Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

by Isaac Rosenberg

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

POEMS BY

ISAAC ROSENBERG

SONGS IN CAPTIVITY

By R. H. Sauter

BALLAD OF THE “ROYAL ANN”

By Crosbie Garston

DOWN HERE THE HAWTHORN

By Thomas Moult

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

ISAAC ROSENBERG.

POEMS BY
ISAAC ROSENBERG

SELECTED AND EDITED BY

GORDON BOTTOMLEY

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY

LAURENCE BINYON

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Youth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy vesture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subdue—battle, aggressive. How we despise those older and duller—we want life, newness, excitement.

(Circa 1916.)