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<\/a><\/p>\nI’d watched the sorrow of the evening sky,
\nAnd smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover,
\nAnd heard the waves, and the seagull’s mocking cry.<\/p>\n
And in them all was only the old cry,
\nThat song they always sing — “The best is over!
\nYou may remember now, and think, and sigh,
\nO silly lover!”
\nAnd I was tired and sick that all was over,
\nAnd because I,
\nFor all my thinking, never could recover
\nOne moment of the good hours that were over.
\nAnd I was sorry and sick, and wished to die.<\/p>\n
Then from the sad west turning wearily,
\nI saw the pines against the white north sky,
\nVery beautiful, and still, and bending over
\nTheir sharp black heads against a quiet sky.
\nAnd there was peace in them; and I
\nWas happy, and forgot to play the lover,
\nAnd laughed, and did no longer wish to die;
\nBeing glad of you, O pine-trees and the sky!<\/p>\n
Rupert Brooke, 1887 – 1915<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
I am starting my year in poetry by featuring poems that focus on trees \u2014 but which also highlight the human emoional and psychological connection to trees. I thought this one was particularly interesting, in that respect.<\/p>\n
To find out more about why I\u2019m posting about trees, click on: I’d watched the sorrow of the evening sky, And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover, And heard the waves, and the seagull’s mocking cry. And in them all was only the old cry, That song they always sing — “The best is over! You may remember now, and think, and sigh, O […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31381,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379\/revisions\/31381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nSpeaking for the Trees<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"