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Not Dead

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)

Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain,
I know that David’s with me here again.
All that is simple, happy, strong, he is.
Caressingly I stroke
Rough bark of the friendly oak.
A brook goes bubbling by: the voice is his.
Turf burns with pleasant smoke;
I laugh at chaffinch and at primroses.
All that is simple, happy, strong, he is.
Over the whole wood in a little while
Breaks his slow smile.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Scheme abCddcdeCff
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 408
Words 77
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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