Viewpoint: An Anthology of PoetryRobin Skelton |
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... seemed , simply , that death , so calm , So small , lay there as lightly as the bird : It seemed an easy thing to understand . Well , since the ground was frozen fast , He fed the fire . Dead bones and feathers , flesh and blood : These ...
... seemed , simply , that death , so calm , So small , lay there as lightly as the bird : It seemed an easy thing to understand . Well , since the ground was frozen fast , He fed the fire . Dead bones and feathers , flesh and blood : These ...
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... Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full - hearted evensong Of joy illimited ; An aged thrush , frail , gaunt , and small , In blast - beruffled plume , Had chosen thus to fling his soul ...
... Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full - hearted evensong Of joy illimited ; An aged thrush , frail , gaunt , and small , In blast - beruffled plume , Had chosen thus to fling his soul ...
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... seemed ready to Run up those rugged limbs , The lichen ready To crystallize its feathery formations Along these solid branches . If not upon this flower - sprinkled mound , Then Mrs Hague stood Pressed in the narrow framework of her ...
... seemed ready to Run up those rugged limbs , The lichen ready To crystallize its feathery formations Along these solid branches . If not upon this flower - sprinkled mound , Then Mrs Hague stood Pressed in the narrow framework of her ...
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