Tobacco (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When tobacco came, When Raleigh did first bring inThe unfabled herb, the plant of peace, the kingOf comfort bringers, then ...
When tobacco came, When Raleigh did first bring inThe unfabled herb, the plant of peace, the kingOf comfort bringers, then ...
One would remember stillMeadows and low hillLaventie was, as to the line and elm rowGrowing through green strength wounded, as ...
The long night, the short sleep, and La Gorgues to wander,So be the Fates were kind and our Commander;With a ...
So the last poem is laid flat in its place,And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my faceElizabethans and night-working ...
Dawn comes up on London,And night's undone.Stars are routedAnd street lamps outed.Sodden great clouds begin sail againLike all-night anchored galleons ...
Suddenly into the still air burst thuddingAnd thudding and cold fear possessed me all,On the gray slopes there, where Winter ...
Now, youth, the hour of thy dread passion comes;Thy lovely things must all be laid away;And thou, as others, must ...
The hoe scrapes earth as fine in grain as sand,I like the swirl of it and the swing in the ...
Soft rain beats upon my windowsHardly hammeringBut by the great gusts guessed further offUp by the bare moor and brambly ...
The ordered curly and plain cabbagesAre all set out like school-children in rows;In six short weeks shall these no longer ...
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