6. War's Cataract
  In this red havoc of the patient earth,
  Though higher yet the tide of battle rise,
  Now has the hero cast away disguise,
  And out of ruin splendour comes to birth.
  ...

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