Elisabeth Sheaffer Poet Alliteration

Notes About The Poem

Alliteration is the key feature of Ango-Saxon style verse.

Tourist Trails

Tourist Trails

Savouring the swathe of Southern England;
orchards, oast houses, open fields,
cliffs with caverns camera-worthy,
splashing sea and salty cooling breeze,
well-trodden trails, treasures from history,
hidden hostelries, houses of refreshment.

The descent from the Downs, dropping slowly
to moist meadows where men once toiled
among heaps of hay at harvest. All this
so peaceful,pastoral, pleasing; now long gone.

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Barry Stebbings December 29, 2019 at 2:04 PM I know this scenery so well, Elisabeth. An idyllic memory of scenes now lost. // Barry Elisabeth Sheaffer January 3, 2020 at 4:18 AM Thank you for your comments. There is a wonderful account of D.H.Lawrence and Eleanor Farjeon walking through this area in the early Twentieth Century in the book 'Edward Thomas -- The Last Four Years'. Magic!