Spring Harvest

by Geoffrey Bache Smith

51 chapters1h 31mEnglish1918

About this book

G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He was a talented poet and attended Oxford. In 1915, he fought for England in World War I, and died of wounds received in 1916. After his death, this volume of his poetry was published by Tolkien and dedicated to Smith's mother. - Summary by Devorah Allen

Chapters (50)

1I: Glastonbury

962

2I: Legend

249

3II: Rime

125

4II: To an Elzevir Cicero

5II: To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour

6II: Pure Virginia

7II: A Preface for a Tale I have never told

8II: A Sonnet

9II: ''It was all in the Black Countree''

10II: To a Pianist

11II: A Fragment

12II: Sea Poppies

149

13II: ''O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind''

14II: Ære Perennius

111

15II: The Old Kings

16II: ''O there be Kings whose Treasuries''

136

17II: A Study

18II: The Eremite

19II: The House of Eld

20II: The South-west Wind

21II: Schumann: Erstes Verlust

102

22II: ''Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky''

23II: ''Wind of the Darkness''

24II: Creator Spiritus

25II: Wind over the Sea

26II: Songs on the Downs

27III: ''We who have bowed ourselves to Time''

28III: Anglia Valida in Senectute

102

29III: ''Dark is the World our Fathers left us''

30III: Awakening

31III: Ave atque Vale

111

32III: ''O, one came down from Seven Hills''

121

33III: Sonnet to the British Navy

34III: The Last Meeting

35III: The New Age and the Old

36III: To the Cultured

37III: Afterwards

38III: Domum redit Poeta

39III: Memories

105

40III: Intercessional

41III: April 1916

42III: ''Over the Hills and Hollows Green''

43III: Sonnet

44III: ''O Long the Fiends of War shall dance''

45III: For R. Q. G.

46III: ''Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring''

47III: ''Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes''

109

48III: ''Save that Poetic Fire''

49III: The Burial of Sophocles

456

50III: ''So we lay down the Pen''

Spring Harvest

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