Whims and Moods de Thomas Thornely

Whims and Moods

Thomas Thornely

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2015

Originally published in 1930, this book contains poems on a variety of subjects written by Thomas Thornely, a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The text will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Thornely and English poetry.

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Apologia pro libro meo; Retirement; Three score and ten; A last prayer; Dreams and Freudians; Pillage and litter; Monkey tricks; Fenland in winter; The bird of hope; 'Flu'; A mountain harebell; An arran burn; Midges; Fiction old and new; Griefs; Pleadings and verdict; A fenland stream; The choice; Source and goal; The ultra-modernist poet; My pipe; Job; Some similes; The ichthyosaurus; The lost mammalian eye; The nightingale and her rivals; The ostrich; Bard and nee; An east wind; The whale; To my sub-liminal self; The loveless sea; Kindly death; The trapped squirrel; The Neanderthal man; The crocodile's apologia; The lost chance; On hanging up the vanes of an aeroplane; Fortune's web; Man and his dwelling-place; The last abbot; Mrs Thomas Atkins; The world of sense; A Cambridge plaint; Chance and change; Threshed out; A rebuke; The explorers; The seasons; The river manifold; Soundings; The puff-adder; Dream-plots; Exile; Dolce far niente; Identity; Gleam and eddy; A garden tragedy; The maestro; Bickerings; Treason; A wild flower catechized; The four pilgrims; The fens; Armenia; The measured arc; Erin (1920); A lost home; Respite; On receiving a new weed poison warranted to kill nettles; Salvage; An anticipated judgment; A nocturne; The wasp that was; The 'high places'; Question and suggestion; A dogmatic statement; A 'beauty spot'; The chief scout; Use and beauty; Gift of song; A winter hoard; The trial of reason; Old Hodge; The delectable mountains; Age to youth; The deposed atom; Wizardry; Ghosts as guests; Hero vs zeitgeist; The chrysopas; Winter beauty; Moss Eccles Tarn; Birth and wirth; An Aberdeen terrier; Blakeney; Tiresias wanted; Insomnia; 'Rivers blent'; A summary; Safety first; To the sun; The chameleon; Doleful dumps; Summer-time in leap-year; On St Bees Head; Birth of a flower; Hope and hate; Force and reason; The lying compass; A piece of folly; The immortals; Blackthorn and hawthorn; The little owl; The Mississippi floods; Drought; 'The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts'; A garden rose; Three anticipatory epitaphs; The ray.