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Many Voices

E. Nesbit

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This book of poems has many elements which would appeal to children but there’s also some exploration of her feelings of love, lust and longing which your average 10 year old would find downright yucky. There are also moments of joy, moments of sugary sweetness and moments of sharp insight in this collection which contains views from many angles.

Recurring themes of love, death, gardens and fairies give us a fine insight into the lively imagination of E. Nesbit.
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I was yours
For the love in life that loves while life endures,
For the earth-path that the Heaven-flight ensures
I was yours.

You were mine
For the moment that a garland takes to twine,
For the human hour that sorcery shews divine
You were mine.

All is over.
You and I no more are love and lover;
Nought's to seek now, gain, attain, discover.
All is over.

POEM: THE GIFT OF LIFE

Life is a night all dark and wild,
Yet still stars shine:
This moment is a star, my child -
Your star and mine.

Life is a desert dry and drear,
Undewed, unblest;
This hour is an oasis, dear;
Here let us rest.

Life is a sea of windy spray,
Cold, fierce and free:
An isle enchanted is to-day
For you and me.

Forget night, sea, and desert: take
The gift supreme,
And, of life's brief relenting, make
A deathless dream.

POEM: INCOMPATIBILITIES

If you loved me I could trust you to your fancy's furthest bound
While the sun shone and the wind blew, and the world went round,
To the utmost of the meshes of the devil's strongest net . . .
If you loved me, if you loved me—but you do not love me yet!

I love you—and I cannot trust you further than the door!
But winds and worlds and seasons change, and you will love me more
And more—until I trust you, dear, as women do trust men -
I shall trust you, I shall trust you, but I shall not love you
then!

POEM: THE STOLEN GOD—LAZARUS TO DIVES

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Abby 08/01/2023
Most of the poems were fair. But a handful were excellent and really stuck with me
Kirstie 04/04/2016
I wasn't aware this was all poetry which isn't my favourite form of writing. However I quite enjoyed it.

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