Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ESSEX, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS


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First Line: I go through the fields of blue water
Last Line: Found to lose them all!
Subject(s): Essex, England


I GO through the fields of blue water
On the South road of the sea.
High to North the East-Country
Holds her green fields to me --
For she that I gave over,
Gives not over me.

Last night I lay at Good Easter
Under a hedge I knew,
Last night beyond High Easter
I trod the May-floors blue --
Till from the sea the sun came
Bidding me wake and rue.

Roding (that names eight churches) --
Banks with the paigles dight --
Chelmer whose mill and willows
Keep one red tower in sight --
Under the Southern Cross run
Beside the ship to-night.

Ah! I may not seek back now,
Neither be turned nor stayed.
Yet should I live, I'd seek her,
Once that my vows are paid!
And should I die I'd haunt her --
I being what God made!

England has greater counties --
Their peace to hers is small.
Low hills, rich fields, calm rivers,
In Essex seek them all, --
Essex, where I that found them
Found to lose them all!





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