The Country Clergy (R S Thomas Poems)
I see them working in old rectoriesBy the sun's light, by candlelight,Venerable men, their black clothA little dusty, a little ...
I see them working in old rectoriesBy the sun's light, by candlelight,Venerable men, their black clothA little dusty, a little ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
In the Black Country, from a little window, Before I slept, across the haggard wastes Of dust and ...
A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup"Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens; The race is all over, ...
Of all the Knights in AppledoreThe wisest was Sir Thomas Tom.He multiplied as far as four,And knew what nine was ...
LAST night I single handed fought a gang of murderers that came To get my money or my life, and ...
But the essential advantage for a poet is not, to have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is ...
As stands a statue on its pedestal, Amidst the storms of civil mutiny, With an unchanged and high serenity, Though ...
Never with the oppressors with the despots, the tyrants in the falsehood of temporary security while subjugating their people We ...
Would it be really true that the dominoes were falling that we were witnessing an end of the time of ...
The people rising using the modern media voices rising demanding the same freedoms The nations together the despots to be ...
The maw of the earth gaping open, awful restless souls not finding people an open wound remaining, unstitched broken stones, ...
A deepening understanding, breathing in the word lesson by lesson, example by example, in parable and in service. Showing all ...
Plop, plop. The lobster toppled in the pot, fulfilling, dislike man, his destiny, glowing fire-red, succulent, and on the whole ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
Down from the purple mist of trees on the mountain, lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar, stumbling through ...
King Shuac, the Giant of Mizra, war did declare Against Ulva, King of Shina, telling him to prepare And be ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
Something has fallen wordlessly and holds still on the black driveway. You find it, like a jewel, among the empty ...
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