Author: John Mccrae

If night should come and find me at my toil, When all Life’s day I had, tho’ faintly, wrought, And […]

O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear Above their heads the legions pressing on: (These fought their fight […]

Here all the day she swings from tide to tide, Here all night long she tugs a rusted chain, A […]

Beneath her window in the fragrant night I half forget how truant years have flown Since I looked up to […]

There stands a hostel by a travelled way; Life is the road and Death the worthy host; Each guest he […]

I saw a King, who spent his life to weave Into a nation all his great heart thought, Unsatisfied until […]

“Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine.” I left, to earth, a little maiden fair, With locks of […]

“. . . defeated, with great loss.” Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame Of them that flee, […]

I saw two sowers in Life’s field at morn, To whom came one in angel guise and said, “Is it […]

Scarlet coats, and crash o’ the band, The grey of a pauper’s gown, A soldier’s grave in Zululand, And a […]

Amid my books I lived the hurrying years, Disdaining kinship with my fellow man; Alike to me were human smiles […]

My lover died a century ago, Her dear heart stricken by my sland’rous breath, Wherefore the Gods forbade that I […]

One spake amid the nations, “Let us cease From darkening with strife the fair World’s light, We who are great […]

-1908 Of old, like Helen, guerdon of the strong Like Helen fair, like Helen light of word, “The spoils unto […]

I Sleep, little eyes That brim with childish tears amid thy play, Be comforted! No grief of night can weigh […]

The earth grows white with harvest; all day long The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves Her web of silence […]

An uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers, Where every beam that broke the leaden sky Lit other hills with fairer […]

Cometh the night. The wind falls low, The trees swing slowly to and fro: Around the church the headstones grey […]

“What I spent I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.” But yesterday the tourney, all […]

I saw a city filled with lust and shame, Where men, like wolves, slunk through the grim half-light; And sudden, […]