Viewpoint: An Anthology of PoetryRobin Skelton |
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... green , owl - white , heart - red ; The Easter bells turn cart - wheels in the spire : Man , Jack , they clap ; wrong , right ; quick , dead , quick , dead . BRIAN GILE Celia upon her Sparrow Tell me not of joy : there's none Now my ...
... green , owl - white , heart - red ; The Easter bells turn cart - wheels in the spire : Man , Jack , they clap ; wrong , right ; quick , dead , quick , dead . BRIAN GILE Celia upon her Sparrow Tell me not of joy : there's none Now my ...
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... Green her visions often fled , And rattling coaches lumbered in her head ; Till hopes , grown weary with too long delay , Caught the green sicknesss and declined away , And beauty , like a garment worse for wear , Fled her pale cheek ...
... Green her visions often fled , And rattling coaches lumbered in her head ; Till hopes , grown weary with too long delay , Caught the green sicknesss and declined away , And beauty , like a garment worse for wear , Fled her pale cheek ...
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... green light , As under a green sea , I saw him drowning . In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me , guttering , choking , drowning . If in some smothering dreams , you too could pace Behind the waggon that we flung ...
... green light , As under a green sea , I saw him drowning . In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me , guttering , choking , drowning . If in some smothering dreams , you too could pace Behind the waggon that we flung ...
Contents
An Elegy on the Death | 112 |
The Host of the Air W B Yeats | 118 |
A Subalterns Love Song John Betjeman | 125 |
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battle beauty bird body Browning close coming dark dead Death dogs dreams Edited Edward English eyes face fair fear feel field fire five Flowers friends give green grey grow Hague hair hand head hear heard heart hope John kind King land laughs leave light lives look Lord Martin MICHIGAN mind Miss moon morning never night notes Notice o'er once passed past played poem poet poetry Reading Robert round seemed Siegfried Sassoon sing sleep song soon sound Sparrow Squire stand stood summer Swan sweet tell thee there's things Thomas thought Three Thrush took trees turned twas watch weary wild wind young