The Licorice Fields at Pontefract (John Betjeman Poem)
In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming ...
In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming ...
The last year's leaves are on the beech: The twigs are black; the cold is dry; To deeps byond the ...
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Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath ...
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THE linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air, The bee among the heather bells That hide my ...
The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor - lark in the air, The bee among the heather - bells ...
The Day that Youth had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
The day that YOUTH had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
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Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements, The window-sills were wet ...
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(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
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He thinks her little feet should pass Where dandelions star thickly grass; Her hands should lift in sunlit air Sea-wind ...
The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Circled three times above the upturned faces With a great whir of ...
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