Category: Poetry

Oxford poetry, 1917

Childe, Wilfred Rowland, 1890-1952 [Editor]; Earp, T. W. (Thomas Wade), 1892-1958 [Editor]; Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 8,910 words

Now May is come so beautiful, so blue, And the chestnuts and the willows are green Again ... then, since I may not be near you, Dear brother, let me sail alone, unseen, 'Neath the overhanging buds, past rushes Where the white, graceful swan sits on her nest, Hear the song of t...

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2. Part 2

It's told in those old sagas, how In the beginning the First Cow (For nothing living yet had birth But Elemental Cow on earth) Began to lick cold stones and mud. Under her warm...

1. Part 1

Now May is come so beautiful, so blue, And the chestnuts and the willows are green Again ... then, since I may not be near you, Dear brother, let me sail alone, unseen, 'Neath t...

3. Part 3

Here dwells she, gracious, unrebellious, kind, Knowing, since Fate is Lord, the strife how vain; Knowing, for all her birthright of disdain, Her spirit touched to pity as the se...