The Golden Journey: Poems for Young PeopleLouise Bogan, William Jay Smith Reilly & Lee, 1965 - 275 pages "Fresh, delightful, and perennially new" poems written in English but in many distant lands and selected for the enjoyment of discriminating readers by two outstanding poets. Selections range from Rabindranath Tagore to Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins to Elinor Wylie. |
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Page 63
... Once in a lifetime , lovely past believing , your lucky eyes may light on such a pool . As though for many years I had been waiting , I watched in silence , till my heart was full of clear dark water , and white trees unmoving , and ...
... Once in a lifetime , lovely past believing , your lucky eyes may light on such a pool . As though for many years I had been waiting , I watched in silence , till my heart was full of clear dark water , and white trees unmoving , and ...
Page 192
... once again The hills of our own land , we too have heard Far off - Ah , que ce cor a longue haleine- The horn of Roland in the passages of Spain , The first , the second blast , the failing third , And with the third turned back and ...
... once again The hills of our own land , we too have heard Far off - Ah , que ce cor a longue haleine- The horn of Roland in the passages of Spain , The first , the second blast , the failing third , And with the third turned back and ...
Page 237
... once firm legs sink in and in ; Soon it will break down unaware , Soon it will break down unaware . At night when reddest flowers are black Those who once sat thereon come back ; Quite a row of them sitting there , Quite a row of them ...
... once firm legs sink in and in ; Soon it will break down unaware , Soon it will break down unaware . At night when reddest flowers are black Those who once sat thereon come back ; Quite a row of them sitting there , Quite a row of them ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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A. A. Milne beautiful Belloc best fits bird blow boy's chamber door cold Collected Poems Crack and Flossie dance dark dream Dylan Thomas ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS eyes fish fits a little Flossie Snail flowers Golden Journey gone grass hear heart hills James Stephens Johnnie Crack lamb land laugh LĂ©onie Adams light long thoughts look Macmillan Company merry Minnaloushe moon morning mysterious cat Nevermore night Noroway pale Poems by William poems reprinted poetry RALPH HODGSON Reprinted by permission rhymes riding ROBERT FROST roses round sail ship Sieve silver sing sleep song soup stare stars sweet T. S. Eliot thee Theodore Roethke things thoughts of youth trees W. B. YEATS W. H. Auden walk Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams William Jay Smith wind wind's wings wood X. J. Kennedy yellow youth are long