W.j. Turner Cool Poems

  • 1.
    The stone-grey roses by the desert's rim
    Are soft-edged shadows on the moonlit sand,
    Grey are the broken walls of Khangavar,
    That haunt of nightingales, whose voices are
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  • 2.
    I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn
    Of boys who sought for shells along the shore,
    Their white feet shedding pallor in the sea,
    The shallow sea, the spring-time sea of green
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  • 3.
    I love a still conservatory
    That's full of giant, breathless palms,
    Azaleas, clematis and vines,
    Whose quietness great Trees becalms
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  • 4.
    In low chalk hills the great King's body lay,
    And bright streams fell, tinkling like polished tin,
    As though they carried off his armoury,
    And spread it glinting through his wide domain.
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Total 4 Cool Poems by W.j. Turner

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