Collection and Recollection

By Roger Daventry

Selected Poems written by Peter Daventry on love- on war and the coming of wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ReadOnTime BV
• Release date: Apr 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781742843575

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Collection and Recollection

Selected Poems of

Peter Daventry

SMASHWORDS EDITION

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Collection and Recollection

Copyright © 2013 Roger Daventry

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A copy of this publication can be found in the National Library of Australia.

ISBN:  978-1-742843-57-5 (pbk.)

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Cover: Flowers play a beautiful part in many of his poems. The camellia leaves with the rose signify his diversity, but conjoined, depict his empathy.

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Contents

A Preface

Footnote 1:

Footnote 2:

Libra

Dialogue

Rimer’s Residue

Two Notions – On hearing the first critic in Spring

Februation

Helicon

On D.I.S. Requesting Criticism

On Time

Other thoughts…

A Reflection

Outsite

The Moral of Mr Blink

Come with the Crabjor…

On Love…

Circe

Buscar Amor, Descubrir Labor!

Clementine

Aeolis

Amity

To a Lady Returning to Honsu

Troth

Echo

To a cold shoulder

Coquette

Plaint

Plea..of a rejected suitor

Prenez Garde!

….Springs Eternal

A Scent of Iris

She Also Serves

Miner’s Ease

Pour toujours,

For Evermore

Elegy at Winter’s End

Lunalay

Bouquet. (Lingua Flora)

A Farewell

One thinks about a lot of things…

Primogenitura

Vital Virtue

Cry of Anarchical Bank Clerk

Excuse

Further thoughts…

Non Placet

Strange Company

Humility

On politics

On the Emotional Appreciation of a Mental Stimulation

Pride Invert

A la Mode

Viewpoint

Ode

Ode

Dubiety

Rumspect

Envy

On Being in Time

Procrastinator’s Plea

On Beginning to be Old

Ember of December

The Time Machine

Pagan Questing

Compromise

Portrait in Oils

Leona

On first reading a noted Quartet

Afterthought

On a Line by G.S. Fraser

Recollection

Humour, Humilis, Humus

Aboriginal Aspiration

Last prospect

Poor Man

Gandhi Ki Jai!

From War…

Last Humours of a Dictator

ICONOCLASTIES

Crusade

Some thoughts on nature…

Drought

Con-serve

The Barefoot Sower

Red Moon

Karri

Tuppence Plain, Penny Coloured

The Song of Nak-Li

The Song of Nak-Li

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Foreword

The selected poems by Peter Daventry reflect his deep conviction with Christian belief.

As the reader uncovers the gems of his writing, think back to the Epistle hereunder

A reading from the Letter of Paul to the Romans:

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. No, if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 16:21-28

Enjoy the thoughts on poetry itself, on love, on nature, on war and on the coming of wisdom.

I have learnt more of him from compiling his poems than I did during his lifetime.

Roger Daventry, - a son.

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A Preface

To entertain the ear and sight

is all my simple claim

What odds if fancy’s flickering light

Of stuff and shade make game?

If liberties I take with rhyme,

with metre, or with reason,

yet suffer that a little time,

for fool must have his season.

Which season is a nether-blend

of Spring and Autumn woven

with Summer and to Winter’s end –

all fruitful, as is proven.

To stir you then, or cheer you now,

and over all, to please you,

bear down upon my fruitful bough

whene’er the mood may seize you.

Be patronising as you will,

or critical however,

but smile withal is better still,

and be content, whatever.

So cheer you at my constant flame,

though fitful be the light!

Good days my master and my dame

and sweet dreams by night!

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