Friday, January 3, 2003

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Rating: ★3.0

Children are dumb to say how hot the day is,
How hot the scent is of the summer rose,
How dreadful the black wastes of evening sky,
How dreadful the tall soldiers drumming by.
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Robert Graves
rose children
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Rob Taylor 15 October 2018

The wide glare of the children's day- that line has stayed with me from when I first read it nearly sixty years ago.

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Matt Johnston 19 April 2008

This is a very ambitious poem. But Graves manages to succeed in capturing something quite fascinating.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves

London / England
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
London / England
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