History & Politics
Responsibility
From Poems 1908-1919
History & Politics
You ploughmen at the gate,
All that you are for me
Is of my mind create,
And in my brain to be
A figure newly won
From the world’s confusion.
And if you are of grace,
That’s honesty for me,
And if of evil face,
Recorded then shall be
Dishonour that I saw
Not beauty, but the flaw.
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Drinkwater, John. “Responsibility.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drinkwater/111/.
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Drinkwater, John. “Responsibility.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drinkwater/111/.
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