Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Words of a Poem by Herbert Read
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Words of a Poem by Herbert Read
Date1944
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2306
Date Order NumberAG 46.60
PaperJ. Whatman off-white medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 156 x 117 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
Inscriptionpencil, white wax crayon u.l. 1945; pen and ink u.l. They came running over the perilous sands/Children with their golden eyes/Crying: Look! We have found samphire/Holding out their bone-ridden hands./It might have been the spittle of wrens/or the silver nest of a squirrel/For I was invested with the darkness/Of an ancient quarrel whose omens/Lay scattered on the silted beach/The children came returning towards me/But I saw only the waves behind them//Cold salt and disastrous/Lift their black banners and break/Endlessly, without resurrection.
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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