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A Spring Harvest

A Spring Harvest

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Number of Chapters: 51

Length: 01 hour and 31 minutes

Language: English

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

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Introductory Note (Devorah Allen)
I: Glastonbury (Ellies)
I: Legend (Larry Wilson)
II: Rime (Larry Wilson)
II: To an Elzevir Cicero (Chris Pyle)
II: To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour (Chris Pyle)
II: Pure Virginia (Chris Pyle)
II: A Preface for a Tale I have never told (Devorah Allen)
II: A Sonnet (Bruce Kachuk)
II: ''It was all in the Black Countree'' (Bruce Kachuk)
II: To a Pianist (Bruce Kachuk)
II: A Fragment (Bruce Kachuk)
II: Sea Poppies (Bruce Kachuk)
II: ''O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind'' (Larry Wilson)
II: Ære Perennius (Ellies)
II: The Old Kings (Stefan Von Blon)
II: ''O there be Kings whose Treasuries'' (Bruce Kachuk)
II: A Study (Stefan Von Blon)
II: The Eremite (Bruce Kachuk)
II: The House of Eld (Bruce Kachuk)
II: The South-west Wind (Bruce Kachuk)
II: Schumann: Erstes Verlust (Bruce Kachuk)
II: ''Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky'' (Benjamin Davis)
II: ''Wind of the Darkness'' (Benjamin Davis)
II: Creator Spiritus (Benjamin Davis)
II: Wind over the Sea (Larry Wilson)
II: Songs on the Downs (Benjamin Davis)
III: ''We who have bowed ourselves to Time'' (KevinS)
III: Anglia Valida in Senectute (KevinS)
III: ''Dark is the World our Fathers left us'' (KevinS)
III: Awakening (KevinS)
III: Ave atque Vale (KevinS)
III: ''O, one came down from Seven Hills'' (KevinS)
III: Sonnet to the British Navy (KevinS)
III: The Last Meeting (KevinS)
III: The New Age and the Old (KevinS)
III: To the Cultured (KevinS)
III: Afterwards (KevinS)
III: Domum redit Poeta (KevinS)
III: Memories (KevinS)
III: Intercessional (KevinS)
III: April 1916 (KevinS)
III: ''Over the Hills and Hollows Green'' (KevinS)
III: Sonnet (KevinS)
III: ''O Long the Fiends of War shall dance'' (KevinS)
III: For R. Q. G. (Devorah Allen)
III: ''Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring'' (KevinS)
III: ''Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes'' (KevinS)
III: ''Save that Poetic Fire'' (KevinS)
III: The Burial of Sophocles (Devorah Allen)
III: ''So we lay down the Pen'' (Devorah Allen)
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