Comfortable Light (John Freeman Poems)
Most comfortable Light,Light of the small lamp burning up the night,With dawn enleagued against the beaten dark;Pure golden perfect spark;Or ...
John Freeman Poems (200 Poems)
The Fall (John Freeman Poems)
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
The Brightness (John Freeman Poems)
Away, away--Through that strange void and vastBrimmed with dying day;Away,So that I feelOnly the windOf the world's swift-rolling wheel.See what ...
The Last Time (John Freeman Poems)
For the last time,The last, last time,The last ...All those last times have I lived through again,And every "last" renews ...
The Other House (John Freeman Poems)
That other house, in the same crowded street,One red-tiled floor had, answering to my feet,And a bewildering garden all of ...
From Wear To Thames (John Freeman Poems)
Is it because Spring now is comeThat my heart leaps in its bed of dust?Is it with sorrow or strange ...
Happiness (John Freeman Poems)
I have found happiness who looked not for it. There was a green fresh hedge, And willows by the river side, And whistling ...
The Swing (John Freeman Poems)
It was like floating in a blessed dream to roamAcross green meadows, far from home,With only trees and quivering sky ...
Evening Beauty: Blackfriars (John Freeman Poems)
Nought is but beauty weareth, near and far, Under the pale, blue sky and lonely star. This is that quick hour when ...
The Ash (John Freeman Poems)
The undecaying yew has shed his flowersLong since in golden showers.The elm has robed her heightIn green, and hangs maternal ...
Lambourn Town (John Freeman Poems)
The rain beat on me as I walked, In the roadside it ran and muttered.It seemed the rain to the wind ...
O Muse Divine (John Freeman Poems)
O thou, my Muse,Beside the Kentish River runningThrough water-meads where dewsTossed flashing at thy feetAnd tossing flashed againWhen the timid ...
The Light That Never Was On Sea Or Land (John Freeman Poems)
O gone are now those eager great glad days of days, but I remember Yet even yet the light that turned ...
The Dark Night Of The Mind (John Freeman Poems)
I could not love if my thought loved not too,Nor could my body touch the body of you,Unless first in ...
The First House (John Freeman Poems)
That is the earliest thing that I remember--The narrow house in the long narrow street,Dark rooms within and darkness out ...
The Kite (John Freeman Poems)
It was a dayAll blue and lifting white,When I went into the fields with FrankTo fly his kite. The fields were ...
Rapture (John Freeman Poems)
If thou hast griefAnd passion vex the spirit that is in thee--There was a stony beachWhere the heat flickered and ...
The Evening Sky (John Freeman Poems)
Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'dWith eyes of dazzling brightShakes Venus mid the twined boughs of the night;Rose-limb'd, soft-steppingFrom low bough to boughShaking ...
The Slaves (John Freeman Poems)
The tall slaves bow if that capricious King But glances as he passes;Their dark hoods drawing over abashed faces They bow humbly, ...
Fear (John Freeman Poems)
There was a child that screamed,And if it was the gathering tingling dark,Or if it was the tingling silencesBetween few ...
At The Dock (John Freeman Poems)
They loiter round the Dock that holds yon ShipShuddering at the dark pool's defiled lipFrom springing bows to foam-deriding stern;They ...
Ten o’Clock No More (John Freeman Poems)
The wind has thrownThe boldest of trees down.Now disgraced it lies,Naked in spring beneath the drifting skies,Naked and still.It was ...
Nowhere, Everywhere (John Freeman Poems)
Flesh and blood, bone and skin,Are the house that beauty lives in.Formed in darkness, grown in lightAre they the substance ...
The Herd (John Freeman Poems)
The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far,Were stayed within the shadow of his eye.The sheep-dog on that unseen shadow's edgeMoved, ...
The Kestrel (John Freeman Poems)
In a great western wind we climbed the hillAnd saw the clouds run up, ride high and sink;And there were ...
Stone Trees (John Freeman Poems)
Last night a sword-light in the skyFlashed a swift terror on the dark.In that sharp light the fields did lieNaked ...
The Creeper (John Freeman Poems)
It covered allThe cold east wall,Its green, thin gold, purple, brown,And flame running up and down;Lifting its quiet bosom to ...
The Flute (John Freeman Poems)
It was a night of smell and dewWhen very old things seemed how new;When speech was softest in the stillAir ...
But Most Thy Light (John Freeman Poems)
I know how fire burns,How from the wrangling fumesRose and amber blooms, And slowly dies.Nothing's so swift as fire,There's nothing alive ...
The Fear (John Freeman Poems)
Surely I must have ailed On that dark night,Or my childish courage failed Because there was no light;Or terror must have come With ...