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Whipperginny

by Robert Graves

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Author
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Credits
Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 20th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
58642
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58642
Release Date
January 7, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.WHIPPERGINNY
  2. 2.AUTHOR’S NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.WHIPPERGINNY (“A card game, obsolete.”— Standard Dictionary. )
  5. 5.THE BEDPOST
  6. 6.A LOVER SINCE CHILDHOOD
  7. 7.SONG OF CONTRARIETY
  8. 8.THE RIDGE-TOP
  9. 9.SONG IN WINTER
  10. 10.UNICORN AND THE WHITE DOE
  11. 11.SULLEN MOODS
  12. 12.A FALSE REPORT
  13. 13.CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (“In their generation wiser than the children of Light.”)
  14. 14.RICHARD ROE AND JOHN DOE
  15. 15.THE DIALECTICIANS
  16. 16.THE LANDS OF WHIPPERGINNY (“Heaven or Hell or the Lands of Whipperginny.”—Nashe’s Jack Wilton .)
  17. 17.“THE GENERAL ELLIOTT”
  18. 18.A FIGHT TO THE DEATH
  19. 19.OLD WIVES’ TALES
  20. 20.CHRISTMAS EVE
  21. 21.THE SNAKE AND THE BULL
  22. 22.THE RED RIBBON DREAM
  23. 23.IN PROCESSION
  24. 24.HENRY AND MARY
  25. 25.AN ENGLISH WOOD
  26. 26.MIRROR, MIRROR!
  27. 27.WHAT DID I DREAM?
  28. 28.INTERLUDE: ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA — (I) — (II)
  29. 29.A HISTORY OF PEACE (Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant)
  30. 30.THE ROCK BELOW
  31. 31.AN IDYLL OF OLD AGE
  32. 32.THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TELLS OF A FAMOUS MEETING
  33. 33.THE SEWING BASKET (Accompanying a wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts)
  34. 34.AGAINST CLOCK AND COMPASSES
  35. 35.THE AVENGERS
  36. 36.ON THE POET’S BIRTH
  37. 37.THE TECHNIQUE OF PERFECTION
  38. 38.THE SIBYL
  39. 39.A CRUSADER
  40. 40.A NEW PORTRAIT OF JUDITH OF BETHULIA
  41. 41.A REVERSAL
  42. 42.THE MARTYRED DECADENTS: A SYMPATHETIC SATIRE
  43. 43.EPIGRAMS — ON CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE — A VILLAGE CONFLICT — DEDICATORY — “ A VEHICLE, TO WIT, A BICYCLE.” — MOTTO TO A BOOK OF EMBLEMS
  44. 44.THE BOWL AND RIM
  45. 45.A FORCED MUSIC
  46. 46.THE TURN OF A PAGE
  47. 47.THE MANIFESTATION IN THE TEMPLE
  48. 48.TO ANY SAINT
  49. 49.A DEWDROP
  50. 50.A VALENTINE

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