Tag: john barleycorn
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Light garden symphony I
Violent veinblue fruits, humid and gelid, frigid fruits growing in pair in parity Pears like misshapen timers depend from branches, inching in rarified air Cloistered bower like a statue of old power, He glowering from flowerbeds Arising clod-capped his foliate head, beleafed, beneath a crown thrifted from reeds And driftwood, verdigris forming a hood, his…
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Green and Beautiful
Much spirit is mended seeing lands well tended since ancient time Lines dividing fields drawn by hands steel-strong in ages when divine agents oversaw the raising of gargantuan henges When crops failed, farmers grew vengeful Reaving pale eel gatherers from their fens, blaming them for blighted stems which greeted picking men they had sent out.…
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