The Golden Helm, and Other Verse

"The Golden Helm, and Other Verse" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson is a compilation of English poetry. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work. Excerpt: «The Torch Through skies blown clear by storm, o'er storm-spent seas, Day kindled pale with promise of full noon Of blue unclouded; no night-weary wind Ruffled the slumberous, heaving deeps to white, Though round the Farne Isles the waves never sink In foamless sleep–about the pillared crags For ever circling with unresting spray. At dawn's first glimmer, from his island-cell– Rock-hewn, secure from tempest–Oswald came…»