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 ...
Bursts from a rending East in flawsThe young green leaflet's harrier, swornTo strew the garden, strip the shaws,And show our ...
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
1I understand the boredom of the clerksfatigue shifting like dunes within their eyesa frightful nausea gumming up the worksthat once ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
A gaunt and hoary slab of stone I found in desert place, And wondered why it lay alone In that ...
Dogs have a sense beyond our ken - At least my little Trixie had: Tail-wagging when I laughed, and when ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
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