Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The New Poets of England and America
Young poetry is the breath of parted
lips.
-Robert Frost, introduction
The New Poets of England and America
They’re no longer new;
they’re not even alive
Those post-war young voices
of strength and hope
Working through the
wastelands after men of destiny
Blitzed beauty with bullets,
bombers, and barbed wire
Some of them soldiers, and war-weary
all
They were worn out, but determined
and young
Digging out the words they
had hidden away
Cleaning them up for service
to humanity
They were young; they were
very much like you
Doing their duty as artists
and poets must do
The New
Poets of England and America
Ed. Donald
Hall et al
Introduction
by Robert Frost
New York:
Meridian Books, 1957
