Poems, 1914-1919

<h3><SPAN name="GREECE" id="GREECE"></SPAN>GREECE</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The</span> Spring had scattered poppies on the land,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The Spring was saying her secret to the breeze;<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the translucent shallows of green seas,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A fisherman, a trident in his hand,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Was casting shining fishes to the sand,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And wading in the water to his knees;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And still I hear the crickets and the bees,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The hidden hoofs, the ringing saraband.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I see the temples above the breaking foam,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The pillars pink as dawn in the silver dust;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The Parthenon at sunset large and dim,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Smouldering against the purple mountain’s crust;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And far away on the ocean’s blazing rim,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The phantom ship that brought Ulysses home.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_034" id="page_034"></SPAN>{34}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />