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Robert Graves: A Dead Boche
A Dead BocheTo you who'd read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I'll say (you've heard it said before) "War's Hell!" and if you doubt the same, Today I found in Mametz Wood…Robert Graves: A Pinch of Salt
A Pinch of SaltWhen a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'…Robert Graves: An Old Twenty-Third Man
An Old Twenty-Third Man"Is that the Three-and-Twentieth, Strabo mine, Marching below, and we still gulping wine?" From the sad magic of his fragrant cup The red-faced old centurion started up…Robert Graves: Cherry-Time
Cherry-TimeCherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy piper When he pipes his magic tune: Merry, merry, Take a cherry; Mine…Robert Graves: Corporal Stare
Corporal StareBack from the line one night in June, I gave a dinner at Bethune— Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal Money could buy or batman steal. Five hungry lads welcomed the fish With…Robert Graves: Dead Cow Farm
Dead Cow Farm An ancient saga tells us how In the beginning the First Cow (For nothing living yet had birth But Elemental Cow on earth) Began to lick cold stones and mud: Under her warm…Robert Graves: Double Red Daisies
Double Red DaisiesDouble red daisies, they're my flowers, Which nobody else may grow. In a big quarrelsome house like ours They try it sometimes—but no, I root them up because they're my…Robert Graves: Free Verse
Free VerseI now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, Without let or omission, Just any little rhyme In any little time…Robert Graves: Goliath And David
Goliath And David(For D.C.T., Killed at Fricourt, March, 1916) Yet once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: Out between the lines he went To that one-sided tournament, A…Robert Graves: I Wonder what it Feels Like to be Drowned?
I Wonder what it Feels Like to be Drowned?Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! The candles a tall lightship; my two hands Are boats and barges anchored to the sands,…Trending
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