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The Skeleton
Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No: I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully.
- By The Babe Unborn
- The World's Lover
- The Skeleton
- A Chord of Colour
- The Happy Man
- The Unpardonable Sin
- A Novelty
- Ultimate
- The Donkey
- The Beatific Vision
- The Hope of the Streets
- Ecclesiastes
- The Song of the Children
- The Fish
- Gold Leaves
- Thou Shalt Not Kill
- A Certain Evening
- A Man and His Image
- The Mariner
- The Triumph of Man
- Cyclopean
- Joseph
- Modern Elfland
- Eternities
- A Christmas Carol
- Alone
- King's Cross Station
- The Human Tree
- To Them That Mourn
- The Outlaw
- Behind
- The End of Fear
- The Holy of Holies
- The Mirror of Madmen
- E.C.B.
- The Desecraters
- An Alliance
- The Ancient of Days
- The Last Masquerade
- The Earth's Shame
- Vanity
- The Lamp Post
- The Pessimist
- A Fairy Tale
- A Portrait
- Femina Contra Mundum
- To A Certain Nation
- The Praise of Dust
- The Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon
- Vulgarised
- The Ballad of God-Makers
- At Night
- The Wood Cutter
- Art Colours
- The Two Women
- The Wild Knight
- Good News
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