A Spring Harvest

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I must say, as rather a large quantity of you must have, I have been drawn to his poems after seeing the film, Tolkien. My heart ached after seeing this film, I had merely a vague thought that there was some kind of unrequited love from Geoffrey to Tolkien, I thought to myself that maybe I was mistaken, but after reading some other comments I can see it clearly, I wasn't, and after reading some of his poems, it has come to my mind, how can such pure love be created? in my life, god punishes me if I may lie, but I have never experience that kind of altruism, his love was purely light, it was gentle to the touch, and every word he wrote..., it diminished me to ashes, I can always be mistaken, but curse my tongue if I am now, for I say, when I read the poems that were especially focused on their friendship, I couldn't fell other sensation but the purest embodiment of what is truly to love someone, fiercely, without a doubt. Yeah, at first I had no idea what was going on (it starts out with an epic poem--or something like it--and the symbolism was completely lost on me). But, as I kept reading, the poems I came across were something I could relate to. Or something I understood, even though I've never experienced war and the constant fear of death.

Spring gardening may seem like a lot of work with sowing seeds, cleaning debris, and sheltering the plants that need it, but if you plan ahead and have proper supplies, you can enjoy each part of the process. Varieties such as ‘Autumn King’ or ‘Sytan’ can be sown in late summer for harvesting in spring. Perpetual Spinach (Leaf Beet) In the wind’s wild harmony. Ære Perennius Written on Commemoration Sunday, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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A Spring Harvest is a collection of poetry by Geoffrey Bache Smith, one of the T.C.B.S.. It contains a prefatory note by J.R.R. Tolkien. Geoffrey Bache Smith is the poet and this is the volume wherein I have appreciated each and every verse. At first I presumed I was merely biased and enthusiastic about the close connection to Tolkien (whose writing I love), but realized there have been countless poems (and poets) in my reading history for which I had an unconscious bias yet they failed to deliver according to my expectations, though they were highly praised by friends or were connected in some way as to make me more apt to be favorably swayed. Since it hasn't worked before, I think it's fair to assume: Last Poems are Smith's heartbreaking war poems. “Let Us Tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes” is a lament for the lost time when a group of four boys who met at King Edward’s School and for the tragic death of one in 1916 (Gilson, aged 23, during the Battle of the Somme.) Smith was not to know he would die later the same year, shortly after the Battle of the Somme. Ave atque Vale (Hail and Farewell) describes of his love of Oxford and the university colleges which too many will never see again:

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Kale is a very hardy crop that can be sown in early summer for a winter or spring harvest, depending on sowing date. I used to grow “1000 head kale’ as a cattle forage crop. Sown in May or June it would be grazed in late autumn or winter. Later sowings would be grazed in spring, before the new grass growth. Spinach Using cold frames are ideal, which allows you to grow things like leafy greens and cabbages all year round. 13 Vegetables to Plant in the Fall for a Spring Harvest It's very unfortunate we'll never get to read any more of Smith's work, for it seems to me that he had the potential to become an accomplished and celebrated poet of his time, had he not fallen during The Great War in 1916. The loving way he writes of singing birds, of the sea, of the howling wind, and of his best friends (Tolkien being one of them, naturally) conveys to me the musings and daydreaming of a bright, optimistic young man with a kind and gentle soul. Electronic version published January 2015 by Andrew Dunning from scans by the British Library; public domain. Available as an e-book through Project Gutenberg.] Note

Sow the cloves 2 inches deep in the soil. Snip off any flower shoots that may sprout in spring, as they will slow the bulb growth. How to plant a spring garden Like many people (I suspect) I first heard of Geoffrey Bache Smith's poems through the movie Tolkien, that came out in 2019 and starred Nicholas Hoult as a very young JRR Tolkien before he began studying old and middle English at Oxford University. Smith was one of Tolkien's four closest friends (including Christopher Wiseman and Robert Gilson) from his school days at King Edward's school in Birmingham. In 1914 the four young men joined up to fight in WW1. Only two of them came home.

I see a lot of Tolkien in Smith's reverence for nature, his love of myths, and his obsession with time and history and aging (his reiterating of the word 'grey' in many of his poems stands out particularly in my mind). While a couple of the poems strike me as written by a slightly unexperienced hand, most are very pleasant to read and many have moments of exceeding beauty and profundity. The festival arose in the late 1970s at a time when evangelicalism was growing in the UK and there was uncertainty as to how that movement would relate with Church of England and evangelicals within it; the event, among few others at the time, welcomed all evangelical Christians, [3] :292–293 including people within and outside the charismatic movement. [2] :245 Hylson-Smith comments that non-denominational activities such as Spring Harvest did much to encourage pan-evangelicalism which tended to minimise historical differences between denominations [2] :247 The garlic will be ready to harvest in the middle of summer. You’ll know it’s time when the outer leaves of the plant die off and turn brown. To harvest your garlic crop, carefully dig each bulb out of the ground.