Robert Laurence Binyon Poems

Blue noon shines o'er the sea;
Waves break starry on the sand;
Lights and sounds and scents come free
On the radiant air of the land.
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Naked night; black elms, pallid and streaming sky!
Alone with the passion of the Wind,
In a hollow of stormy sound lost and alone am I,
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Spiritual colour in dimness angel--high,
The very Light made flesh! It is as though
Blood throbbed and blanched and fired to feel the flow
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I
Victory! Was that proud word once so dear?
Are difficulty, patience, effort hard
As danger's edge, disputing yard by yard
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Words, breathing words, full--murmuring syllables!
How you enrich the thoughts that dwell in you
With far--brought perfume, that no meaning tells
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When life begins anew,
And Youth, from gathering flowers,
From vague delights, rapt musings, twilight hours,
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When all the world is hidden
And there is only you,
When bosom beats to bosom
As if the heart broke through,
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When I am only I,
The secret battle--ground
Of world and will, wherein
Self is so strictly bound,
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Do kings put faith in fortressed walls, and bar
Their cities' gates, as strong to keep out war?
The constancy of friends is stronger far.
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Beautifully dies the year.
Silence sleeps upon the mere:
Yellow leaves float on it, stilly
As, in June, the opened lily.
Brushing o'er the frosty ...
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