"Your eyes were frosted starlight,
Your heart fire and snow.
Who was it said, "I love you"?
Alice: Mother, let me go!" Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. A Frosty Night (l. 25-28). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press. |
"Her image was my ensign: snows melted,
Hedges sprouted, the moon tenderly shone,
The owls trilled with tongues of nightingale." Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. A Love Story (l. 13-15). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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