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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: drinkwater, john Matches Found: 171 Drinkwater, John Poet's Biography 171 poems available by this author 1914-1918: THE DEAD SPEAK Poem Text First Line: In the earth, in the seas, we remember Last Line: That we may not forgive? Subject(s): World War I; First World War A CHRISTMAS NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Christ for a dream was given from the dead Last Line: And the poor christ again was with the dead. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends A DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: Sometimes youth comes to age and asks a Last Line: Of such are you; and what is youth but this? Subject(s): Epitaphs A GHOST SPEAKS ON THE STYX Poem Text First Line: I could not think that time was old Last Line: You ferryman, are one. Subject(s): Charon; Love; Styx (river) A MAN'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: There is an old woman who looks each night Last Line: But years of dread. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Lord, not for light in darkness do we pray Last Line: The deed, the deed. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology A SABBATH DAY; IN FIVE WATCHES Poem Text First Line: You were three men and women two Last Line: The quiet festival of sleep. Subject(s): Holy Family; Sabbath; Sunday A TOWN WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Beyond my window in the night Last Line: The tumult of a thousand wings. Subject(s): Towns ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Mr. Stone Last Line: The curtain falls Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AN APPEAL FOR SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: Hard here in london / I have seen Last Line: Where the pigeons pair. Subject(s): Hospitals; London AN ENTRY FOR EDMUND GOSSE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Uncut. The rare first issue.' let Last Line: We shall not find the verso blank. Subject(s): Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928) ANTAGONISTS Poem Text First Line: Green shoots, we break the morning earth Last Line: The footfall of her enemy. Subject(s): Green (color); Leaves ANTHONY CRUNDLE Poem Text First Line: Here lies the body of Last Line: Anthony crundle, r.I.P. APPROACHING ELSINORE Poem Text First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore. Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT AN EARTHWORKS Poem Text First Line: Ringed high with turf the arena lies Last Line: I will not parley with the night. AT AN INN Poem Text First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient, Last Line: When we are cold. Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians AT CAERNARVON CASTLE Poem Text First Line: What shadows walk among these fretted walls Last Line: While we a moment pause to live again %with walking shadows of heroic men AT GRAFTON Poem Text First Line: God laughed when he made grafton Last Line: The breath of bristol tide. Subject(s): Bredon Hill; Grafton, England BIRTHRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Lord rameses of egypt sighed Last Line: And little ariadne sleep. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence BLACKBIRD Poem Text First Line: He comes on chosen evenings Last Line: Those are celestial chimney-pots. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds BOBBY BLUE First Line: Sometimes I have to cross the road Last Line: I always say as I go by, %'good-morning, bobby blue' Subject(s): Police BUDS Poem Text First Line: The raining hour is done Last Line: Of that companionship. Subject(s): April; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters BURNING BUSH, SELS. First Line: And you Subject(s): Love CHALLENGE Poem Text First Line: You fools behind the panes who peer Last Line: When the storm goes through the trees. CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: If one should tell you that in such a spring Last Line: "I have been this man's familiar, and you lie." Subject(s): Lies CHARGE TO THE PLAYERS Poem Text First Line: Shades, that our town-fellows have come Last Line: This gift of song, himself a shade. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses CHORUS (1) First Line: Kinsmen, you shall behold CHORUS (2) First Line: Lonely is the man who understands CHORUS (3) First Line: You who have gone gathering CHORUS (4) First Line: The wind blows in the night CHRIST CHILD AT CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Dear jesus, dear, may I come in? Subject(s): Religion CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: On christmas eve I lay abed Last Line: Dreamt of a new-born king. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CONDITION Poem Text First Line: If one to love you better came Last Line: And wear your favour on my sleeve. Subject(s): Love CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: The shadows that companion me Last Line: Walk in immortal fields of earth. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The COTSWOLD LOVE Poem Text First Line: Blue skies are over cotswold Last Line: With slyly tilted shoe. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England COTTAGE SONG Poem Text First Line: Morning and night I bring Last Line: Above my lavender. Subject(s): Country Life CROCUSES Poem Text First Line: Desires Last Line: Of ivory, purple, and gold. Subject(s): Crocuses; Desire; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters CROWNING OF DREAMING JIM First Line: Seven days he travelled DAY Poem Text First Line: Dawn is up at my window, and in the may Last Line: Come. . . . I hear the liars about the city. Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DEAR AND INCOMPARABLE First Line: Dear and incomparable DEER Poem Text First Line: Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer Last Line: Beautiful flocks of the mind. Subject(s): Deer DEFIANCE Poem Text First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes Last Line: When all is excellently done. Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism DERBYSHIRE SONG Poem Text First Line: Come loving me to darley dale. Last Line: Come darley way, come darley way. Subject(s): Love DERELICT Poem Text First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas Last Line: Shall time entomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity DISTANT MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Far now from you, dear love, I know Last Line: The cause of all that you have told. Subject(s): Music & Musicians DOMINION Poem Text First Line: I went beneath the sunny sky Last Line: And store a dream for every night. DREAMS Poem Text First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares EARTH LOVE First Line: If there should be a sound of song EGYPT AND THE CROMWELL ROAD Poem Text First Line: A beggar walked in front of me Last Line: Into the shadows and the rain. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Egypt ELIZABETH ANN Poem Text First Line: This is the tale of elizabeth ann Last Line: Give her your charity, give her your prayers. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: Come tell us, you that travel far Last Line: And spend our booty in a song. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE Poem Text First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo! Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The FAIRFORD NIGHTINGALES First Line: The nightingales at fairford sing Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales FELICITY Poem Text First Line: Felicity, come stay awhile, / and talk with me, you pretty maid' Last Line: And she was tapping on the door. FOR A GUEST ROOM Poem Text First Line: All words are said Last Line: In love alone. Subject(s): Love FOR CORIN TODAY Poem Text First Line: Old shepherd in your wattle cote Last Line: The glimmer of your lanthorn lights. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOR THEE THEY DIED First Line: For thee their pilgrim swords were tried Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FORSAKEN Poem Text First Line: The word is said, and I no more shall know Last Line: Save for a bedesman telling o'er his beads. Subject(s): Prayer; Purgatory; Soul FOUNDATIONS Poem Text First Line: Those lovers old had rare conceits Last Line: One surety that we possess. Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION First Line: Long since the sorrows of the nightingales Subject(s): World War I GARDEN First Line: Stone walls, dear trees, worn paths of every day Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening GOLD Poem Text First Line: There is a castle on a hill Last Line: Was gold, and gold, and gold. Subject(s): Castles; Gold GREATNESS PASSING BY First Line: When the high heart we magnify Subject(s): Religion HABITATION Poem Text First Line: High up in the sky there, now, you know Last Line: But we are there -- we are waiting ourselves who come. Subject(s): Cows; May (month) HARVEST MOON Poem Text First Line: Hush! Was my whisper Last Line: That harvesting. Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Moon; Seasons; Fall HARVESTING Poem Text First Line: Pale sheaves of oats, pocked by untimely rain Last Line: Uncarried on cold fields, is all my fear. Subject(s): Harvest HEED NOT THE BIDDING VOICES HISTORY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, when walls and occupation seem Last Line: And the things that they choose for history-making pass. Subject(s): History; Historians HOLINESS Poem Text First Line: If all the carts were painted gay Last Line: Till both should understand. I WANT TO KNOW First Line: I want to know why when I'm late Last Line: As much as anybody knows IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: When other beauty governs other lips Last Line: Our names, our ghosts, our immortality. Subject(s): Immortality IN LADY STREET Poem Text First Line: All day long the traffic goes Last Line: On gloucester lanes in lady street. Subject(s): London IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: I was in the woods today Last Line: And, hearing, are beatified? Subject(s): Birds; Tides INSTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: I have a place in a little garden Last Line: And the leaping of a word. Subject(s): Laurels; Rest; Solitude; Loneliness INVIOLABLE HOUR First Line: If ever you with riches should be bought INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: As pools beneath stone arches take Last Line: Make me immoderately wise. JANUARY DUSK Poem Text First Line: Austere and clad in sombre robes of grey Last Line: And all the coloured retinue of spring. Subject(s): Dusk; January LAST CONFESSIONAL Poem Text First Line: For all ill words that I have spoken Last Line: Forgive me, love, forgive me, death. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency LATE SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Though summer long delayeth Last Line: The king-bird keeps the tide. LESSON TO MY GHOST First Line: Shall it be siad that the wind's gone over LIEGEWOMAN Poem Text First Line: You may not wear immortal leaves Last Line: "the passion of him, soul and thew." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Women LOVE IN OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LOVE'S HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I know not how these men or those may take Last Line: Leans down to me and tells me everything. Subject(s): Houses; Love - Nature Of LOVE'S PERSONALITY Poem Text First Line: If I had never seen Last Line: Not greatest, but apart. Subject(s): Birth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery LOVERS TO LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Our love forsworn Last Line: The sum, yet was it signed as yours, and signed indelibly. Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Love; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity MAD TOM TATTERMAN Poem Text First Line: Old man, grey man, good man scavenger, Last Line: "flocks are whiter than the flocks that all your shepherds keep." Subject(s): Babylon; Insanity; Sleep; Madness; Mental Illness MALEDICTION First Line: Thrush, across the twilight MOONLIT APPLES Poem Text First Line: At the top of the house Last Line: On moon-washed apples of wonder. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees MORNING THANKSGIVING First Line: Thank god for sleep in the long quiet night Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving OLTON POOLS (TO G. C. G.) Poem Text First Line: Now june walks on the waters Last Line: Hist . . . Over olton pools! ON A LAKE Poem Text First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON READING FRANCIS LEDWIDGE'S LAST SONGS Poem Text First Line: At april's end, when blossoms break Last Line: As apple flowers at april's end. Subject(s): April; Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917) ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THOMAS HARDY'S .. 'THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL' Poem Text First Line: Long years ago on cornish land Last Line: In song before we sleep. Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists OUT OF THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Merely the moonlight Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English PASSAGE Poem Text First Line: When you deliberate the page Last Line: In a moon's course, are history. Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians PENANCES Poem Text First Line: These are my happy penances. To make Last Line: In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PERSPECTIVE Poem Text First Line: In the wheatsheaf parlour I sat to see Last Line: On the flowing figures of chippington crowd. Subject(s): God PERSUASION First Line: At any moment love unheralded PETITION Poem Text First Line: O lord, I pray: that for each happiness Last Line: And beauty was his king. Subject(s): God; Prayer PIERROT Poem Text First Line: Pierrot alone Last Line: Are on my brows. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon POLITICS Poem Text First Line: You say a thousand things Last Line: I cannot hear your argument to-day. Subject(s): Politics & Government PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: Though black the night, I know upon the sky Last Line: Of death shall come, the gospel of her light. Subject(s): Morning PROVOCATIONS Poem Text First Line: I am no merry monger when Last Line: And indignation clears the sky. Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops REALITY Poem Text First Line: It is strange how we travel the wide world over Last Line: While the thronging world a phantom is. Subject(s): Fantasy RECIPROCITY Poem Text First Line: I do not think that skies and meadows are Last Line: As little daunted as a star or tree. RECKONING Poem Text First Line: I heard my love go laughing Last Line: Is, false or true, he was my man. Subject(s): Games; Love; Sermons; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements RESPONSIBILITY Poem Text First Line: You ploughman at the gate Last Line: Not beauty, but the flaw. REVERIE Poem Text First Line: Here in the unfrequented noon Last Line: Our brief and variable state. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Boredom; Government; Ennui RIDDLES, R.F.C. Poem Text First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots ROUNDELS OF THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: The spring is passing through the land Last Line: Are you for whom my song is sung. Subject(s): Roundels RUPERT BROOKE (DIED APRIL 23, 1915) Poem Text First Line: To-day I have talked with old euripides Last Line: While our immortal fellowship remains. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings SEALED Poem Text First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end. Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui SEPTEMBER Poem Text First Line: Wind and the robin's note today Last Line: In robes of wisdom's wearing. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall SIR EGLAMOUR'S FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Because you bid me go, and set aside Last Line: Enough! I know my north. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SNAIL Poem Text First Line: Snail upon the wall Last Line: It's all I've got. Subject(s): Animals; Snails SOUTHAMPTON BELLS Poem Text First Line: Long ago some builder thrust Last Line: Your way from brain to brain. Subject(s): Bells SPECTRAL First Line: What will the years tell? SUNRISE ON RYDAL WATER; TO E. DE S. Poem Text First Line: Come down at dawn from windless hills Last Line: Comes up on rydal mere. SYMBOLS Poem Text First Line: I saw history in a poet's song Last Line: In the shadow that went by the side of me. THE ATOM OF GOD: A VISION Poem Text First Line: Suppose that god, being a busy god Last Line: Old faith for pilot on the tides of fate. Subject(s): God THE BIRD'S NEST Poem Text First Line: I know a place, in the ivy on a tree Last Line: The sound of me watching, if I had been a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Birds' Nests THE BUILDING Poem Text First Line: Whence these hods, and bricks of bright red Last Line: Chaos transfigured into lineament. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Details; Things THE CARVER IN STONE Poem Text First Line: He was a man of his time Last Line: And sang across the teeming meadows home Subject(s): Carving (arts); Stone-cutting THE CITY Poem Text First Line: A shining city, one Last Line: With happy wayfaring. Subject(s): Cities; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE COMMON LOT Poem Text First Line: When youth and summer-time are gone Last Line: The sailing of the caravan. Subject(s): Time; Youth THE COTSWOLD FARMERS Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE CRAFTSMEN Poem Text First Line: Confederate hand and eye Last Line: What builds behind this dream. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy THE DEFENDERS Poem Text First Line: His wage of rest at nightfall still Last Line: The stranger from his cottage fire? Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE FECKENHAM MEN Poem Text First Line: The jolly men at feckenham Last Line: A fiery-hearted thing to do? THE FIRES OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Time gathers to my name Last Line: And stormed the secret beauty of the world. Subject(s): Justice THE FUGITIVE Poem Text First Line: Beauty has come to make no longer stay Last Line: But you that die. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THE GUEST Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel that death is very near Last Line: Slip quietly to sea? Subject(s): Death; Guests; Dead, The; Visiting THE HERESY OF AN ELDER ON NOT BELIEVING IN FAIRIES Poem Text First Line: I don't believe in fairies;- / I've something else to do Last Line: I shall know that I am blind. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE HOURS Poem Text First Line: Those hours are best when suddenly Last Line: To the lucidity of song. Subject(s): Hourglasses; Time THE LIFE OF JOHN HERITAGE Poem Text First Line: Born in the cotswolds in eighteen-forty or so Last Line: Fall in with strange foot-fellows on the road. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MIDLANDS Poem Text First Line: Black in the summer night my cotswold hill Last Line: I draw the blood of england's midmost shires. Subject(s): England; Gloucestershire, England; Midlands, England; Sex; English THE MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Come, sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Last Line: The everlasting miracle of spring. Subject(s): Spring THE NEW MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Of old men wrought strange gods for mystery Last Line: Unfathomable thought. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PATRIOT Poem Text First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me Last Line: I have my own; I envy none. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English THE SHIPS OF GRIEF Poem Text First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: The large report of fame I lack Last Line: Across my brow the leaves of life. Subject(s): Bombs; Scars; Soldiers; Thunder THE SUN Poem Text First Line: I told the sun that I was glad Last Line: "I'm happy"" to the sun." Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE TRAVELLER Poem Text First Line: When march was master of furrow and fold Last Line: "the gate is open -- be quick, be quick." Subject(s): Daffodils; March (month); Spring THE VAGABOND Poem Text First Line: I know the pools where the grayling rise Last Line: I'm lord of a dozen counties. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WITCH BALL Poem Text First Line: Never, oh never came Last Line: From fogs of the night. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WOOD Poem Text First Line: I walked a nut-wood's gloom. And overhead Last Line: Beating along my undiscovered mind. Subject(s): Forests; Traffic; Woods THOMAS YARNTON OF TARLTON Poem Text First Line: One of those old men fearing no man Last Line: Of thomas yarnton of tarlton dumbly. Subject(s): Epitaphs THRIFT First Line: No beauty beauty overthrows TO A POET ON HIS EPITAPH FOR THE FALLEN Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dying, yet their fame Last Line: To save their splendour in a rhyme. Subject(s): Epitaphs TO ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text First Line: I too have known my mutinies Last Line: With the new word's magnificence. Subject(s): Love TO AND FRO ABOUT THE CITY First Line: Shakespeare is dust, and will not come Last Line: May you not meet, in spite of death, %a traveler from nazareth? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion TO ONE I LOVE Poem Text First Line: As I walked along the passage, in the night Last Line: I knew. Subject(s): Love TO THE DEFILERS Poem Text First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE LOVERS THAT COME AFTER US Poem Text First Line: Lovers, a little of this your happy time Last Line: On brain and limbs, and we be lovers still. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TOLL-GATE HOUSE First Line: The toll-gate's gone, but still stands lone TRAVEL TALK Poem Text First Line: To the high hills you took me, where desire Last Line: And bade us to the benison of sleep. TREASON Poem Text First Line: What time I write my roundelays Last Line: I am as derelict as he. Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.) TRIAL Poem Text First Line: Beauty of old and beauty yet to be Last Line: When masks of beauty walk with beauty too. Subject(s): Beauty VENUS IN ARDEN Poem Text First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English VOCATION First Line: This be my pilgrimage and goal VOTIVE First Line: O moon, swung there immeasurably far WASHING First Line: What is all this washing about Last Line: Please, what is all this washing about? WE MOTHERS KNOW Poem Text First Line: Peace,' they have said Last Line: It shall be so. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War WE WILLED IT NOT Poem Text First Line: We willed it not. We have not lived in hate Last Line: Not lightly shall the treason be atoned. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WED Poem Text First Line: I married him on christmas morn Last Line: Would I were dead. Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WHEN SLEEP DELAYS Poem Text First Line: When sleep delays, yet thought is but a sorrow Last Line: Of your devising. Subject(s): Sleep WHO WERE BEFORE ME First Line: Long time in some forgotton churchyard earth of warwickshire WITH DAFFODILS Poem Text First Line: I send you daffodils, my dear Last Line: Are you the only firmament. Subject(s): Daffodils; Eden; God; Heaven; Paradise WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: These hills and waters fostered you Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man. Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED) Poem Text First Line: Where wall and sill and broken window-frame Last Line: And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. Subject(s): Ludlow Castle, England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH Poem Text First Line: I do not use to listen well Last Line: And climb the pulpit-stair. Subject(s): April; Barnes, William (1801-1886); Churches; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals |
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