Poems by Isaac Rosenberg
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
POEMS BY
ISAAC ROSENBERG
SONGS IN CAPTIVITY
By R. H. Sauter
BALLAD OF THE “ROYAL ANN”
By Crosbie Garston
DOWN HERE THE HAWTHORN
By Thomas Moult
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
ISAAC ROSENBERG.
Isaac Rosenberg
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CONTENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR
I
II
PERSONS
MOSES
POEMS FROM CAMP AND TRENCH
DAUGHTERS OF WAR
ON RECEIVING THE FIRST NEWS OF THE WAR
SPRING, 1916
THE TROOP SHIP
MARCHING
BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES
KILLED IN ACTION
RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES
THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE
HOME-THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE
THE IMMORTALS
LOUSE HUNTING
GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE
SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE JEW
THE DYING SOLDIER
DEAD MAN’S DUMP
IN WAR
THE DEAD HEROES
FRAGMENTS OF “THE UNICORN”
EARLIER POEMS
EXPRESSION
FROM “NIGHT AND DAY”
II
SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT
FAR AWAY
SPRING
SONG
HEART’S FIRST WORD. I.
HEARTS FIRST WORD. II.
LADY, YOU ARE MY GOD
IF YOU ARE FIRE
IN THE UNDERWORLD
O, IN A WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN
A GIRL’S THOUGHTS
A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL
TESS
THE NUN
IN PICCADILLY
A MOOD
FIRST FRUIT
A CARELESS HEART
DAWN
AT NIGHT
CREATION
OF ANY OLD MAN
THE ONE LOST
WEDDED
DON JUAN’S SONG
ON A LADY SINGING
BEAUTY
A QUESTION
CHAGRIN
THE BLIND GOD
THE FEMALE GOD
GOD
SLEEP
MY DAYS
