<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507190" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Robert Nichols</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(From Frise on the Somme in February, 1917, in answer to a letter saying: “I am just finishing my ‘Faun’s Holiday.’ I wish you were here to feed him with cherries.”)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Here by a snowbound river <br>In scrapen holes we shiver, <br>And like old bitterns we <br>Boom to you plaintively: <br>Robert, how can I rhyme<br>Verses for your desire— <br>Sleek fauns and cherry-time, <br>Vague music and green trees, <br>Hot sun and gentle breeze, <br>England in June attire,<br>And life born young again, <br>For your gay goatish brute <br>Drunk with warm melody <br>Singing on beds of thyme <br>With red and rolling eye,<br>Waking with wanton lute <br>All the Devonian plain, <br>Lips dark with juicy stain, <br>Ears hung with bobbing fruit? <br>Why should I keep him time?<br>Why in this cold and rime, <br>Where even to dream is pain? <br>No, Robert, there’s no reason: <br>Cherries are out of season, <br>Ice grips at branch and root,<br>And singing birds are mute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507190" data-title="To Robert Nichols de Robert Graves" data-description="(From Frise on the Somme in February, 1917, in answer to a letter saying: “I am just finishing my ‘Faun’s Holiday.’ I wish you were here to feed him with cherries.”) Here by a snowbound river In scrapen holes we shiver, And like old ..."></div> </div> </div>

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