If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her... The Canadian Law Times - Page 6781918Full view - About this book
| American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...stupidities of the war this for the moment seemed to me the most crass. Here was a beautiful creature — A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blessed by suns of home, with... | |
| 1915 - 990 pages
...Lascelles Abercrombie, Mr. John Drinkwater, and Mr. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. IF I SHOULD DIE BY BUPEBT BROOKE If I should die. think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That Is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
| American fiction - 1918 - 550 pages
...like a high ambassador extra-territorial sovereignty upon the spot where he will lie in death: — If I should die, think only this of me : That there's...aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by her rivers, blest by suns of home. And... | |
| Universities and colleges - 1917 - 428 pages
...now dead in the Aegean Isles, who, foreseeing his end, thus wrote of the land that gave him birth : there's some corner of a foreign field . That is for...aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of... | |
| Nantucket Historical Association - Local history - 1915 - 354 pages
...for which he fought. Perchance at times the inspired lines of Rupert Brooke flash through her memory: If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England; there shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
| Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1915 - 346 pages
...a white Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance, A width, a shining peace, under the night. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me : That there's...aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And... | |
| Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1915 - 380 pages
...a white Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance, A width, a shining peace, under the night. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me: That there's...aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1915 - 652 pages
...Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson as compared with the examples given in THE POETRY REVIEW three years ago : If I should die, think only this of me : That there's...aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And... | |
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