September SongBY GEOFFREY HILLborn 19.6.32—deported 24.9.42 Undesirable you may have been untouchable 1you were not. 2 Not forgottenor passed over at the proper time. 3 As estimated, you died. 4 Things marched,sufficient, to that end. 5 Just so much Zyklon and leather, 6 patentedterror, so many routine cries. 7 (I have made 8an elegy forContinue reading “September Song : Geoffrey Hill : : September Poems : : Months Poems : :”
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Still Falls The Rain : Dame Edith Sitwell : ( 1 ) : : Reading Video ( September 6,1941 ) By Edith Sitwell : ( 2 ) : : Jason Berger : Maxwell Britten : : Music Video ( Friday April 8 , 2016 ) Michigan Univ. School of Music , Theatre & Dance : ( 3 ) : : Rain Poems : :
https://youtu.be/3t74RdNUOQA Still falls the Rain—Dark as the world of man, black as our loss—Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nailsUpon the Cross. Still falls the RainWith a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beatIn the Potter’s Field, and the sound of the impious feet On the Tomb:Still fallsContinue reading “Still Falls The Rain : Dame Edith Sitwell : ( 1 ) : : Reading Video ( September 6,1941 ) By Edith Sitwell : ( 2 ) : : Jason Berger : Maxwell Britten : : Music Video ( Friday April 8 , 2016 ) Michigan Univ. School of Music , Theatre & Dance : ( 3 ) : : Rain Poems : :”
All Day It Has Rained : Alun Lewis : : Rain Poems : :
ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moorsHave sprawled in our bell-tents, moody and dull as boors,Groundsheets and blankets spread on the muddy groundAnd from the first grey wakening we have found No refuge from the skirmishing fine rainAnd the wind that made the canvasContinue reading “All Day It Has Rained : Alun Lewis : : Rain Poems : :”
The March Of The Dead : Robert W Service : :
Robert William Service ( 1854 – 1958 ) : : : : ::The March Of The Dead The cruel war was over — oh, the triumph was so sweet!We watched the troops returning, through our tears;There was triumph, triumph, triumph down the scarlet glittering street,And you scarce could hear the music for the cheers.And youContinue reading “The March Of The Dead : Robert W Service : :”
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