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
Introductory NoteI: GlastonburyI: LegendII: RimeII: To an Elzevir CiceroII: To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp HarbourII: Pure VirginiaII: A Preface for a Tale I have never toldII: A SonnetII: ''It was all in the Black Countree''II: To a PianistII: A FragmentII: Sea PoppiesII: ''O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind''II: Ære PerenniusII: The Old KingsII: ''O there be Kings whose Treasuries''II: A StudyII: The EremiteII: The House of EldII: The South-west WindII: Schumann: Erstes VerlustII: ''Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky''II: ''Wind of the Darkness''II: Creator SpiritusII: Wind over the SeaII: Songs on the DownsIII: ''We who have bowed ourselves to Time''III: Anglia Valida in SenectuteIII: ''Dark is the World our Fathers left us''III: AwakeningIII: Ave atque ValeIII: ''O, one came down from Seven Hills''III: Sonnet to the British NavyIII: The Last MeetingIII: The New Age and the OldIII: To the CulturedIII: AfterwardsIII: Domum redit PoetaIII: MemoriesIII: IntercessionalIII: April 1916III: ''Over the Hills and Hollows Green''III: SonnetIII: ''O Long the Fiends of War shall dance''III: For R. Q. G.III: ''Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring''III: ''Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes''III: ''Save that Poetic Fire''III: The Burial of SophoclesIII: ''So we lay down the Pen''
A Spring Harvest - Geoffrey Bache SMITH - Description and brief content, listen free online on the e-library site at Knigi-Audio.com/en/
