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"Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark—a shining space
With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet. Sick Love (l. 10-12). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"never dare entrust them to a safe
For fear they burn a hole through two-foot steel."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet. Spoils (l. 13-14). . .
New Yorker Book of Poems, The. (1969) The Viking Press. (Paperback edition of 1974 published by William Morrow & Company). |
"When all is over and you march for home,
The spoils of war are easily disposed of:"
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Spoils (l. 1-2). . .
New Yorker Book of Poems, The. (1969) The Viking Press. (Paperback edition of 1974 published by William Morrow & Company). |
""Are you cold too, poor Pleiads,
This frosty night?"
"Yes, and so are the Hyads:
See us cuddle and hug," says the Pleiads,
"All six in a ring: it keeps us warm:
We huddle together like birds in a storm:"
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Star-Talk (l. 9-14). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press. |
"Nature, doubtless, has some compelling cause
To glut the carriers of her epidemics—
Nor did the peach complain."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Blue-Fly (l. 18-20). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Magnified one thousand times, the insect
Looks farcically human; laugh if you will!
Bald head, stage-fairy wings, blear eyes,
A caved-in chest, hairy black mandibles,
Long spindly thighs."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Blue-Fly (l. 6-10). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Cool Web (l. 9-12). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. The Cool Web, Poems (1927). |
"Sigh then, or frown, but leave (as in despair)
Motive and end and moral in the air;
Nice contradiction between fact and fact
Will make the whole read human and exact."
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Devil's Advice to Story-tellers (l. 19-22). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps
That may shake down into a world perhaps;
People this world, by chance created so,
With random persons whom you do not know—"
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Devil's Advice to Story-tellers (l. 11-14). . .
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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