Viewpoint: An Anthology of PoetryRobin Skelton |
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... turned ( since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you , but I ) And seemed as they would ask me , if they durst How such a glance came there ; so , not the first Are you to turn and ask thus . Sir , ' twas not Her husband's ...
... turned ( since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you , but I ) And seemed as they would ask me , if they durst How such a glance came there ; so , not the first Are you to turn and ask thus . Sir , ' twas not Her husband's ...
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... turned afraid Of love and me and all things human ; Like the shut of a winter's day . - Her smile went out , and ' twasn't a woman- More like a little frightened fay . One night , in the Fall , she runned away . ' Out ' mong the sheep ...
... turned afraid Of love and me and all things human ; Like the shut of a winter's day . - Her smile went out , and ' twasn't a woman- More like a little frightened fay . One night , in the Fall , she runned away . ' Out ' mong the sheep ...
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... turned one to stone ( Gk gorgos terrible ) lowers looks threatening ( often spelt ' lours ' ) Heaven Phrase after phrase here maliciously echoes the more conventional type of religious talk - the kind preserved for us in Victorian hymns ...
... turned one to stone ( Gk gorgos terrible ) lowers looks threatening ( often spelt ' lours ' ) Heaven Phrase after phrase here maliciously echoes the more conventional type of religious talk - the kind preserved for us in Victorian hymns ...
Contents
An Elegy on the Death | 112 |
The Host of the Air W B Yeats | 118 |
A Subalterns Love Song John Betjeman | 125 |
Copyright | |
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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