 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her...  The New Poetry: An Anthology - Pagina xxxia cura di - 1917 - 404 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1916 - 986 pagine
...stupidities of the war this for the moment seemed to me the most crass. Here was a beautiful creature — A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave...England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blessed by suns of home, with the youth in his limbs, the light in his face, the hope in his heart,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1921 - 1004 pagine
...Ever read Rupert Brooke?" "Oh, yes, yes." Her voice tripped in its eagerness. " I know one by heart "'If I should die think only this of me: That there's...foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be ' " He cut in "on the magical little voice roughly. " Ah, what damned nonsense ! Do you suppose he's... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1921 - 932 pagine
...Ever read Rupert Brooke ? " "Oh, yes, yes." Her voice tripped in its eagerness. " I know one by heart "'If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That b for ever England. There shall be ' " He cut in on the magical little voice roughly. "Ah, what damned... | |
 | 1915 - 988 pagine
...Lascelles Abercrombie, Mr. John Drinkwater, and Mr. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. IF I SHOULD DIE BY BUPEBT BROOKE If I should die. think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That Is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
 | 1918 - 550 pagine
...like a high ambassador extra-territorial sovereignty upon the spot where he will lie in death: — If I should die, think only this of me : That there's...body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by her rivers, blest by suns of home. And think this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal... | |
 | 1917 - 428 pagine
...now dead in the Aegean Isles, who, foreseeing his end, thus wrote of the land that gave him birth : there's some corner of a foreign field . That is for...love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home." And so you today, my young friends,... | |
 | Nantucket Historical Association - 1915 - 354 pagine
...for which he fought. Perchance at times the inspired lines of Rupert Brooke flash through her memory: If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England; there shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1917 - 428 pagine
...stalwarts sleep Low bells chime out from old elm-hidden towers. Even in death do these things endure. If I should die, think only this of me That there's...corner of a foreign field That is for ever England, wrote Rupert Brooke, dying and giving to Lemnos a new beauty, thoughts of the cool woods, the wild... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 180 pagine
...mistaken if the accent of the noblest English poetry does not speak to us in those lines. And again : " If I should die, think only this of me: That there's...love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing, breathing English air. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. "This — this music, this beauty,... | |
 | 1915 - 796 pagine
...Two sonnets from a group entitled simply "1914," reveal the noble quality of his poesy: THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me: That there's...That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers... | |
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