From Albert to Bapaume (Alec Waugh Poems)
Lonely and bare and desolate,Stretches of muddy filtered green,A silence half articulateOf all that those dumb eyes have seen.A bettered ...
Lonely and bare and desolate,Stretches of muddy filtered green,A silence half articulateOf all that those dumb eyes have seen.A bettered ...
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Where's the Poet? show him! show him, Muses nine! that I may know him. 'Tis the man who with a ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
Like the foghorn that's all lung, the wind chime that's all percussion, like the wind itself, that's merely air in ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
1. Earth was not: nor globes of attraction The will of the Immortal expanded Or contracted his all flexible senses. ...
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the ...
So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet, Our strict and desperate avatar, Despite that antique westward gulls lament ...
We sat together at one summer's end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked ...
A goddess, with a siren's grace,-- A sun-haired girl on a craggy place Above a bay where fish-boats lay Drifting ...
WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice-churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker-parents and offspring-merchant, clerk, porter ...
To live between terms, to live where death has his loud picture in the subway ride, Being amid six million ...
AS flow the rivers to the sea Adown from rocky hill or plain, A thousand ages toiled for thee And ...
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...
They do not live in the world, Are not in time and space. From birth to death hurled No word ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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