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 ...
'Cry from the thicket my heart's bird!'The other birds woke all around;Rising with toot and howl they stirredTheir plumage, broke ...
On pay-day nights, neck-full with beer,Old soldiers stumbling homeward here,Homeward (still dazzled by the sparkLove kindled in some alley dark)Young ...
Restless and hot two children lay Plagued with uneasy dreams,Each wandered lonely through false day A twilight torn with screams.True to the ...
"Come, surly fellow, come! A song!" What, madmen? Sing to you?Choose from the clouded tales of wrong And terror I bring to ...
Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day Of five damned days and nights, Five sleepless ...
A simple nosegay! Was that much to ask? (Winter still nagged, with scarce a bud yet showing.) He loved her ...
NEAR Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, ...
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
A purple whale Proudly sweeps his tail Towards Nineveh; Glassy green Surges between A mile of roaring sea. "O town ...
Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That ...
(For D. C. T., Killed at Fricourt, March, 1916) Yet once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: ...
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