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Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 The Unfailing Spring
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Notes

  • Epigraph: The wild bird has his song / Tuned to a single note, / Yet all the flood of Summer / Pours from his throat. // Mine is a single theme - / The unvanquished heart of man, / Yet all are blind tomorrows / Crouch in that narrow span.

Contents

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Favil Press , 1943 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
September Holiday,1939 September Holidayi"All Nature's agents image war to me.", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 1)
Not Only Cowardsi"Not only cowards die before their death,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 1)
In the Midst of Life Is Deathi"Within the flower, the root;", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 2)
The Unfailing Springi"Though war encrusts the mind,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 2)
The Poplarsi"Where the moorland ends and the oakwood glooms,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 3)
By the Caravan at Nighti"I kick the dull wood-ash across the grass.", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 4)
Before the Dawni"This backwash of night before the dawn,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 4)
Out of the Morningi"Out of the morning, grey as smoke,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 5)
To Gerard Manley Hopkinsi"So turned was tongue never, nor tuned as this;", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 6)
Seagullsi"More than birds' music,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 6)
After Ronsardi"When you are old, and spinning quietly", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 7)
To a Young Girli"Were you ever young", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 8)
Elizabethan Sonneti"Like as the sun appears at break of day,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 9)
On a Saying of Lao Tzui"'Without a ruler,' said Tsui Chu,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Red Beech Woodi"Incendiary Autumn burns the tall wood,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 10)
Winter Radioi"As evening draws blinds across my windows,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 11)
Fountain Court Before the War Fountain Courti"The sunlight slants between the once-red buildings", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 11)
Note: With title: Fountain Court Before the War
The Living Christi"He has not died, this Christ, he has not died", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 13)
For Christmasi"The sun's flight was turned", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 13)
Mozart in Viennai"O listen! listen! where he knocks again,", Clive Sansom , single work poetry (p. 14)

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Works about this Work

Clive Sansom Owen W. Reid , 1965 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , December vol. 17 no. 3 1965; (p. 130-133)
Clive Sansom Owen W. Reid , 1965 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , December vol. 17 no. 3 1965; (p. 130-133)
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