Poems 1912-1913

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

Beauty and Beauty

Song

Mary and Gabriel

Unfortunate

The Busy Heart

Love

The Chilterns

Home

The Night Journey

The Way That Lovers Use

The Funeral of Youth: Threnody

 

Song

All suddenly the wind comes soft,
   And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,
   And my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
   The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
   Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken,
   And the small birds cry again;
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
   And my heart puts forth its pain.

1912.