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 73
... sail goes round , And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits , The white owl in the belfry sits . II When merry milkmaids click the latch , And rarely smells the new - mown hay , And the cock hath sung beneath ...
... sail goes round , And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits , The white owl in the belfry sits . II When merry milkmaids click the latch , And rarely smells the new - mown hay , And the cock hath sung beneath ...
Page 146
... sail , To a small tobacco - pipe mast ; one said , who saw them go , And every one said , " O won't they be soon upset , you know ! For the sky is dark , and the voyage is long , And happen what may , it's extremely wrong In a Sieve to sail ...
... sail , To a small tobacco - pipe mast ; one said , who saw them go , And every one said , " O won't they be soon upset , you know ! For the sky is dark , and the voyage is long , And happen what may , it's extremely wrong In a Sieve to sail ...
Page 160
... sail upon the sea ? " Be it wind , be it wet , be it hail , be it sleet Our ship must sail the foam ; The king's daughter o ' Noroway , " Tis we must fetch her home . " They hoisted their sails on Monenday morn With all the speed they ...
... sail upon the sea ? " Be it wind , be it wet , be it hail , be it sleet Our ship must sail the foam ; The king's daughter o ' Noroway , " Tis we must fetch her home . " They hoisted their sails on Monenday morn With all the speed they ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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