Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street. β¨ Robert Graves (1920). Country Sentiment
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- She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow. β¨ β¦ βΆ
- Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. β¨ Robert Grav β¦ βΆ
- We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. β¨ Robert Graves (2013). Selected Poems, p.130, Faber & Faber
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