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    Country Sentiment

    By Robert Graves

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    Robert von Ranke Graves is more commonly known as Robert Graves was born on 24 July 1895. A man of great talents; poet, scholar, translator and the writer of such gems as I Claudius. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems—together with his translations and interpretations of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, Good-Bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess—have never been out of print. In this volume we bring you his first published poetry collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Word To The Wise
    Release dateOct 11, 2013
    ISBN9781780008776
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    Robert Graves

    Robert Graves (1895–1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known for the historical novel I, Claudius and his critical study of myth and poetry in The White Goddess. His autobiography, Goodbye to All That, was originally published in 1929, quickly establishing itself as a modern classic. Graves also translated Apuleius, Lucan, and Suetonius, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths.

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      Country Sentiment - Robert Graves

      COUNTRY SENTIMENT by Robert Graves

      Robert von Ranke Graves is more commonly known as Robert Graves was born on  24 July 1895. A man of great talents; poet, scholar, translator and the writer of such gems as I Claudius. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems—together with his translations and interpretations of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, Good-Bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess—have never been out of print.  In this volume we bring you his first published poetry collection.

      CONTENTS

      A Frosty Night

      Song for Two Children

      Dicky

      The Three Drinkers

      The Boy out of Church

      After the Play

      One Hard Look

      True Johnny

      The Voice of Beauty Drowned

      The God Called Poetry

      Rocky Acres

      Advice to Lovers

      Nebuchadnezzar's Fall

      Give us Rain

      Allie

      Loving Henry

      Brittle Bones

      Apples and Water

      Manticor in Arabia

      Outlaws

      Baloo Loo for Jenny

      Hawk and Buckle

      The Alice Jean

      The Cupboard

      The Beacon

      Pot and Kettle

      Ghost Raddled

      Neglectful Edward

      The Well-dressed Children

      Thunder at Night

      To E.M. A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme

      Jane

      Vain and Careless

      Nine o'Clock

      The Picture Book

      The Promised Lullaby

      RETROSPECT

      Haunted

      Retrospect:  The Jests of the Clock

      Here They Lie

      Tom Taylor

      Country at War

      Sospan Fach

      The Leveller

      Hate not, Fear not

      A Rhyme of Friends

      A First Review

      A FROSTY NIGHT.

      Mother

      Alice, dear, what ails you,

      Dazed and white and shaken?

      Has the chill night numbed you?

      Is it fright you have taken?

      Alice

      Mother, I am very well,

      I felt never better,

      Mother, do not hold me so,

      Let me write my letter.

      Mother

      Sweet, my dear, what ails you?

      Alice

      No, but I am well;

      The night was cold and frosty,

      There's no more to tell.

      Mother

      Ay, the night was frosty,

      Coldly gaped the moon,

      Yet the birds seemed twittering

      Through green boughs of June.

      Soft and thick the snow lay,

      Stars danced in the sky.

      Not all the lambs of May-day

      Skip so bold and high.

      Your feet were dancing, Alice,

      Seemed to dance on air,

      You looked a ghost or angel

      In the starlight there.

      Your eyes were frosted starlight,

      Your heart fire and snow.

      Who was it said, I love you?

      Alice

      Mother, let me go!

      A SONG FOR TWO CHILDREN.

      "Make a song, father, a new little song,

      All for Jenny and Nancy."

      Balow lalow or Hey derry down,

      Or else what might you fancy?

      Is there any song

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