28 NOVEMBER 1987, page 38
The Terror On The Move
Geoffrey Wheatcroft THE PEOPLE'S ARMIES by Richard Cobb translated by Marianne Elliott Yale £30, £9.95 : I accept the Republic.' But do you accept the Revolution?' T he exchange......
Estuary At Twilight
As though they were the whitecaps On night's incoming tide Which, cold and stiff, the off-shore winds Had somehow petrified, Egrets stand in the freezing shallows Along the......
Sky
In meticulous sky-scrutiny A whole long day went by: I measured it with where and what, I prodded it with why And in the end concluded There was nothing there but sky. Tsuboi......
Of All The Wild Absurdities With Which The Heart Can
cram Its sad asylum, none's more daft Than this mad need, this damn- Idiot ache to be with you When I already am. Kiyowara no Fukayabu (early 9th century)......
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