Thoughts of New England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
IAt twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages A spirited cross of romantic and grand,All templars and minstrels and ladies and ...
'Tis glorious morning everywhere Save where the alleys lie-I see the fleecy steam jets bid "Good morning" to the sky.The gullies of ...
The sins of Youth are hardly sins, So frank they are and free.'T is but when Middle-age begins We need morality.Ah, pause ...
what more can man desire?Always, he woke in those daysWith a sense of treasure,His heart a gayer glowThan his window ...
In that same moment when at Kohath's gate Paused the bright phantom--chariot,--to the eye Of Sethos, riding moodily alone, Appeared ...
Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worthIn failing to wax wrath about ...
You are as young, O lady mine, As ere you were in olden days,Your lips are red, your blue eyes ...
Autumn: the year breathes dully towards its death,beside its dying sacrificial fire;the dim world's middle-age of vain desireis strangely troubled, ...
A middle class fortress in which to hide! Draw down the curtain as if saying No, While noon's ablaze, ablaze ...
Here's our story, page by page, Happy youth and middle-age, Smile and tear-drop, weal and woe Such as all who ...
1 The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. I ...
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