The Ruins of Time: Antiquarian and Archaeological Poems

by Thwaite, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780907871989
• ISBN10: 0907871984
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Eland Pub Ltd

Summary

A collection of poetry dedicated to the broken gate of a rocky citadel, the ivy-clad ruins of a Gothic tower, tottering temple columns haunted only by owls, and the jungle-entombed traces of a vast trading city - the physical icons of a romantic engagement with the past. They have always fuelled our passion for travel and they have always provoked the poets, by the secrets that they guard, the mute lessons they preach, and the silent warnings they offer.

Table of Contents

The ruin	p. 10
The ruines of time	p. 12
Sir Thomas Browne	p. 14
James Cawthorn	p. 15
The progress of error	p. 18
Ozymandias	p. 19
Ode on a Grecian urn	p. 20
from Guilt and sorrow	p. 23
Roman antiquities	p. 24
from Amours de Voyages	p. 25
In the old theatre, Fiesole	p. 27
On Wenlock Edge	p. 29
Selibra Cineris Coacta Cani	p. 30
Swedes	p. 34
Digging	p. 35
The Roman centurion's song	p. 36
The land	p. 38
Roman wall blues	p. 41
An Arundel Tomb	p. 42
Punishment	p. 44
Thistles	p. 46
Merlin	p. 47
Mercian hymns : I	p. 47
Ballade to a prehistorian	p. 50
Congress of archaeological societies	p. 51
Agatha Christie	p. 52
Proposal for a survey	p. 53
Unfinished chronicle	p. 56
Words at Wharram Percy	p. 59
Monologue in the Valley of the Kings	p. 61
The return	p. 63
Archacology	p. 67
Sigma	p. 69
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