Edward Shanks Beneath Poems
- 1. Memory
In silence and in darkness memory wakes
Her million sheathë"d buds, and breaks
That day-long winter when the light and noise
And hard bleak breath of the outward-looking will
... - 2. Song For An Unwritten Play
The moon's a drowsy fool to-night,
Wrapped in fleecy clouds and white;
And all the while Endymion
Sleeps on Latmos top alone.
... - 3. Bramber
Before the downs in their great horse-shoes rise,
I know a village where the Adur runs,
Blown by sweet winds and by beneficent suns
Visited and made ripe beneath kind skies.
... - 4. Sonnets On Separation Vii
We're at the world's top now. The hills around
Stand proud in order with the valleys deep,
The hills with pastures drest, with tall trees crowned,
And the low valleys dipt in sunny sleep.
... - 5. Song: Meadow And Orchard
My heart is like a meadow,
Where clouds go over,
Dappling the mingled grass and clover
With mingled sun and shadow,
... - 6. Song: The Holiday
The world's great ways unclose
Through little wooded hills:
An air that stirs and stills,
Dies sighing where it rose
... - 7. The Golden Moment
Along the branches of the laden tree
The ripe fruit smiling hang. The afternoon
Is emptied of all things done and things to be.
Low in the sky the inconspicuous moon
... - 8. Persuasion.
Still must your hands withhold your loveliness?
Is your soul jealous of your body still?
The fair white limbs beneath the clouding dress
Are such hard forms as you alone could fill
... - 9. The Winter Soldier
September 1914, April 1915
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