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A Spring Harvest - Geoffrey Bache Smith
A SPRING HARVEST
By GEOFFREY BACHE SMITH
LATE LIEUTENANT IN THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
A Spring Harvest
By Geoffrey Bache Smith
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-6938-2
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CONTENTS
I. TWO LEGENDS
GLASTONBURY
LEGEND
II. FIRST POEMS
RIME
TO AN ELZEVIR CICERO
TO A DÜRER DRAWING OF ANTWERP HARBOUR
PURE VIRGINIA
A PREFACE FOR A TALE I HAVE NEVER TOLD
A SONNET
IT WAS ALL IN THE BLACK COUNTREE
TO A PIANIST
A FRAGMENT
SEA POPPIES
O, SING ME A SONG OF THE WILD WEST WIND
ÆRE PERENNIUS
THE OLD KINGS
O THERE BE KINGS WHOSE TREASURIES
A STUDY
THE EREMITE
THE HOUSE OF ELD
THE SOUTH-WEST WIND
SCHUMANN: ERSTES VERLUST
DARK BOUGHS AGAINST A GOLDEN SKY
WIND OF THE DARKNESS
CREATOR SPIRITUS
WIND OVER THE SEA
SONGS ON THE DOWNS
III. LAST POEMS AND THE BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES
WE WHO HAVE BOWED OURSELVES TO TIME
ANGLIA VALIDA IN SENECTUTE
DARK IS THE WORLD OUR FATHERS LEFT US
AWAKENING
AVE ATQUE VALE
SONNET TO THE BRITISH NAVY
THE LAST MEETING
THE NEW AGE AND THE OLD
TO THE CULTURED
AFTERWARDS
DOMUM REDIT POETA
MEMORIES
INTERCESSIONAL
APRIL 1916
OVER THE HILLS AND HOLLOWS GREEN
SONNET
O LONG THE FIENDS OF WAR SHALL DANCE
FOR R. Q. G.
SUN AND SHADOW AND WINDS OF SPRING
LET US TELL QUIET STORIES OF KIND EYES
SAVE THAT POETIC FIRE
THE BURIAL OF SOPHOCLES
SO WE LAY DOWN THE PEN
To HIS MOTHER
NOTE
The poems of this book were written at very various times, one (Wind over the Sea
) I believe even as early as 1910, but the order in which they are here given is not chronological beyond the fact that the third part contains only poems written after the outbreak of the war. Of these some were written in England (at Oxford in particular), some in Wales and very many during a year in France from November 1915 to December 1916, which was broken by one leave in the middle of May.
The Burial of Sophocles,
which is here placed at the end, was begun before the war and continued at odd times and in various circumstances afterwards; the final version was sent me from the trenches.
Beyond these few facts no prelude and no envoi is needed other than those here