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    Whipperginny

    By Robert Graves

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    "Whipperginny" by Robert Graves. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 29, 2019
    ISBN4057664589224
    Whipperginny
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    Robert Graves

    Robert Graves (1895–1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known for the historical novel I, Claudius and his critical study of myth and poetry in The White Goddess. His autobiography, Goodbye to All That, was originally published in 1929, quickly establishing itself as a modern classic. Graves also translated Apuleius, Lucan, and Suetonius, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths.

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      Whipperginny - Robert Graves

      Robert Graves

      Whipperginny

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4057664589224

      Table of Contents

      WHIPPERGINNY (A card game, obsolete.— Standard Dictionary.)

      THE BEDPOST

      A LOVER SINCE CHILDHOOD

      SONG OF CONTRARIETY

      THE RIDGE-TOP

      SONG IN WINTER

      UNICORN AND THE WHITE DOE

      SULLEN MOODS

      A FALSE REPORT

      CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (In their generation wiser than the children of Light.)

      RICHARD ROE AND JOHN DOE

      THE DIALECTICIANS

      THE LANDS OF WHIPPERGINNY (Heaven or Hell or the Lands of Whipperginny.—Nashe’s Jack Wilton .)

      THE GENERAL ELLIOTT

      A FIGHT TO THE DEATH

      OLD WIVES’ TALES

      CHRISTMAS EVE

      THE SNAKE AND THE BULL

      THE RED RIBBON DREAM

      IN PROCESSION

      HENRY AND MARY

      AN ENGLISH WOOD

      MIRROR, MIRROR!

      WHAT DID I DREAM?

      INTERLUDE: ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA

      (I)

      (II)

      A HISTORY OF PEACE (Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant)

      THE ROCK BELOW

      AN IDYLL OF OLD AGE

      THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TELLS OF A FAMOUS MEETING

      THE SEWING BASKET (Accompanying a wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts)

      AGAINST CLOCK AND COMPASSES

      THE AVENGERS

      ON THE POET’S BIRTH

      THE TECHNIQUE OF PERFECTION

      THE SIBYL

      A CRUSADER

      A NEW PORTRAIT OF JUDITH OF BETHULIA

      A REVERSAL

      THE MARTYRED DECADENTS: A SYMPATHETIC SATIRE

      EPIGRAMS

      ON CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

      A VILLAGE CONFLICT

      DEDICATORY

      A VEHICLE, TO WIT, A BICYCLE.

      MOTTO TO A BOOK OF EMBLEMS

      THE BOWL AND RIM

      A FORCED MUSIC

      THE TURN OF A PAGE

      THE MANIFESTATION IN THE TEMPLE

      TO ANY SAINT

      A DEWDROP

      A VALENTINE

      WHIPPERGINNY

      (A card game, obsolete.—Standard Dictionary.)

      Table of Contents

      To cards we have recourse

      When Time with cruelty runs,

      To courtly Bridge for stress of love,

      To Nap for noise of guns.

      On fairy earth we tread,

      No present problems vex

      Where man’s four humours fade to suits,

      With red and black for sex.

      Where phantom gains accrue

      By tricks instead of cash,

      Where pasteboard federacies of Powers

      In battles-royal clash.

      Then read the antique word

      That hangs above this page

      As type of mirth-abstracted joy,

      Calm terror, noiseless rage,

      A realm of ideal thought,

      Obscured by veils of Time,

      Cipher remote enough to stand

      As namesake for my rhyme,

      A game to play apart

      When all but crushed with care;

      Let right and left, your jealous hands,

      The lists of love prepare.

      THE BEDPOST

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      Sleepy Betsy from her pillow

      Sees the post and ball

      Of her sister’s wooden bedstead

      Shadowed on the wall.

      Now this grave young warrior standing

      With uncovered head

      Tells her stories of old battle,

      As she lies in bed.

      How the Emperor and the Farmer,

      Fighting knee to knee,

      Broke their swords but whirled their scabbards

      Till they gained the sea.

      How the ruler of that shore

      Foully broke his oath,

      Gave them beds in his sea cavern,

      Then stabbed them both.

      How the daughters

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