| In Flanders Fields (1915) | - In Flanders fields the poppies blow
- Between the crosses, row on row,
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| The Anxious Dead (1917) | - O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
- Above their heads the legions pressing on:
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| The Warrior (1907) | - He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days,
- But with the night his little lamp-lit room
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| Isandlwana (1910) | - Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band,
- The grey of a pauper's gown,
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| The Unconquered Dead (1906) | - Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
- Of them that flee, of them that basely yield;
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| The Captain (1913) | - Here all the day she swings from tide to tide,
- Here all night long she tugs a rusted chain,
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| The Song of the Derelict (1898) | - Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes
- (I scorn your beguiling, O sea!)
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| Quebec (1908) | - Of old, like Helen, guerdon of the strong -- -
- Like Helen fair, like Helen light of word, -- -
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| Then and Now (1896) | - Beneath her window in the fragrant night
- I half forget how truant years have flown
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| Unsolved (1895) | - Amid my books I lived the hurrying years,
- Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;
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| The Hope of My Heart (1894) | - I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,
- With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light;
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| Penance (1896) | - My lover died a century ago,
- Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath,
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| Slumber Songs (1897) | - Sleep, little eyes
- That brim with childish tears amid thy play,
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| The Oldest Drama (1907) | - Immortal story that no mother's heart
- Ev'n yet can read, nor feel the biting pain
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| Recompense (1896) | - I saw two sowers in Life's field at morn,
- To whom came one in angel guise and said,
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| Mine Host (1897) | - There stands a hostel by a travelled way;
- Life is the road and Death the worthy host;
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| Equality (1898) | - I saw a King, who spent his life to weave
- Into a nation all his great heart thought,
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| Anarchy (1897) | - I saw a city filled with lust and shame,
- Where men, like wolves, slunk through the grim half-light;
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| Disarmament (1899) | - One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
- From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
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| The Dead Master (1913) | - Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime:
- To-day around him surges from the silences of Time
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| The Harvest of the Sea (1898) | - The earth grows white with harvest; all day long
- The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves
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| The Dying of Pere Pierre (1904) | - "Nay, grieve not that ye can no honour give
- To these poor bones that presently must be
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| Eventide (1895) | - The day is past and the toilers cease;
- The land grows dim 'mid the shadows grey,
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| Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit" (1904) | - But yesterday the tourney, all the eager joy of life,
- The waving of the banners, and the rattle of the spears,
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| A Song of Comfort (1894) | - Thro' May time blossoms, with whisper low,
- The soft wind sang to the dead below:
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| The Pilgrims (1905) | - An uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers,
- Where every beam that broke the leaden sky
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| The Shadow of the Cross (1894) | - At the drowsy dusk when the shadows creep
- From the golden west, where the sunbeams sleep,
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| The Night Cometh (1913) | - Cometh the night. The wind falls low,
- The trees swing slowly to and fro:
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| In Due Season (1897) | - If night should come and find me at my toil,
- When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
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