Category: Poetry
What was said concerning the author in the preface to the first edition may be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was at Marlborough College from September 1908 till December 1913, when he was elected to a...
What was said concerning the author in the preface to the first edition may be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambr...
2. Part 2The trees, the downs, on either hand, Still stand, as he said they would stand. But look, the rain in all the land Makes all things dim with tears of him.
3. Part 3Take but our pauper’s gift of birth, O let us from the grindstone free! And tread the maddening gladdening earth In strength close-braced with purity. The earth is old; we ever...
4. Part 4And what if all its ways are trod By those whom sin brings near to God? This journey soon will make them clean: Their faith is greater than their sin. For still they travel slow...
5. Part 5We had a very swinging Christmas--one that makes one realize (in common with other incidents of the war) how near savages we are and how much the stomach (which Nietzsche calls...