Year: 2021

“Star-Talk” by Robert Graves

Star-Talk

'Are you awake, Gemelli,

This frosty night?'

'We'll be awake till reveillé,

Which is Sunrise,' say the Gemelli,

'It's no good trying to go to sleep:

If there's wine to be got we'll drink it deep,

But rest is hopeless to-night,

But rest is hopeless to-night.'

 

'Are you cold too, poor Pleiads,

This frosty night?'

'Yes, and so are the Hyads:

See us cuddle and hug,' say the Pleiads,

'All six in a ring : it keeps us warm:

We huddle together like birds in a storm:

It's bitter weather to-night,

It's bitter weather to-night.'

 

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Robert Graves' poem "Star-Talk" was published in Georgian Poetry, 1916-1917. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Eros and Psyche” by Richard Aldington

"Eros and Psyche"

In an old dull yard near Camden Town,

Which echoes with the rattle of cars and 'busses

And freight-trains, puffing steam and smoke and dirt

To the steaming, sooty sky —

There stands an old and grimy statue,

A statue of Psyche and her lover, Eros.

 

A little nearer Camden Town,

In a square of ugly sordid shops,

Is another statue, facing the Tube,

Staring with a heavy, purposeless glare

At the red and white shining tiles —

A tall stone statue of Cobden.

 

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Richard Aldington's poem "Eros and Psyche" was published in the 1916 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Tidal Gossip by Robert Alden Sanborn

"Tidal Gossip"

With a kick of white lace

The ruffled waves

Flirt to the winking sun;

Minding not

the stodgy sleeper,

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Robert Alden Sanborn's short poem "Tidal Gossip" was published in the 1916 Others anthology. Follow the link(s) below to read it in full in a digitized version of this publication:

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“Now the gold goes trickling out of the sunset” by Arnold James

"I"
Now the gold goes trickling out of the sunset,
Leaving blue and the deep slumbering red :
(Beautiful, calm in accomplishment, but dead).

Dark green leaves dance over the deepening sky
And silver starlight, dreamingly tranquil
(But still as Death, now the gold has gone, so still)

 

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Arnold James' poem "Now the gold goes trickling out of the sunset" was published in the 1919 Wheels anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Moonstruck” by Richard Hughes

"Moonstruck" 

Cold shone the moon, with noise

The night went by.

Trees uttered things of woe:

Bent grass dared not grow:

 

Ah, desperate man with haggard eyes

And hands that fence away the skies,

On rock and briar stumbling,

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Richard Hughes' poem "Moonstruck" was published in Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Clouds across the Canyon” by John Gould Fletcher

"Clouds across the Canyon"

Shadows of clouds

March across the canyon,

Shadows of blue hands passing

Over a curtain of flame.

 

Clutching, staggering, upstriking,

Darting in blue-black fury,

 

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John Gould Fletcher's poem "Clouds across the Canyon" from his "Arizona" sequence was published in the 1916 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“You” by Horace Holley

"You"

By you all things are changed.

My friends and foes alike

Become as strangers without name,

 

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Horace Holley's poem "You" was published in the 1916 Others anthology. Follow the link(s) below to read it in full in a digitized version of this publication:

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“New Saints” by Sherard Vines

"New Saints"

Christ Communist, accept these latest

Saints following the antique way,

Liebknecht, who scorned kings and the greatest,

And Rosa, now grown "mystica."

 

His flesh was parted, a new mass

 

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Sherard Vines' poem "New Saints" was published in the 1919 Wheels anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Her New-Year Posy” by William Kerr

"Her New-Year Posy"

When I seek the world through

For images of you,

Though apple-blossom is glad

And the lily stately-sad,

Gilliflowers kind of breath,

Rosemary true till death;

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WIlliam Kerr's poem "Her New-Year Posy" was published in the Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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“Brooding Grief” by D.H. Lawrence

"Brooding Grief"

A yellow leaf from the darkness

Hops like a frog before me —

— Why should I start and stand still?

 

I was watching the woman that bore me

Stretched in the brindled darkness

Of the sick-room, rigid with will

To die —

And the quick leaf tore me

Back to this rainy swill

Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.

 

D.H. Lawrence's poem "Brooding Grief" was published in the 1916 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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