Month: April 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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