From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
She calmly brought his sabre bright,Tempered with death;And, girding him, her all, aright,She spoke with eyes of kindling lightMore than ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
I will bring fire to thee.Euripides.-'Androm'.'Eiros'.Why do you call me Eiros?'Charmion'.So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget,too, ...
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While ...
_AEschylus_--And by Jove, I'll not stop to cut up your verses word by ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;While I confess thy ...
Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for plots that are darkAnd not always in vain,The heathen Pass-ee ...
BENEATH this narrow jostling street, Unruffled by the noise of feet, Like a slow organ-note I hear The pulses ...
In a lingering fever many visions come to you:I was in the little house againWith its great yard of cloverRunning ...
Think on this Saying of Euripides,He that submits to Destiny's Decrees,Is justly counted wise by Men, and knowsThe due Respects ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess ...
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole, In winding graveyard pathways underground, For Browning's lineage! What if men ...
When Pentheus went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother and the other maenads, ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no green weight of laurels round his head, But with sad ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
A year or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of ...
In a lingering fever many visions come to you: I was in the little house again With its great yard ...
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