Ten Types of Hospital Visitor (Charles Causley Poems)
1The first enters wearing the neon armourOf virtue.Ceaselessly firing all-purpose smilesAt everyone presentShe destroys hopeIn the breasts of the sick,Who ...
1The first enters wearing the neon armourOf virtue.Ceaselessly firing all-purpose smilesAt everyone presentShe destroys hopeIn the breasts of the sick,Who ...
Mary stood in the kitchenBaking a loaf of bread.An angel flew in the window'We've a job for you,' he said.'God ...
Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-ToastBought an old castle complete with a ghost,But someone or other forgot to declareTo Colonel Fazak that the ...
Timothy Winters comes to schoolWith eyes as wide as a football pool,Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:A blitz of ...
On a starless night and stillUnderneath a sleeping hillComes the cry of sheep and kineFrom the slaughter house to mine.Fearful ...
At nine of the night I opened my doorThat stands midway between moor and moor,And all around me, silver-bright,I saw ...
Who's that knocking on the window,Who's that standing at the door,What are all those presentsLaying on the kitchen floor?Who is ...
From a Normandy crucifix of 1632I am the great sun, but you do not see me, I am your ...
When to the music of Byrd or Tallis,The ruffed boys singing in the blackened stalls,The candles lighting the small bones ...
I saw a jolly hunterWith a jolly gunWalking in the countryIn the jolly sun.In the jolly meadowSat a jolly hare.Saw ...
Your royal bedIs made of hayIn a cattle-shed.Sleep, King Jesus,Do not fear,Joseph is watchingAnd waiting near.Warm in the wintry airYou ...
Draw the blanket of oceanOver the frozen face.He lies, his eyes quarried by glittering fish,Staring through the green freezing sea-glassAt ...
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