Bettie's Books

Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1418To Nancy Nicholson Note: Some of the poems included in this volume have appeared in "The New Statesman", "The Owl", "Reveille", "Land and Water", "Poetry", and other papers, English and American.Robert Graves.Harlech,North Wales. A FROSTY NIGHT. Mother:Alice, dear, what ails you, Dazed and white and shaken? Has the chill night numbed you? Is it fright you have taken? Alice: Mother, I am very well, I felt never better, Mother, do not hold me so, Let me write my letter.SOSPAN FACH. (The Little Saucepan) Four collier lads from Ebbw Vale Took shelter from a shower of hail, And there beneath a spreading tree Attuned their mouths to harmony. With smiling joy on every face Two warbled tenor, two sang bass, And while the leaves above them hissed with Rough hail, they started "Aberystwyth."Had to laugh at 'The First Review'!