dots-menu
×

Home  »  The Book of Sorrow  »  Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939)

Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

Lieut. Warneford, V.C.

Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939)

(Iliad, xvi. 676–83)

WHOM the gods loved they gave in youth’s first flower

One infinite hour of glory. That same hour,

Before a leaf droops from the laurel, come

Winged Death and Sleep to bear Sarpedon home.