Poems

Pluck Crippled for life at seventeen, His great eyes seems to question why: with both legs smashed it might have been Better in that grim trench […]

Native-Born In a white gully among fungus red Where serpent logs lay hissing at the air, I found a kangaroo. Tall dewy,dead, So like a woman, […]

The Lady Poverty by Evelyn Underhill I met her on the Umbrian hills, Her hair unbound, her feet unshod: As one whom secret glory fills She […]

The Light of the World Now burn, new born to the world, Doubled-naturéd name, The heaven-flung, heart-fleshed, maiden-furled Miracle-in-Mary-of-flame, Mid-numbered He in three of the thunder-throne! […]

In Memoriam So you were David’s father, And he was your only son, And the new-cut peats are rotting And the work is left undone, Because […]

A Girl The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast – Downward, The branches grow […]

A Pact I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman – I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who […]

A Virginal No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately. I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness, For my surrounding air hath […]

Alba As cool as the pale wet leaves Tof lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn.

An Immorality Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having. Though I have been in many a land, There is naught else […]