Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG
poem, because I liked it myself above anything I
have yet done. I know my letters are not what
they should be ; but I must take any chance I get
of writing for fear another chance does not come,
so I write hastily and leave out most I should
write about.
I wished to say last time a lot about
your poem, but I could think of nothing that
would properly express my great pleasure in it
and I can think of nothing now.
If anything, I
think it is too brief—although it is so rare and
compressed and full of hinted matter. I wish I
could get back and read your plays ; and if my
luck still continues, I shall. Leaves have commenced
with us, but it may be a good while before
I get mine. We are more busy now than when I
last wrote, but I generally manage to knock something
up if my brain means to, and I am sketching
out a little play. My great fear is that I may
lose what Eve written, which can happen here so
easily. I send home any bit I write, for safety,
but that can easily get lost in transmission.
However, I live in an immense trust that things
will turn out well."
To Gordon Bottomhy (1917).
"The other poems I have not yet read, but I will
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