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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ENTRY FOR EDMUND GOSSE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncut. The rare first issue.' let Last Line: We shall not find the verso blank. Subject(s): Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928) | |||
'UNCUT. The Rare First Issue.' Let Who will deride our tremulous Fond joy when on our sheet we set The latest of our honours thus. We do not argue. But we know Not vain the charms nor fugitive That freshly from the numbers flow When on their primal page they live. Here is the gentle chronicle Of all such virtues in your mind; Yet here, for all we know it well, One little book they shall not find. It is of old affection writ, Of courtesy that counted not The severing years; the theme of it Has never known design or plot. 'Mint copy. Perfect.' And when age -- (So the Great Printer shall I thank) -- From 'Finis' turns the final page, We shall not find the verso blank. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH VINCENT BOURNE'S POETICAL WORKS by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON TO E.G. DEDICATING A BOOK by GEORGE MACDONALD A TOWN WINDOW by JOHN DRINKWATER MOONLIT APPLES by JOHN DRINKWATER 1914-1918: THE DEAD SPEAK by JOHN DRINKWATER A CHRISTMAS NIGHT by JOHN DRINKWATER A DEDICATION by JOHN DRINKWATER |
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