Serviceman’s Complaint (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Cockcrow's chalky virtue, a swanscales up and over willows,thrashing her misty pool. No one hollosher decamping, sluggish as though only ...
Cockcrow's chalky virtue, a swanscales up and over willows,thrashing her misty pool. No one hollosher decamping, sluggish as though only ...
The friends have gone home far up the valleyof that river into whose estuarythe man from England sailed in his ...
Sixty mile back,Edging the ooze of the estuary mosses - sheepOne side on fire from the level sun; hedgesClinkering ginger; ...
THE PARTING HOUR.Minutely trace man's life; year after year,Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then though some ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionariesBurnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,Far ...
OFT did a wat'ry grave awaitThe sailor in Messina's strait;Oft did the pilot seek in vainHis post of peril to ...
THE tide has ebbed away: No more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant rocks, Nor swayings amidst sea-weed false that mocks ...
My heart's at the war with a good-natured riflemanWhere he stands firing his foemen to slay;While he was home with ...
HER lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree, While flashing fingers weave the sweet-strung spell Between its chords; and as the ...
Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and roundPebbles of sounds in air's still lake,Whose widening circles fill the noon; yet noneIs ...
Love, we must part now: do not let it be Calamitious and bitter. In the past There has been too ...
The curlew and the heron call, the hissing mud and whispering wings beat eery through the idle air until the ...
a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell ...
In the same dream I am lying in the hollow of a boat, My forehead and eyes against the curved ...
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly ...
I You buy my freedom with your love. With every book you catalogue or stamp My imagination hacks a strand ...
Barbarous insult to Yeats' memory and Claudel's Allen, thank God you are dead, you who breathed the air of Apollinaire, ...
I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great Sea. (Walt ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and ...
Do you give yourself to me utterly, Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh Not as a fugitive, blindly or bitterly, ...
On the warm July river head back upside down river for a roof slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees ...
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