-
Poems Written at Teignmouth(二)
2023-12-06Where be you going, You devon maid? "There's a bit of doggerel; you would like a bit of botheral." Where be you going, you Devon maid? A...
-
The Dancer at Cruachan and Cro-Patrick
2023-12-06I, proclaiming that there is Among birds or beasts or men One that is perfect or at peace, Danced on Cruachan‘s windy plain, Upon Cro-Patrick sa...
-
Tom the Lunatic
2023-12-06Sang old Tom the lunatic That sleeps under the canopy; ‘What change has put my thoughts astray And eyes that had so keen a sight? What has turne...
-
Tom at Cruachan
2023-12-06On Cruachan‘s plain slept he That must sing in a rhyme What most could shake his soul: ‘The stallion Eternity Mounted the mare of Time, &l...
-
Old Tom again
2023-12-06Things out of perfection sail, And all their swelling canvas wear, Nor shall the self-begotten fail Though fantastic men suppose Building-yard and sto...
-
The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
2023-12-06Behold that great Plotinus swim, Buffeted by such seas; Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him, But the Golden Race looks dim, Salt blood blocks his eyes. Sca...
-
The Busy Heart
2023-12-06Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted, I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend. (O heart, I do not dare go empty-hearte...
-
Love
2023-12-06Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Where that comes in that shall not go again; Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate. They have...
-
Unfortunate
2023-12-06Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap That's tossed down dusty pavements by the wind; Saying, "She is most wise, patient and kind. Between...
-
The Chilterns
2023-12-06Your hands, my dear, adorable, Your lips of tenderness —— Oh, I've loved you faithfully and well, Three years, or a bit less. It wasn&...