Category: Poetry
Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems, with Sonnets
O earth, give us the corn, Come rain, come sun; We men who have been born Have tasks undone. Out of this earth Comes the thing birth, The thing unguessed, unwon.
Chapters
1. Part 1
O earth, give us the corn, Come rain, come sun; We men who have been born Have tasks undone. Out of this earth Comes the thing birth, The thing unguessed, unwon.
2. Part 2A hundred years ago they quarried for the stone here; The carts came through the wood by the track still plain; The drills show in the rock where the blasts were blown here, The...
3. Part 3Beauty was with me once, but now, grown old, I cannot hear nor see her: thus a King In the high turret kept him from the cold Over the fire with his magic ring, Which, as he wro...