Frances Darwin Cornford Grass Poems

• 1. To A Lady Seen From The Train
  O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
  Missing so much and so much?
  O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
  Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
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• 2. In France
  The poplars in the fields of France
  Are golden ladies come to dance ;
  But yet to see them there is none
  But I and the September sun.
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• 3. Feri's Dream
  I Had a little dog, and my dog was very small;
  He licked me in the face, and he answered to my call;
  Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
  
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• 4. The Coast: Norfolk
  As on the highway's quiet edge
  He mows the grass beside the hedge,
  The old man has for company
  The distant, grey, salt-smelling sea,
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• 5. The Old Witch In The Copse
  I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch,
  There's many a one knows that--
  Alone I live in my little dark house
  With Pillycock, my cat.
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• 6. Autumn Morning At Cambridge
  I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean and new,
  And all the grass was glittering and grey with autumn dew,
  I ran out to the apple tree and pulled an apple down,
  And all the bells were ringing in the old grey town.
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