 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 146geredigeerd door - 1926Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1916 - 986 pagina’s
...stupidities of the war this for the moment seemed to me the most crass. Here was a beautiful creature — A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave...England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blessed by suns of home, with the youth in his limbs, the light in his face, the hope in his heart,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1921 - 1004 pagina’s
...Brooke?" "Oh, yes, yes." Her voice tripped in its eagerness. " I know one by heart "'If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be ' " He cut in "on the magical little voice roughly. " Ah, what damned nonsense ! Do you suppose he's... | |
 | 1915 - 988 pagina’s
...Drinkwater, and Mr. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. IF I SHOULD DIE BY BUPEBT BROOKE If I should die. think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That Is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
 | 1918 - 550 pagina’s
...extra-territorial sovereignty upon the spot where he will lie in death: — If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign...body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by her rivers, blest by suns of home. And think this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal... | |
 | 1917 - 428 pagina’s
...now dead in the Aegean Isles, who, foreseeing his end, thus wrote of the land that gave him birth : there's some corner of a foreign field . That is for...love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home." And so you today, my young friends,... | |
 | Nantucket Historical Association - 1915 - 354 pagina’s
...Perchance at times the inspired lines of Rupert Brooke flash through her memory: If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England; there shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1917 - 428 pagina’s
...chime out from old elm-hidden towers. Even in death do these things endure. If I should die, think only this of me That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England, wrote Rupert Brooke, dying and giving to Lemnos a new beauty, thoughts of the cool woods, the wild... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 192 pagina’s
...the noblest English poetry does not speak to us in those lines. And again: "If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign...love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. "This — this music, this beauty,... | |
 | Clarence Walker Barron - 1915 - 216 pagina’s
...American, but that a Harvard man, should have risen to the occasion." THE SOLDIER. If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign...That Is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers... | |
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