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William Morris
1834 - 1896
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A Death Song
What cometh here from west to east awending? / And who are these, the marchers stern and slow? / We bear the message that the rich are sending
A Garden By The Sea
I know a little garden-close, / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might
A Good Knight In Prison
SIR GUY, . / This castle where I dwell, it stands / A long way off from Christian lands,
Agnes And The Hill-Man. Translated From The Danish
Agnes went through the meadows a-weeping, / . / There stood the hill-man heed thereof keeping.
All For The Cause
Hear a word, a word in season, / for the day is drawing nigh, / When the Cause shall call upon us,
Another For The Briar-Rose
O treacherous scent, O thorny sight, / O tangle of world's wrong and right, / What art thou 'gainst my armour's gleam
Concerning Geffray Teste Noire
And if you meet the Canon of Chimay, / As going to Ortaise you well may do, / Greet him from John of Castel Neuf, and say
Down Among The Dead Men
Come, comrades, come, your glasses clink; / Up with your hands a health to drink, / The health of all that workers be,
Drawing Near The Light
Lo, when we wade the tangled wood, / In haste and hurry to be there, / Nought seem its leaves and blossoms good,
Earth The Healer, Earth The Keeper
So swift the hours are moving / Unto the time un-proved: / Farewell my love unloving,
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