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    Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Robert Graves

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    This 1917 collection of poems focuses on Graves's World War I experiences and his friendships with such fellow poet-soldiers as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.  The poems detail the horrors of war while celebrating the bonds between soldiers. Included in the collection are: “Goliath and David,” “When I’m Killed,” and “Letter to S. S. from Mametz Wood,” among others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    ISBN9781411448872
    Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    Robert Graves

    Robert Graves (1895-1985), born in London, was one of the most talented, colorful, and prolific men of letters in the twentieth century. He is best known for his historical novels, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. He spent much of his life on the island of Majorca.

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      Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Robert Graves

      FAIRIES AND FUSILIERS

      ROBERT GRAVES

      This 2011 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      Barnes & Noble, Inc.

      122 Fifth Avenue

      New York, NY 10011

      ISBN: 978-1-4114-4887-2

      CONTENTS

      TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC

      AN OLD TWENTY-THIRD MAN

      TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WAR—FOR THE FOURTH TIME

      TWO FUSILIERS

      TO ROBERT NICHOLS

      DEAD COW FARM

      GOLIATH AND DAVID

      BABYLON

      MR. PHILOSOPHER

      THE CRUEL MOON

      FINLAND

      A PINCH OF SALT

      THE CATERPILLAR

      SORLEY'S WEATHER

      THE COTTAGE

      THE LAST POST

      WHEN I'M KILLED

      LETTER TO S. S. FROM MAMETZ WOOD

      A DEAD BOCHE

      FAUN

      THE SPOILSPORT

      THE SHIVERING BEGGAR

      JONAH

      JOHN SKELTON

      I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED?

      DOUBLE RED DAISIES

      CAREERS

      I'D LOVE TO BE A FAIRY'S CHILD

      THE NEXT WAR

      STRONG BEER

      MARIGOLDS

      THE LADY VISITOR IN THE PAUPER WARD

      LOVE AND BLACK MAGIC

      SMOKE-RINGS

      A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE

      ESCAPE

      THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE

      NOT DEAD

      A BOY IN CHURCH

      CORPORAL STARE

      THE ASSAULT HEROIC

      THE POET IN THE NURSERY

      IN THE WILDERNESS

      CHERRY-TIME

      1915

      FREE VERSE

      TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC

      The great sun sinks behind the town

      Through a red mist of Volnay wine. . . .

      But what's the use of setting down

      That glorious blaze behind the town?

      You'll only skip the page, you'll look

      For newer pictures in this book;

      You've read of sunsets rich as mine.

      A fresh wind fills the evening air

      With horrid crying of night birds. . . .

      But what reads new or curious there

      When cold winds fly across the air?

      You'll only frown; you'll turn the page,

      But find no glimpse of your "New Age

      Of Poetry" in my worn-out words.

      Must winds that cut like blades of steel

      And sunsets swimming in Volnay,

      The holiest, cruellest pains I feel,

      Die stillborn, because old men squeal

      For something new: "Write something new:

      We've read this poem—that one too,

      And twelve more like 'em yesterday"?

      No, no! my chicken, I shall scrawl

      Just what I fancy as I strike it,

      Fairies and Fusiliers, and all

      Old broken knock-kneed thought will crawl

      Across my verse in the classic way.

      And,

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