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... A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 13a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Detroit Public Library - 1917 - 820 pagine
..."When I'm back in Paris, I'm happy. I could kiss the very cobble-stones," said a French woman. "// / should die, think only this of me: That there's some...corner of a foreign field That is for ever England," is the swan-song of Rupert Brooke with the picture of the beauty of England in his heart. The hardy... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pagine
...following sonnet, entitled " The Soldier," has made a deep impression wherever English is read: " 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 dust a richer dust concealed, " A dust whom England bore,... | |
| Frederick James Gould - 1917 - 168 pagine
...its history, and its genius. The national life that created Rupert Brooke and his manly song : 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 — will create other messengers... | |
| 1917 - 254 pagine
...George Edward Woodberry, and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington. NY Lane, 1915. 159p. "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,... | |
| Edward Bolland Osborn - 1917 - 346 pagine
...evermore. Rupert Brooke's wonderful sonnet which begins, If I should die, think only this of me : X That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England, is the subtlest form of this beautiful symbolism — it would be a conceit in the Elizabethan sense... | |
| 1918 - 542 pagine
...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 some...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... | |
| 1918 - 568 pagine
...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - 686 pagine
...introduced the volume " 1914 ' and were written soon after Brooke had joined the army. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some...roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, , W ashed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse... | |
| 1918 - 834 pagine
...in 1915 in a French hospital ship, and now lies in a Grecian grave in Skyros, in the Aegean — If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some...aware, Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roain, A body of England's, breathing English air. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And... | |
| Wilson Follett - 1918 - 348 pagine
...his ^Egean isle is perhaps doing as much for the reader of the future as Rupert Brooke writing: "If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some...corner of a foreign field That is for ever England." Hardly ever again, after the artist has shown himself as real in his living and dying as in his writing,... | |
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