Whipperginny. Robert Graves

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       Robert Graves

      Whipperginny

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664589224

      Table of Contents

       WHIPPERGINNY (“A card game, obsolete.”— Standard Dictionary.)

       THE BEDPOST

       A LOVER SINCE CHILDHOOD

       SONG OF CONTRARIETY

       THE RIDGE-TOP

       SONG IN WINTER

       UNICORN AND THE WHITE DOE

       SULLEN MOODS

       A FALSE REPORT

       CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (“In their generation wiser than the children of Light.”)

       RICHARD ROE AND JOHN DOE

       THE DIALECTICIANS

       THE LANDS OF WHIPPERGINNY (“Heaven or Hell or the Lands of Whipperginny.”—Nashe’s Jack Wilton .)

       “THE GENERAL ELLIOTT”

       A FIGHT TO THE DEATH

       OLD WIVES’ TALES

       CHRISTMAS EVE

       THE SNAKE AND THE BULL

       THE RED RIBBON DREAM

       IN PROCESSION

       HENRY AND MARY

       AN ENGLISH WOOD

       MIRROR, MIRROR!

       WHAT DID I DREAM?

       INTERLUDE: ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA

       (I)

       (II)

       A HISTORY OF PEACE (Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant)

       THE ROCK BELOW

       AN IDYLL OF OLD AGE

       THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TELLS OF A FAMOUS MEETING

       THE SEWING BASKET (Accompanying a wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts)

       AGAINST CLOCK AND COMPASSES

       THE AVENGERS

       ON THE POET’S BIRTH

       THE TECHNIQUE OF PERFECTION

       THE SIBYL

       A CRUSADER

       A NEW PORTRAIT OF JUDITH OF BETHULIA

       A REVERSAL

       THE MARTYRED DECADENTS: A SYMPATHETIC SATIRE

       EPIGRAMS

       ON CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

       A VILLAGE CONFLICT

       DEDICATORY

       “ A VEHICLE, TO WIT, A BICYCLE.”

       MOTTO TO A BOOK OF EMBLEMS

       THE BOWL AND RIM

       A FORCED MUSIC

       THE TURN OF A PAGE

       THE MANIFESTATION IN THE TEMPLE

       TO ANY SAINT

       A DEWDROP