John Drinkwater Deep Poems
- 1. Birthright
Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
Because a summer evening passed;
And little Ariadne cried
That summer fancy fell at last
... - 2. To My Son
(AGED SIXTEEN)
Dear boy unborn: the son but of my dream,
Promise of yet unrisen day,
... - 3. Gold
There is a castle on a hill,
So far into the sky,
That birds that from the valley-beds
Up to the turrets fly,
... - 4. Moonlit Apples
At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,
And the skylight lets the moonlight in, and those
Apples are deep-sea apples of green. There goes
A cloud on the moon in the autumn night.
... - 5. The Carver In Stone
He was a man with wide and patient eyes,
Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,
That, without fearing, searched if any wrong
Might threaten from your heart. Grey eyes he had
... - 6. The Fires Of God
I
Time gathers to my name;
Along the ways wheredown my feet have passed
... - 7. The Midlands
Black in the summer night my Cotswold hill
Aslant my window sleeps, beneath a sky
Deep as the bedded violets that fill
March woods with dusky passion. As I lie
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