Funeral Music (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.As with the gentle fading of the ...
The day you march away let the sun shine,Let everything be blue and gold and fair,Triumph of trumpets calling through ...
Three long days o'er the barren steppe Where the earth lay dead in her winding-sheet She measured the hours from ...
Suggested by a drawing of Thomas Moran, the American painter.This must be the very night!The moon knows it!—and the trees!They ...
Sun on the mountain,Shade in the valley,Ripple and lightnessLeaping along the world,Sun, like a gold swordPlucked from the scabbard,Striking the ...
O SAY, if into sudden storm Some future cloud we may not shunShould burst, and Love's bright world deform, ...
An ignominious monster and uncouth Who crouches in a Satanic attitude, The naked parody of some vital truth Concealed from ...
AS evening shaped I found me on a moor Which sight could scarce sustain: The black lean land, of featureless ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
Sun on the mountain, Shade in the valley, Ripple and lightness Leaping along the world, Sun, like a gold sword ...
I saw three wounded of the war: And the first had lost his eyes; And the second went on wheels ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou departest; And ...
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st In one of thine, from that which thou departest, And ...
When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house: I passed the door, and saw my friends ...
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin ...
(1) This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. How the sun's poultice draws on my inflammation. Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories