Preludes 1921-1922 Contributor(s): Drinkwater, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535392037 ISBN-13: 9781535392037 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1922 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Poetry - History |
Dewey: 811 |
Physical Information: 0.07" H x 8" W x 10" (0.20 lbs) 36 pages |
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Publisher Description: Though black the night, I know upon the sky, A little paler now, if clouds were none, The stars would be. Husht now the thickets lie, And now the birds are moving one by one, - A note-and now from bush to bush it goes- A prelude-now victorious light along The west will come till every bramble glows With wash of sunlit dew shaken in song. Shaken in song; O heart, be ready now, Cold in your night, be ready now to sing. Dawn as it wakes the sleeping bird on bough Shall summon you to instant reckoning, - She is your dawn, O heart, -sing, till the night Of death shall come, the gospel of her lig |