Gwethalyn Graham's novel Earth and High Heaven takes its title from a poem from this collection, and that poem mentions a time when, "Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry" and ends with the speaker asking, "O why did I awake?
Gwethalyn Graham's novel Earth and High Heaven takes its title from a poem from this collection, and that poem mentions a time when, "Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry" and ends with the speaker asking, "O why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?". Another poem in this collection states, "But play the man, stand up and end you,/When the sickness is your soul," and those poems are "Be still, my soul, be still" and "If it chance your eye offend you". The speaker of another poem in this collection is assured, "Your girl is well contented," by a friend who states, "I cheer a dead man's sweetheart,/Never ask me whose," while other poems mention the "loveliest of trees" and state, "if ‘tis dancing you would be/There's brisker pipes than poetry." For 10 points, name this collection which includes "Is my team ploughing" and "Terence, this is stupid stuff", written by A. E. Housman.
Gwethalyn Graham's novel Earth and High Heaven takes its title from a poem from this collection, and that poem mentions a time when, "Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry" and ends with the speaker asking, "O why did I awake?
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