John Mccrae Long Poems

• 1. The Unconquered Dead
  “. . . defeated, with great loss.”
  
  
  Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
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• 2. The Song Of The Derelict
  Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes
  (I scorn your beguiling, O sea!)
  Ye fondle me now, but to strike me betimes.
  (A treacherous lover, the sea!)
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• 3. The Oldest Drama
  “It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
  And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad,
  Carry him to his mother. And . . . he sat on her knees till noon,
  and then died. And she went up, and laid him on the bed. . . .
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• 4. The Harvest Of The Sea
  The earth grows white with harvest; all day long
  The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves
  Her web of silence o'er the thankful song
  Of reapers bringing home the golden sheaves.
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• 5. The Captain
  1797
  
  
  Here all the day she swings from tide to tide,
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• 6. Slumber Songs
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  Sleep, little eyes
  That brim with childish tears amid thy play,
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• 7. Eventide
  The day is past and the toilers cease;
  The land grows dim 'mid the shadows grey,
  And hearts are glad, for the dark brings peace
  At the close of day.
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• 8. A Song Of Comfort
  “Sleep, weary ones, while ye may-
  Sleep, oh, sleep!”
  Eugene Field.
  
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