Poems

In the Time of War, XII And the age ended, and the last deliverer died. In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe: The sudden […]

Kairos and Logos I Around them boomed the rhetoric of time, The smells and furniture of the known world Where conscience worshipped an aesthetic order And […]

Lady Lady, weeping at the crossroads Would you meet your love In the twilight with his greyhounds, And the hawk on his glove? Bribe the birds […]

Law Like Love Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day. Law is the wisdom of the […]

Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful […]

Let History Be My Judge We made all possible preparations, Drew up a list of firms, Constantly revised our calculations And allotted the farms, Issued all […]

Like A Vocation Not as that dream Napoleon, rumour’s dread and centre, Before who’s riding all the crowds divide, Who dedicates a column and withdraws, Nor […]

Lullaby Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves […]

Miranda My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely, As the poor and sad are real to the good king, And the high green hill […]

Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone […]