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| 5081. | On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by John Betjeman | | The kind old face, the egg-shaped head,
The tie, discreetly loud,
The loosely fitting shooting clothes,
A closely fitting shroud.
He liked old c... |
| 5082. | Upper Lambourne by John Betjeman | | Up the ash tree climbs the ivy,
Up the ivy climbs the sun,
With a twenty-thousand pattering,
Has a valley breeze begun,
Feathery ash, neglected el... |
| 5083. | Winter Landscape by John Betjeman | | The three men coming down the winter hill
In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds
At heel, through the arrangement of the trees,
Past the fi... |
| 5084. | Winter Seascape by John Betjeman | | The sea runs back against itself
With scarcely time for breaking wave
To cannonade a slatey shelf
And thunder under in a cave.
Before the next c... |
| 5085. | The Cottage Hospital by John Betjeman | | At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town,
A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty grass at its feet.
I lay under blackening branch... |
| 5086. | Hospital For Defectives by Thomas Blackburn | | By your unnumbered charities
A miracle disclose,
Lord of the Images, whose love
The eyelids and the rose
Takes for a language, and today
Tell to... |
| 5087. | Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy | | Passer-by, these are words. But instead of reading
I want you to listen: to this frail
Voice like that of letters eaten by grass.
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| 5088. | On a Beautiful Landscape by William Lisle Bowles | | Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee
For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife,
And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life.
Here, all is st... |
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