Poems

Twenty-Four Years Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes. (Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.) In the groin […]

Vision and Prayer Who Are you Who is born In the next room So loud to my own That I can hear the womb Opening and […]

Was There a Time Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children’s circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could […]

When All My Five and Country Senses See When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through […]

When Once the Twilight Locks No Longer When once the twilight locks no longer Locked in the long worm of my finger Nor damned the sea […]

When, Like a Running Grave When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her […]

Where Once the Waters of Your Face Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead turns up […]

An Oxford Retrospect: May 1915 May! – and I am no more among your spires, Dear Mother-city of my soul. May! – and my heart hath […]

Courage Alone amid the battle-din untouched Stands out one figure beautiful, serene; No grime of smoke nor reeking blood hath smutched The virgin brow of this […]

Easter Even Evening steals on in stillness o’er the heath, Across the blue-green sky and fire-tinged clouds, And silent birds wing homewards; misty shrouds Rise to […]