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Title: Fairies and Fusiliers
Author: Robert Graves
Release Date: November 18, 2003 [eBook #10122]
Language: English
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FAIRIES AND FUSILIERS
BY
ROBERT GRAVES
1918
TO
THE ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS
_I have to thank Mr. Harold Monro, of The
Poetry Book Shop, for permission to include
in this volume certain poems of which he
possesses the copyright; also the editor of the
"Nation" for a similar courtesy._
R.G.
CONTENTS
TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC
AN OLD TWENTY-THIRD MAN
TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WAR--FOR THE FOURTH TIME
TWO FUSILIERS
TO ROBERT NICHOLS
DEAD COW FARM
GOLIATH AND DAVID
BABYLON
MR. PHILOSOPHER
THE CRUEL MOON
FINLAND
A PINCH OF SALT
THE CATERPILLAR
SORLEY'S WEATHER
THE COTTAGE
THE LAST POST
WHEN I'M KILLED
LETTER TO S.S. FROM MAMETZ WOOD
A DEAD BOCHE
FAUN
THE SPOILSPORT
THE SHIVERING BEGGAR
JONAH
JOHN SKELTON
I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED?
DOUBLE RED DAISIES
CAREERS
I'D LOVE TO BE A FAIRY'S CHILD
THE NEXT WAR
STRONG BEER
MARIGOLDS
THE LADY VISITOR IN THE PAUPER WARD
LOVE AND BLACK MAGIC
SMOKE-RINGS
A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE
ESCAPE
THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE
NOT DEAD
A BOY IN CHURCH
CORPORAL STARE
THE ASSAULT HEROIC
THE POET IN THE NURSERY
IN THE WILDERNESS
CHERRY-TIME
1915
FREE VERSE
TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC
_The great sun sinks behind the town
Through a red mist of Volnay wine.
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