Callow Captain
CALLOW CAPTAIN by ROBERT GRAVES
The sun beams jovial from an ancient sky, Flooding the round hills with heroic spate. A callow captain, glaring, sword at thigh, Trots out his charger through the camp gate. Soon comes the hour, his marriage hour, and soon He fathers children, reigns with ancestors Who, likewise serving in the wars, won For a much-tattered flag renewed honours.
A wind ruffles the book, and he whose name Was mine vanishes; all is at an end. Fortunate soldier: to be spared shame Of chapter-years unprofitable to spend, To ride off into reticence, nor throw Before the story-sun a long shadow.
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| Author | Graves, Robert (1895-1985) |
|---|---|
| Title | Callow Captain |
| Item Date | (1995, 1997, 1999) |
| File type | Text |
| Content | Poem |
| Repository name | ProQuest |
| Repository URL | http://lion.chawyck.co.uk |
| Copyright | The Robert Graves Copyright Trust |
| First line | The sun beams jovial from an ancient sky, |
| Publication source | Robert Graves Complete Poems: Volumes 1 - 3 |
| Publication editor | Graves, Beryl and Ward, Dunstan |
| Publishers | Carcanet |
| Publication place | Manchester |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3389 |
