Poems

Poetry Yes, I shall swear by you, my verse, I shall wheeze out, before I swoon: You’re not a tenor’s shape and voice, You’re summer travelling […]

Railway Station My dear railway station, my treasure Of meetings and partings, my friend In times of hard trials and pleasure, Your favours have been without […]

So they begin. With two years gone… So they begin. With two years gone From nurse to countless tunes they scuttle. They chirp and whistle. Then […]

Sometime at a concert hall, in recollection… Sometime at a concert hall, in recollection, A Brahms intermezzo will wound me-I’ll start, Remember that summer, the flowerbed […]

Soul My mournful soul, you, sorrowing For all my friends around, You have become the burial vault Of all those hounded down. Devoting to their memory […]

Sparrow Hills My kisses across your breast, like water from a jug! They’ll have an end, and soon, our days of summer heat. Nor shall we […]

Spring This spring the world is new and different; More lively is the sparrows’ riot. I do not even try expressing it, How full my soul […]

Spring (Fragment 3) Is it only dirt you notice? Does the thaw not catch your glance? As a dapple-grey fine stallion Does it not through ditches […]

Spring Shower Winked to the birdcherry, gulped amid tears, Splashed over carriages’ varnish, trees’ tremble. Full moon. The musicians are picking their way To the theatre. […]

Stars were racing Stars were racing; waves were washing headlands. Salt went blind, and tears were slowly drying. Darkened were the bedrooms; thoughts were racing, And […]