Back To The Land (Cyril Bretherton Poems)
The wintry days are with us still; The roads are deep in liquid dirt; The rain is wet, the ...
The wintry days are with us still; The roads are deep in liquid dirt; The rain is wet, the ...
"The mill goes toiling slowly around With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly ...
Ven der Kaiser his var bugles blow, Und say: "Fritz, to de front you must go," Den ...
When yesterday I went to see friends - (Watching their patient faces in a rowI want to give each boy ...
'Lo, Ginger . . . 'lo, Mike . . .Where you been this long whileSince you an' me was in ...
'When this 'ere war is done (says Dan) an' all the fighting's through,There's some will pal with Fritz again as ...
The British guns have spoken And Bill may lose his crown, The German line is broken, ...
Hold back, sub-editor! You march and planSo much more swiftly than the soldiers can.They take a trench or two, a ...
So here's another of your wicked wiles-A rocket which can whizz four hundred miles?Do not suppose, if it could travel ...
Fire away, Fritz,But look over your shoulder;Fire away, Fritz,For you won't grow much older.Blow us to bits,But your feet will ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But ...
AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
I wonder 'oo and wot 'e was, That 'Un I got so slick. I couldn't see 'is face because The ...
You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam; You watch it cloud, then settle amber clear; You ...
'FALL in! Now get a move on.' (Curse the rain.) We splash away along the straggling village, Out to the ...
I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, -- we was in the know, "Over ...
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
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