Poems

Talking With Soldiers The mind of the people is like mud, From which arise strange and beautiful things, But mud is none the less mud, Though […]

The Caves Of Auvergne He carved the red deer and the bull Upon the smooth cave rock, Returned from war with belly full, And scarred with […]

The Hunter “But there was one land he dared not enter.” Beyond the blue, the purple seas, Beyond the thin horizon’s line, Beyond Antilla, Hebrides, Jamaica, […]

The Princess The stone-grey roses by the desert’s rim Are soft-edged shadows on the moonlit sand, Grey are the broken walls of Khangavar, That haunt of […]

The Sky-Sent Death “A German aeroplane flew over Greek territory dropping a bomb which killed a shepherd.” ‘Sitting on a stone a Shepherd, Stone and Shepherd […]

Absence HERE, ever since you went abroad, If there be change no change I see: I only walk our wonted road, The road is only walk’d […]

Acon and Rhodope The Year’s twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho’ varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some sedater, some adorn’d […]

Alciphron and Leucippe An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw Their heavy odour over two: Leucippe, it is said, was one; The other, then, was Alciphron. ‘Come, come! […]

Autumn MILD is the parting year, and sweet The odour of the falling spray; Life passes on more rudely fleet, And balmless is its closing day. […]

Child of a Day Child of a day, thou knowest not The tears that overflow thy urn, The gushing eyes that read thy lot, Nor, if […]