A Spring Harvest
A Spring Harvest
To HIS MOTHER
Geoffrey Bache Smith
Born
October 18th, 1894
October 1913
January 1915
December 3rd, 1916
A Spring Harvest
Geoffrey Bache Smith
Late Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers
Erskine Macdonald, Ltd.
Geoffrey Bache Smith
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Contents
I. Two Legends
Glastonbury
Legend
II. First Poems
Rime
To an Elzevir Cicero
To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour
Pure Virginia
A Preface for a Tale I have never told
A Sonnet
“It was all in the Black Countree”
To a Pianist
A Fragment
Sea Poppies
“O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind”
Ære Perennius
The Old Kings
“O there be Kings whose Treasuries”
A Study
The Eremite
The House of Eld
The South-west Wind
Schumann: Erstes Verlust
“Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky”
“Wind of the Darkness”
Creator Spiritus
Wind over the Sea
Songs on the Downs
III. Last Poems and “The Burial of Sophocles”
“We who have bowed ourselves to Time”
Anglia Valida in Senectute
“Dark is the World our Fathers left us”
Awakening
Ave atque Vale
“O, one came down from Seven Hills”
Sonnet to the British Navy
The Last Meeting
The New Age and the Old
To the Cultured
Afterwards
Domum redit Poeta
Memories
Intercessional
April 1916
“Over the Hills and Hollows Green”
Sonnet
“O Long the Fiends of War shall dance”
For R. Q. G.
“Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring”
“Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes”
“Save that Poetic Fire”
The Burial of Sophocles
“So we lay down the Pen”