The Triumph of Love (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
ISun-blazed, over Romsley, a livid rain-scarp.XIIIWhose lives are hidden in God? Whose?Who can now tell what was taken, or where,or ...
ISun-blazed, over Romsley, a livid rain-scarp.XIIIWhose lives are hidden in God? Whose?Who can now tell what was taken, or where,or ...
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae'Your situation', said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ...
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
IKing of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in ...
1Cloven, we are incorporate, our woundssimple but mysterious. We havesome wherewithal to bide our time on earth.Endurance is fantastic; ambulancesbattling ...
Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils,Ribs, keels, coral sores,Detached faces, ephemeral oils,Discharged on the world's outer shores,A dumb child-kingArrives at his right ...
Whether or not shadows are of the substancesuch is the expectation I canwait to surprise my vision as a windenters ...
1Created purely from glass the saint stands,Exposing his gifted quite empty handsLike a conjurer about to begin,A righteous man begging ...
The strident highcivic trumpetingof misrule. It iswhat we stand for.Wild insolence,aggregates withoutdistinction. Courageof common men:spent in the rucktheir remnant witnessafter ...
non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare,solaque famosam culpa professa facit.Amores, III, xivI love my work and my children. GodIs distant, ...
King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
Brooding on the eightieth letter of Fors Clavigera, I speak this in memory of my grandmother, whose childhood and prime ...
He drove at evening through the hushed Vosges. The car radio, glimmering, received broken utterance from the horizon of storms... ...
Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring. Eel-swarms. Coagulations of frogs: once, with branches and half-bricks, he battered ...
born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42 Undesirable you may have been, untouchable you were not. Not forgotten or passed over at ...
For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution ...
When snow like sheep lay in the fold And wind went begging at each door, And the far hills were ...
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