C. S. Lewis Poems (67 Poems)
Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poems)
1 You said ‘The world is going back to Paganism’.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the HouseSpill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes,And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes,Leading … Continue reading
In Praise of Solid People (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit an sew and talk and smoke,And snore all through the summer dawn. Who pass untroubled nights and daysFull-fed and sleepily content,Rejoicing in each other’s praise,Respectable and … Continue reading
How He Saw Angus, The God (C. S. Lewis Poems)
I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking stair, alone, tip-toes,So carefully I crept. The house was dark with silly blinds yet drawn,But outside the clean air was … Continue reading
Dungeon Grates (C. S. Lewis Poems)
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs the long, material chainFrom cause to cause, too merciless for hate,The nightmare march of unrelenting fate,I think that he must … Continue reading
De Profundis (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Come let us curse our Master ere we die,For all our hopes in endless ruin lie.The good is dead. Let us curse God most High. Four thousand years of toil and hope and thoughtWherein man laboured upward and still wroughtNew … Continue reading
L’Apprenti Sorcier (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan all the tides that leap and runWith us below the real sun:Because the place was far away,Above, beyond our homely … Continue reading
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future’s endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, yet progressing,Lead us nobody knows where. Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,In the present what are theywhile there’s always jam-tomorrow,While … Continue reading
Hesperus (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Through the starry hollowOf the summer nightI would follow, followHesperus the bright,To seek beyond the western waveHis garden of delight. Hesperus the fairestOf all gods that are,Peace and dreams thou bearestIn thy shadowy car,And often in my evening walksI’ve blessed … Continue reading
Irish Nocturne (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean’s weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of evil drink in a wizard’s hand;And the trees fade out of sight,Like dreary ghosts unhealthily,Into the damp, pale night,Till you … Continue reading
Ballade Mystique (C. S. Lewis Poems)
The big, red-house is bare and loneThe stony garden waste and sereWith blight of breezes ocean blownTo pinch the wakening of the year;My kindly friends with busy cheerMy wretchedness could plainly show.They tell me I am lonely here-What do they … Continue reading
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