Gordon Bottomley Earth Poems
- 1. New Year's Eve, 1913
O, Cartmel bells ring soft to-night,
And Cartmel bells ring clear,
But I lie far away to-night,
Listening with my dear;
... - 2. Littleholme
(To J.S. and A.W.S.)
In entering the town, where the bright river
... - 3. The End Of The World
The snow had fallen many nights and days;
The sky was come upon the earth at last,
Sifting thinly down as endlessly
As though within the system of blind planets
... - 4. King Lear's Wife
(To T.S.M.)
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
... - 5. The Crier By Night
TO
MY DEAR SCRIBE
... - 6. Babel: The Gate Of The God
Lost towers impend, copeless primeval props
Of the new threatening sky, and first rude digits
Of awe remonstrance and uneasy power
Thrust out by man when speech sank back in his throat:
... - 7. Midsummer Eve
Midsummer Eve
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