Late Harvest

About the Book

Exploring themes of love, death, war, suffering, and spiritual insight, this collection features carefully crafted poetry and humorous light verse, spanning decades of the author’s personal experience, while also touching on something of the universal human condition. Threnody This story must end as a threnody For poets know that lovers disappear, (Crying out: ‘Liebende, seid ihrs dann noch?) Leaving only ashes and faded petals In the rose garden with leaf-clogged fountains, Where no birds sing, cold breezes blow at nightfall, And the maze echoes with lost children’s voices, As the ruined house settles into silence Among the yew trees shading tumbled graves, Where crumbling names sink into mossy stone And time takes back what it so briefly dealt.

About the Author

J.D. Frodsham is currently Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He was a Major Scholar and later Bachelor Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took five first class Honours in four years, completing his PhD in Classical Chinese literature at the Australian National University. He has held Professorships in fourteen universities worldwide and has numerous scholarly publications, as well as being the author of two novels, ‘Fool’s Mate’ and ‘Crumbling Moon’.