The shepherd : and other poems of peace and war / by Edmund Blunden
1922, Third Edition. Richard Cobden-Sanderson. Very good copy in the original paper-labeled cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #431529
Physical description; 86 p. ; 23 cm. Contents; 11th R.S.R. -- Shepherd -- Forefathers -- The idlers -- The March bee -- Gleaning -- The pasture pond -- November morning -- The dried millpond -- Spring night -- The May day garland -- Journey -- High summer -- Evening mystery -- Sheet lightning -- Will o' the wisp -- Cloudy June -- Mole catcher -- Water sport -- The scythe struck by lightning -- The giant puffball -- First snow -- Village green -- The poor man's pig -- The covert -- The south-west wind -- The watermill -- The forest -- Behind the line -- The avenue -- Reunion in war -- A farm near Zillebeke -- Festubert, 1916 -- The troubled spirit -- The late stand-to -- War autobiography : written in illness -- Third Ypres : a reminiscence -- 'The earth hath bubbles' -- Death of childhood beliefs -- The canal -- The time is gone -- April byeway -- The child's grave -- The last of autumn. Subjects; English poetry. English poetry 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war. English poetry. World War, 1914-1918 ; Poetry.
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