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 55
... sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land . Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means , Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea ...
... sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land . Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means , Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea ...
Page 229
... sleeping , murmur in their sleep , And closer round their breasts the ivy clings , Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep . II And how beguile you ? Death has no respose Warmer and deeper than that Orient sand Which hides the beauty ...
... sleeping , murmur in their sleep , And closer round their breasts the ivy clings , Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep . II And how beguile you ? Death has no respose Warmer and deeper than that Orient sand Which hides the beauty ...
Page 242
... sleep : If there's wine to be got we'll drink it deep , But sleep is gone for tonight , But sleep is gone for tonight . " " Are you cold too , poor Pleiads , This frosty night ? " " Yes , and so are the Hyads : See 242.
... sleep : If there's wine to be got we'll drink it deep , But sleep is gone for tonight , But sleep is gone for tonight . " " Are you cold too , poor Pleiads , This frosty night ? " " Yes , and so are the Hyads : See 242.
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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