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Title: Country Sentiment

Author: Robert Graves

Posting Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #1418]
Release Date: August, 1998

Language: English

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Produced by Sue Asscher

COUNTRY SENTIMENT

by Robert Graves

To Nancy Nicholson

Note:
Some of the poems included in this volume have appeared in
"The New Statesman", "The Owl", "Reveille", "Land and Water",
"Poetry", and other papers, English and American.

Robert Graves.

Harlech,

North Wales.

CONTENTS

A Frosty Night
Song for Two Children
Dicky
The Three Drinkers
The Boy out of Church
After the Play
One Hard Look
True Johnny
The Voice of Beauty Drowned
The God Called Poetry
Rocky Acres
Advice to Lovers
Nebuchadnezzar's Fall
Give us Rain
Allie
Loving Henry
Brittle Bones
Apples and Water
Manticor in Arabia
Outlaws
Baloo Loo for Jenny
Hawk and Buckle
The "Alice Jean"
The Cupboard
The Beacon
Pot and Kettle
Ghost Raddled
Neglectful Edward
The Well-dressed Children
Thunder at Night
To E.M.--A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme
Jane
Vain and Careless
Nine o'Clock
The Picture Book
The Promised Lullaby

RETROSPECT

Haunted
Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock
Here They Lie
Tom Taylor
Country at War
Sospan Fach
The Leveller
Hate not, Fear not
A Rhyme of Friends
A First Review

A FROSTY NIGHT.

Mother

Alice, dear, what ails you,
Dazed and white and shaken?
Has the chill night numbed you?
Is it fright you have taken?

Alice

Mother, I am very well,
I felt never better,
Mother, do not hold me so,
Let me write my letter.

Mother

Sweet, my dear, what ails you?

Alice

No, but I am well;
The night was cold and frosty,
There's no more to tell.

Mother