Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: Pinks and syringa in the garden closes Last Line: They die in flanders to keep these for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
PINKS and syringa in the garden closes, And the sweet privet hedge and golden roses, The pines hot in the sun, the drone of the bee, They die in Flanders to keep these for me. The long sunny days and the still weather, The cuckoo and blackbird shouting together, The lambs calling their mothers out on the lea, They die in Flanders to keep these for me. All doors and windows open: the South wind blowing Warm through the clean sweet rooms on tiptoe going, Where many sanctities, dear and delightsome, be, They die in Flanders to keep these for me. Daisies leaping in foam on the green grasses, The dappled sky and the stream that sings as it passes; These are bought with a price, a bitter fee, They die in Flanders to keep these for me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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