From France
FROM FRANCE by ISAAC ROSENBERG
The spirit drank the Café lights; All the hot life that glittered there, And heard men say to women gay, 'Life is just so in France'.
The spirit dreams of Café lights, And golden faces and soft tones, And hears men groan to broken men, 'This is not Life in France'.
Heaped stones and a charred signboard shows With grass between and dead folk under, And some birds sing, while the spirit takes wing. And this is life in France.
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| Author | Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918) |
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| Title | From France |
| Item Date | 1977 |
| File type | Text |
| Content | Poem |
| Repository name | ProQuest |
| Repository URL | http://lion.chadwyk.co.uk |
| Copyright | The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate. Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted. |
| First line | The spirit drank the cafŽ lights |
| Publication source | The Collected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg |
| Publication editor | Bottomley, Gordon and Harding, Denys |
| Publishers | Chatto Windus Ltd. |
| Publication place | London |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3270 |
