 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
 | Christopher Morley - 1918 - 344 pagine
...York in the shape of clippings from the London Times. No one could read the matchless sonnet: "If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some...corner of a foreign field That is for ever England." and not be thrilled to the quick. A country doctor in Ohio to whom I sent a copy of the sonnet wrote... | |
 | 1918 - 678 pagine
...poplars against an Knglish sky. These lines are surely worthy to stand alongside Rupert Brooke's: If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. or, for further comparison, let me quote Alan Seegar's: I have a rendezvous with death.... | |
 | Ethel Maude Colson - 1918 - 206 pagine
...substitutes for the long-lost magic carpet, certain well-known and well-mannered guides. THE SOLDIER 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,... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson, Inez Bigwood - 1918 - 368 pagine
...appeal to other hearts beside Englishmen. It is a beautiful poem, one that will live forever. 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,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 pagine
...island of Lemnos, one of a group of sonnets entitled 1914 has a special interest : THE SOLDIER "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,... | |
 | Charles Lewis Hind - 1918 - 166 pagine
...hear the surge of our battle hymn — Mother! We come! We come! THE SOLDIER (By Rupert 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,... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1918 - 412 pagine
...the London Times. No one could read the matchless sonnet: "If I should die, think only this of me: ^_ That there's some corner of a foreign field £) That is for ever England." and not be thrilled to the quick. A country doctor in Ohio to whom I sent a copy of the sonnet wrote... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 206 pagine
...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 some...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,... | |
 | American Drug Manufacturers' Association - 1919 - 410 pagine
...died he immortalized his name in this wonderful sonnet, which he wrote just before his death : "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,... | |
 | 1919 - 324 pagine
...Rupert Brooke's poems, just out, which I had brought down the day before, and began reading. "If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England." Half startled, I looked at Mildred. I had read the poem over that morning, thinking... | |
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