The Picture Book (Robert Graves Poems)
When I was not quite five years old I first saw the blue picture book,And Fraulein Spitzenburger toldStories that sent me ...
When I was not quite five years old I first saw the blue picture book,And Fraulein Spitzenburger toldStories that sent me ...
Now I begin to know at last,These nights when I sit down to rhyme,The form and measure of that vastGod ...
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,The track aches only when the rain reminds.The one-legged man forgets his leg of ...
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,The King of Persia walked: ...
Here's flowery taffeta for Mary's new gown: Here's black velvet, all the rage, for Dick's birthday coat.Pearly buttons for you, Mary, ...
Dust in a cloud, blinding weather, Drums that rattle and roar!A mother and daughter stood together Beside their cottage door."Mother, the heavens ...
Like a lizard in the sun, though not scuttlingWhen men approach, this wretch, this thing of rage,Scowls and sits rhyming ...
NEAR Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, ...
The cruel Moon hangs out of reach Up above the shadowy beech. Her face is stupid, but her eye Is ...
You young friskies who today Jump and fight in Father's hay With bows and arrows and wooden spears, Playing at ...
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose, How ...
It doesn't matter what's the cause, What wrong they say we're righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When ...
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