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Articles by Charles Causley
Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast by Charles Causley
(24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
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To Poetry Please By Roger McGough Extract from Joined Up Writing By Roger McGough Extract from Roger McGough’s poem for Charles Causley on his 70th birthday Eden Rock By Charles Causley Collected Poems 1951-1997 Published by Macmillan A Child is Singing By Adrian Mitchell From Come on Everybody Published by Bloodaxe Extract from Figs from Thistles: First Fig By Edna St. Vincent Millay From Collected Poems Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Travel By Edna St Vincent Millay From...
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
I walked where in their talking graves And shirts of earth five thousand lay, When history with ten feasts of fire Had eaten the red air away. ‘I am Christ’s boy,’ I cried. ‘I bear In iron hands the bread, the fishes. I hang with honey and with rose This tidy wreck of all your wishes. ‘On your geometry of sleep The chestnut and the fir-tree fly, And lavender and marguerite Forge with their flowers an English sky.
I am the Great Sun by Charles Causley
From a Normandy crucifix of 1632 I am the great sun, but you do not see me, I am your husband, but you turn away. I am the captive, but you do not free me, I am the captain but you will not obey. I am the truth, but you will not believe me, I am the city where you will not stay. I am your wife, your child, but you will leave me, I am that God to whom you will not pray. I am your counsel, but you will not hear me, I am your lover whom you will betray.
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