Poetry Drawer: Gustav Holst Considers a Pebble While Composing ‘The Planets’: Rivers in the Dorian Mode: Coln St. Aldwyns by Neil Leadbeater
Gustav Holst Considers a Pebble While Composing ‘The Planets’ He cradles its convexitiesin the palm of his hand,feels its significance,weighs its bulk. Striated it could be Saturn,whose drawn linesare deeply scarredfrom hard-earned experience. Pockmarked with craters,it could have been Mars. … Continue reading