 These homes, this valley spread below me here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century after century, held these farms, And, looking out to watch...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4111915Full view - About this book
 | John Masefield - 1914 - 138 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest not yet won, the empty bin, The friendly horses taken from the stalls, The fallow on the... | |
 | John Masefield - 1914 - 160 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...pressing nigh. And knew, as we know, that the message Death, like a miser getting in his rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1915 - 312 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men. Who, century...and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh. No wonder then, that their inhabitants Sadly rose and left the well loved Downs And so, by ship to... | |
 | John Masefield - 1916 - 328 pages
...century, held these farms And, looking out to watch the changing sky, Heard, as we hear, the rumors and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh....rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest not yet won, the empty bin, The friendly horses taken from the stalls, The fallow on the... | |
 | Literature - 1916 - 884 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, pastspeaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...to watch the changing sky, Heard, as we hear, the rumors and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh. And knew, as we know, that the message meant... | |
 | John Masefield - English poetry - 1916 - 332 pages
...here, .The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...to watch the changing sky, Heard, as we hear, the rumors and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh. And knew, as we know, that the message meant... | |
 | John Masefield - 1917 - 174 pages
...The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past-speaking deaiTo unknown generations of dead men, Who, century after...pressing nigh. And knew, as we know, that the message here, Death, like a miser getting in his rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The... | |
 | John Masefield - 1918 - 556 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest not yet won, the empty bin, The friendly horses taken from the stalls, The fallow on the... | |
 | John Masefield - English literature - 1918 - 550 pages
...here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest not yet won, the empty bin, The friendly horses taken from the stalls, The fallow on the... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - Library science - 1918 - 354 pages
...here, The rooks, the tUted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things, past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century...rent, And no new stones laid where the trackway ends. The harvest not yet won, the empty bin, The friendly horses taken from the stalls, The fallow on the... | |
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