Christmas Landscape (Laurie Lee Poems)
Tonight the wind gnawsWith teeth of glass,The jackdaw shiversIn caged branches of iron,The stars have talons.There is hunger in the ...
Laurie Lee Poems (8 Poems)
Winter Poem (Laurie Lee Poems)
Tonight the wind gnaws with teeth of glassThe jackdaw shivers in caged branches of ironThe stars have talonsThere is hunger ...
Town Owl (Laurie Lee Poems)
On eves of cold, when slow coal fires, rooted in basements, burn and branch, brushing with smoke the city air; ...
Apples (Laurie Lee Poems)
Behold the apples' rounded worlds: juice-green of July rain, the black polestar of flowers, the rind mapped with its crimson ...
April Rise (Laurie Lee Poems)
If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day Where lemon-green the ...
Day of These Days (Laurie Lee Poems)
Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls ...
Home From Abroad (Laurie Lee Poems)
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways, My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, I set my face ...
Milkmaid (Laurie Lee Poems)
The girl's far treble, muted to the heat, calls like a fainting bird across the fields to where her flock ...