The Transfiguration (Edwin Muir Poems)
So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists As ...
Edwin Muir Poems (22 Poems)
The Days (Edwin Muir Poems)
Issuing from the Word The seven days came, Each in its own place, Its own name. And the first long ...
The Killing (Edwin Muir Poems)
That was the day they killed the Son of GodOn a squat hill-top by Jerusalem.Zion was bare, her children from ...
Reading in Wartime (Edwin Muir Poems)
Boswell by my bed, Tolstoy on my table; Thought the world has bled For four and a half years, And ...
Robert the Bruce (To Douglas in Dying) (Edwin Muir Poems)
'MY life is done, yet all remains,The breath has gone, the image not,The furious shapes once forged in heatLive on ...
The Angel and the Girl (Edwin Muir Poems)
The angel and the girl are metEarth was the only meeting place.For the embodied never yetTravelled beyond the shore of ...
The Confirmation (Edwin Muir Poems)
Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.I in my mind had waited for this long,Seeing the false and ...
They Could Not Tell Me… (Edwin Muir Poems)
They could not tell me who should be my lord, But I could read from every word they said The ...
The Child Dying (Edwin Muir Poems)
Unfriendly friendly universe, I pack your stars into my purse, And bid you so farewell. That I can leave you, ...
The Combat (Edwin Muir Poems)
It was not meant for human eyes, That combat on the shabby patch Of clods and trampled turf that lies ...
The Fathers (Edwin Muir Poems)
Our fathers all were poor, Poorer our fathers' fathers; Beyond, we dare not look. We, the sons, keep store Of ...
The Good Man in Hell (Edwin Muir Poems)
If a good man were ever housed in Hell By needful error of the qualities, Perhaps to prove the rule ...
The Horses (Edwin Muir Poems)
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange ...
The Incarnate One (Edwin Muir Poems)
The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream, And Calvin's kirk crowning the barren brae. I think of Giotto the Tuscan ...
Abraham (Edwin Muir Poems)
The rivulet-loving wanderer Abraham Through waterless wastes tracing his fields of pasture Led his Chaldean herds and fattening flocks With ...
Circle and Square (Edwin Muir Poems)
'I give you half of me; No more, lest I should make A ground for perjury. For your sake, for ...
In Love For Long (Edwin Muir Poems)
I've been in love for long With what I cannot tell And will contrive a song For the intangible That ...
Merlin (Edwin Muir Poems)
O Merlin in your crystal cave Deep in the diamond of the day, Will there ever be a singer Whose ...
Scotland 1941 (Edwin Muir Poems)
We were a tribe, a family, a people. Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field, And all may read ...
Scotland’s Winter (Edwin Muir Poems)
Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, The sun looks from the hill Helmed in his winter ...
The Animals (Edwin Muir Poems)
They do not live in the world, Are not in time and space. From birth to death hurled No word ...
The Castle (Edwin Muir Poems)
All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the ...