The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Darley to HeaneyJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 476 pages |
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Page 274
... wood's in trouble ; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves ; The gale , it plies the saplings double , And thick on ... wood . Then , ' twas before my time , the Roman 274 A. E. HOUSMAN 'On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble'
... wood's in trouble ; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves ; The gale , it plies the saplings double , And thick on ... wood . Then , ' twas before my time , the Roman 274 A. E. HOUSMAN 'On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble'
Page 278
... Woods THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago . Weather and rain have undone it again , And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees . It is underneath the coppice and ...
... Woods THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago . Weather and rain have undone it again , And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees . It is underneath the coppice and ...
Page 314
... wood . I sat among the boughs of the fallen elm That strewed the angle of the fallow , and Watched the plough narrowing a yellow square Of charlock . Every time the horses turned Instead of treading me down , the ploughman leaned Upon ...
... wood . I sat among the boughs of the fallen elm That strewed the angle of the fallow , and Watched the plough narrowing a yellow square Of charlock . Every time the horses turned Instead of treading me down , the ploughman leaned Upon ...
Contents
GEORGE DARLEY 17951846 | 1 |
The Wife ALost | 31 |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 18031849 | 40 |
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