C. S. Lewis Poems Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poems)

1You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the ...

In Praise of Solid People (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit an sew and talk and smoke,And ...

How He Saw Angus, The God (C. S. Lewis Poems)

I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking ...

Dungeon Grates (C. S. Lewis Poems)

So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...

De Profundis (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Come let us curse our Master ere we die,For all our hopes in endless ruin lie.The good is dead. Let ...

L’Apprenti Sorcier (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan ...

Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future's endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, ...

Hesperus (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Through the starry hollowOf the summer nightI would follow, followHesperus the bright,To seek beyond the western waveHis garden of delight.Hesperus ...

Irish Nocturne (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean's weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of ...

Ballade Mystique (C. S. Lewis Poems)

The big, red-house is bare and loneThe stony garden waste and sereWith blight of breezes ocean blownTo pinch the wakening ...

Death in Battle (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Open the gates for me,Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West,In the sweet dim Isle of ...

Hymn (For Boys’ Voices) (C. S. Lewis Poems)

All the things magicians doCould be done by me and youFreely, if we only knew.Human children every dayCould play at ...

French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux) (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Long leagues on either hand the trenches spreadAnd all is still; now even this gross lineDrinks in the frosty silences ...

Apology (C. S. Lewis Poems)

If men should ask, Despoina, why I tellOf nothing glad nor noble in my verseTo lighten hearts beneath this present ...

An Expostulation (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Against too many writers of science fictionWhy did you lure us on like this,Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,Building (as ...

In Prison (C. S. Lewis Poems)

I cried out for the pain of man,I cried out for my bitter wrathAgainst the hopeless life that ranFor ever ...

As the Ruin Falls (C. S. Lewis Poems)

All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and ...

After Prayers, Lie Cold (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Arise my body, my small body, we have strivenEnough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.Arise small body, puppet-like and ...

Alexandrines (C. S. Lewis Poems)

There is a house that most of all on earth I hate.Though I have passed through many sorrows and have ...

Here the Whole World (C. S. Lewis Poems)

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes ...

Song Of The Pilgrims (C S Lewis Poems)

O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind,What have we done to you? How have we sinnedWandering the Earth ...

Ode For New Year’s Day (C S Lewis Poems)

Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth,Now cry for all your torment: now curse ...

In Praise Of Solid People (C S Lewis Poems)

Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit and sew and talk and smoke,And ...

How He Saw Angus The God (C S Lewis Poems)