F. N. W. BATESON (Trinity)
TrespassersPage [1]
EDMUND BLUNDEN (Queen’s)
The Watermill[2]
The Scythe[4]
That Time is Gone[7]
The South-West Wind[8]
The Canal[9]
The March Bee[11]
LOUIS GOLDING (Queen’s)
Ploughman at the Plough[12]
Portrait of an Artist[13]
Shepherd singing Ragtime[14]
Ghosts Gathering[18]
Silver-badged Waiter[20]
ROBERT GRAVES (St John’s)
Cynics and Romantics[21]
Unicorn and the White Doe[22]
Sullen Moods[25]
Henry and Mary[27]
On the Ridge[28]
A Lover since Childhood[29]
ROSALEEN GRAVES (Home Student)
Night Sounds[30]
‘A Stronger than he shall come upon him ...’[32]
Colour[33]
BERTRAM HIGGINS (B.N.C.)
White Magic[34]
RICHARD HUGHES (Oriel)
Singing Furies[35]
The Sermon[37]
Tramp[38]
Gratitude[40]
Judy[42]
Ruin[43]
ALAN PORTER (Queen’s)
Introduction to a Narrative Poem[44]
Summer Bathing[47]
Country Churchyard[49]
Museum[50]
Lost Lands[52]
FRANK PREWETT (Christ Church)
Come Girl, and embrace[53]
I went out into the Fields[54]
Comrade, why do you weep?[56]
The Winds caress the Trees[57]
EDGELL RICKWORD (Pembroke)
Complaint of a Tadpole confined in a jam-jar[58]
Regret for the Depopulation of Rural Districts[60]
Complaint after Psycho-Analysis[61]
Desire[62]
Trench Poets[63]
Winter Prophecies[64]

F. N. W. BATESON

TRESPASSERS

Gauntly outlined, white and still,
Three haystacks peer above the hill;
Three aged rakes thrust sprawlingly
Fantastic tendons to the sky.
In the void and dismal yard
Farmer’s dog keeps rasping guard,
Challenging night’s trespassers,
The solemn legions of the stars;
Growling ignominious scorn
At Cancer and at Capricorn.
The yellow stars, serene and prim,
Tolerantly stare at him.

EDMUND BLUNDEN

THE WATERMILL