Tides: A Book of Poems
By John Drinkwater
6 May, 2019
A MANS DAUGHTER
There is an old woman who looks each night
VENUS IN ARDEN
Now Love, her mantle thrown,
COTSWOLD LOVE
Blue skies are over Cotswold
THE MIDLANDS
Black in the summer night my Cotswold hill
MAY GARDEN
A shower of green ge
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A MANS DAUGHTER
There is an old woman who looks each night
VENUS IN ARDEN
Now Love, her mantle thrown,
COTSWOLD LOVE
Blue skies are over Cotswold
THE MIDLANDS
Black in the summer night my Cotswold hill
MAY GARDEN
A shower of green gems on my apple tree
PLOUGH
The snows are come in early state,
POLITICS
You say a thousand things,
BIRMINGHAM—1916
Once Athens worked and went to see the play,
INSCRIPTION FOR A WAR MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
They nothing feared whose names I celebrate.
TREASON
What time I write my roundelays,
MY ESTATE
I have four loves, four loves are mine,
WITH DAFFODILS
I send you daffodils, my dear,
FOR A GUEST ROOM
All words are said,
ON READING THE MS. OF DOROTHY WORDSWORTHS JOURNALS
To-day I read the poet's sisters book,
THE OLD WARRIOR
Sorrow has come to me,
THE GUEST
Sometimes I feel that death is very near,
REVERIE
Here in the unfrequented noon,
PENANCES
These are my happy penances. To make
COLOPHON Less