Tourist Trails

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

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

Date: 12/29/2019 2:04:00 PM

I know this scenery so well, Elisabeth. An idyllic memory of scenes now lost. // Barry

Elisabeth Sheaffer
Date: 1/3/2020 4:18:00 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!