Introspectio (Kathleen Raine Poems)
If you go deepInto the heartWhat do you find there?Fear, fear,Fear of the jaws of the rock,Fear of the teeth ...
If you go deepInto the heartWhat do you find there?Fear, fear,Fear of the jaws of the rock,Fear of the teeth ...
Within the flower there lies a seed,Within the seed there springs a tree,Within the tree there spreads a wood.In the ...
Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the starsIn the presence that I cannot seeOtherwise than as house and stars ...
From star to star, from sun and spring and leaf, And almost audible flowers whose sound is silence, And in ...
Reaching down arm-deep into bright water I gathered on white sand under waves Shells, drifted up on beaches where I ...
God in me is the fury on the bare heath God in me shakes the interior kingdom of my heaven. ...
Change Said the sun to the moon, You cannot stay. Change Says the moon to the waters, All is flowing. ...
A Gaelic bard they praise who in fourteen adjectives Named the one indivisible soul of his glen; For what are ...
Wanting to know all I overlooked each particle Containing the whole Unknowable. Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and ...
Now he is dead How should I know My true love's arms From wind and snow? No man I meet ...
I saw the sun step like a gentleman Dressed in black and proud as sin. I saw the sun walk ...
In my first sleep I came to the river And looked down Through the clear water - Only in dream ...
Day is the hero's shield, Achilles' field, The light days are the angels. We the seed. Against eternal light and ...
I came too late to the hills: they were swept bare Winters before I was born of song and story, ...
This war's dead heroes, who has seen them? They rise in smoke above the burning city, Faint clouds, dissolving into ...
Strange that the self's continuum should outlast The Virgin, Aphrodite, and the Mourning Mother, All loves and griefs, successive deities ...
There is a fish, that quivers in the pool, itself a shadow, but its shadow, clear. Catch it again and ...
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold ...
If you go deep Into the heart What do you find there? Fear, fear, Fear of the jaws of the ...
Wearing worry about money like a hair shirt I lie down in my bed and wrestle with my angel. My ...
Where are those dazzling hills touched by the sun, Those crags in childhood that I used to climb? Hidden, hidden ...
Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss Grow in the Kingdom of the Cross And the ash-tree's purple bud Dresses the spear that ...
Yours is the face that the earth turns to me, Continuous beyond its human features lie The mountain forms that ...
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - all the stories are ...
Night comes, an angel stands Measuring out the time of stars, Still are the winds, and still the hours. It ...
Where is the seed Of the tree felled, Of the forest burned, Or living root Under ash and cinders? From ...
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