Year: 2019

“Late Snow” by J.C. Squire

Late Snow

The heavy train through the dim country went rolling,
       rolling,
Interminably passing misty snow-covered plough-land
       ridges
That merged in the snowy sky; came turning
       meadows, fences,
Came gullies and passed, and ice-coloured streams
       under frozen bridges.

Across the travelling landscape evenly drooped and
       lifted
The telegraph wires, thick ropes of snow in the wind-
       less air;

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J.C. Squire's poem "Late Snow" was published in Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922. To read the poem in full in a digitized version of this anthology, follow the link below:

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“Searchlight” by F.S. Flint

Searchlight

There has been no sound of guns,
no roar of exploding bombs;
but the darkness has an edge
that grits the nerves of the sleeper.

He awakens;
nothing disturbs the stillness,
save perhaps the light, slow flap,
once only, of the curtain
dim in the darkness.

Yet there is something else
that drags him from his bed;
and he stands in the darkness
with his feet cold against the floor
and the cold air round his ankles.

[ . . . ]

F.S. Flint's poem "Searchlight" was published in the 1917 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in digitized versions of this publication, follow the links below:

Hathitrust

The Modernist Journals Project

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