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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: 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: 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: John Skelton
John SkeltonWhat could be dafter Than John Skelton's laughter? What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? So where to rank old Skelton? He was no monstrous Milton, Nor wrote no "…Robert Graves: Mr. Philosopher
Mr. PhilosopherOld Mr. Philosopher Comes for Ben and Claire, An ugly man, a tall man, With bright-red hair.The books that he's written No one can read. "In fifty years they'll…Robert Graves: Smoke-Rings
Smoke-RingsBoyMost venerable and learned sir, Tall and true Philosopher, These rings of smoke you blow all day With such deep thought, what sense have they?PhilosopherSmall friend, with…Robert Graves: Sorley's Weather
Sorley's WeatherWhen outside the icy rain Comes leaping helter-skelter, Shall I tie my restive brain Snugly under shelter?Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When…Robert Graves: Strong Beer
Strong Beer"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I."There's a place for everything, Everything, anything, There's a place for everything Where it ought to…Trending
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