Two Travellers (Cecil Day Lewis Poems)
One of us in the compartment staresOut of his window the whole day longWith attentive mein, as if he knows,There ...
One of us in the compartment staresOut of his window the whole day longWith attentive mein, as if he knows,There ...
MY hollyhocks are all awake, And not a single rose is lost; My wallflowers, for dear pity's sake, ...
The blessed Poster-girl leaned outFrom a pinky-purple heaven;One eye was red and one was green;Her bang was cut uneven;She had ...
High headlands all jealously hide thee, O fairest of sea-girdled towns! Thine Ocean-spouse smileth beside thee, While each ...
KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose, Jane is like a gillyflower smart; But ...
An acre of land between the shore and the hills,Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,The lovely visible earth ...
Jasmine blossoms round the arbour,Elder spreads along the air,Hollyhocks stand proudly tallestIn the fragrant thoroughfare.Pansies, like a 'broidered carpet,Through the ...
DUSK-HAIRED and gold-robed o'er the golden wineShe stoops, wherein, distilled of death and shame,Sink the black drops; while, lit with ...
Send sunflowers! With my turkey-bone whistle I am calling the birds To sing upon the sunflowers. For when the clouds ...
Today, because I couldn't find the shortcut through, I had to walk this town's entire inner perimeter to find where ...
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern ...
Down the sidewalk on the way to pick up the littlest after school three in the afternoon in early October ...
Good editor Dana--God bless him, we say-- Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the ...
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
my secrets appear on your window when you fog the division with your own warm breath; you lost yourself in ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
bless 'em beggars,buskers,street vendors breastfeeding mothers,fathers weather- beaten,misplaced babies,outofschoolboys&girls enduring with furious fidelity everyday musk of japanese/german carfumery bless 'em ...
WHEN Thomas set this tablet here, Time laughed at the vain chanticleer; And ere the moss had dimmed the stone, ...
[They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two days in the rain with a piece of ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. To live a ...
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