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Collection C Adlestrop Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. 5 The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop—only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, 10 And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, 15 Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Edward Thomas 47
Home Thoughts from Abroad Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, 5 That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now! And after April, when May follows, 10 And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray’s edge— That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, 15 Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children’s dower 20 —Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Robert Browning 48
Page 1 and 2: Poetry Anthology The Pearson Edexce
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Page 6 and 7: Collection A La Belle Dame Sans Mer
Page 8 and 9: Collection A A Child to his Sick Gr
Page 10 and 11: Collection A A Complaint There is a
Page 12 and 13: Collection A Sonnet 43 How do I lov
Page 14 and 15: Collection A 30 Would draw from her
Page 16 and 17: Valentine, by Carol Ann Duffy This
Page 18 and 19: Collection A i wanna be yours let m
Page 20 and 21: Collection A Nettles My son aged th
Page 22: Collection A My Father Would Not Sh
Page 25 and 26: A Poison Tree I was angry with my f
Page 27 and 28: Extract from The Prelude One summer
Page 29 and 30: Cousin Kate I was a cottage-maiden
Page 31 and 32: Exposure Our brains ache, in the me
Page 33 and 34: The Charge of the Light Brigade Hal
Page 35 and 36: Catrin I can remember you, child, A
Page 37 and 38: Belfast Confetti Suddenly as the ri
Page 39 and 40: Poppies Three days before Armistice
Page 41 and 42: What Were They Like? 1) Did the peo
Page 43 and 44: To Autumn Season of mists and mello
Page 45 and 46: London I wander thro’ each charte
Page 47: Where the Picnic was Where we made
Page 51 and 52: Stewart Island ‘But look at all t
Page 53 and 54: Hurricane Hits England, by Grace Ni
Page 55 and 56: Postcard from a Travel Snob I do no
Page 57 and 58: Absence I visited the place where w
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