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Ten Poems about Cricket

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And new-risen Lancashire the foe! A Shire so young that has scarce impressed its traces, Ah, how shall it stand before all-resistless Graces? O, little red rose, their bats are as maces The insomniaclistening to his heartthumping like a June bug,listening on his transistorto Long John Nebel arguing from New York,lying on his bed like a stone table,would understand. Recent times have seen a flood of new work as established poets (Gavin Ewart, Ted Hughes, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson, Simon Rae, Kit Wright and many others) have described rollers abandoned in woods, grim-faced rebels in South Africa, radio commentators, grimy urban pitches, classic matches and so forth. There are pen portraits of Grace, Ranji, Gunn, Trumper, Hammond, Verity, Compton, Bradman, Cowdrey and Lara. There are new accents from the Caribbean and India. And SJ Litherland has written a whole book on Nasser Hussain (“Hooded eyes of ancestry/ Wait like a bird of prey”). No ball. There is a ball but it was not bowled correctly and the batsman gets a free shot and an extra run.

To Be Amused You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling mad, Australia races to her doom. It was Gavaskar The real master Just like a wall We couldn't out Gavaskar at all Not at all You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all. A. E. Housman [ edit ]

The author begins her dissertation by tracing “spirit,” to its Latin root spirare, breath. It is no coincidence that the Greek “pneuma,” and Hebrew "ruach", both share the same meanings. Breathe, inspire, fill with spirit. To live is to be inspired. But anyway I am indoors, of course, and this is a pane, here,and I have arranged the flowers for youagain.

They are come from the West to work thee woe! It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, The only useful answer is that I have found a new audience, and I have somehow, unconsciously, and yet, calculatedly, managed to shape my work around this audience. There is something impure, something unessential, something seemingly crass about this confession. I am left wondering what else I have abandoned for America; I wonder what else I have discarded so I can be a poet in America. And how bad is this? How serious a failure is this of my art?

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Good captaincy from Len Hutton, but the honours must go to Typhoon Tyson. [15] Gavaskar Calypso [ edit ]

Better to watch the streamthat flows across the floorand is made of sunlight,the forest made of shadows;better to watch the fireplacewhich is now a beach. Twice a Week the Winter Thorough Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's soul.

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He feigned sleep howeverand the princesses sprang out of their bedsand fussed around like a Miss America Contest. Robert Winder is the former literary editor at The Independent, author of The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden and a former member of playwright Harold Pinter’s team, the Gaeities. Topics

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