Poems

The Virgin Mother My little love, my darling, You were a doorway to me; You let me out of the confines Into this strange countrie, Where […]

The White Horse The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are […]

The Wild Common The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping, Little jets of sunlight-texture imitating flame; Above them, exultant, the peewits are sweeping: They […]

Thought Thought, I love thought. But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas I despise that self-important game. Thought is the welling up of […]

To Women As Far As I’m Concerned The feelings I don’t have I don’t have. The feeling I don’t have, I won’t say I have. The […]

Tortoise Family Connections On he goes, the little one, Bud of the universe, Pediment of life. Setting off somewhere, apparently. Whither away, brisk egg? His mother […]

Tortoise Gallantry Making his advances He does not look at her, nor sniff at her, No, not even sniff at her, his nose is blank. Only […]

Tortoise Shell The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the bone. Along the back […]

Tortoise Shout I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I’ve heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life’s unfathomable dawn, Far off, […]

Trees In The Garden Ah in the thunder air how still the trees are! And the lime-tree, lovely and tall, every leaf silent hardly looses even […]