poems
manhunt 1
only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face
manhunt 2
a sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind
manhunt 3
only then did i come close
sonnet 43 1
i love thee to the breadth and depth and height my soul can reach
sonnet 43 2
the passion put to use in my old griefs
sonnet 43 3
if god choose i shall but love thee better after death
london 1
marks of weakness marks of woe
london 2
the mind forged manacles i hear
london 3
every blackening church appalls
the soldier 1
theres some corner of a foreign field that is forever england
the soldier 2
a dust whom england bore shaped made aware
the soldier 3
a pulse in the eternal mind no less
she walks in beauty 1
of cloudless climes and starry skies
she walks in beauty 2
one shade the more one ray the less
she walks in beauty 3
a heart whose love is innocent
living space 1
nothing is flat or parallel
living space 2
these eggs in a wire basket
living space 3
hung out over the edge of a slanted universe
as imperceptibly as grief 1
the summer lapsed away
as imperceptibly as grief 2
as twilight long begun
as imperceptibly as grief 3
our summer made her light escape into the beautiful
cozy apologia 1
chain mail glinting to set me free
cozy apologia 2
teenage crushes on worthless boys whose only talent was to kiss you senseless
cozy apologia 3
we're content but fall short of the divine
valentine 1
it promises light
valentine 2
it will blind you with tears
valentine 3
its fierce kiss will stay on your lips possessive and faithful
valentine 4
its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring if you like
a wife in london 1
she sits in the tawny vapour
a wife in london 2
he has fallen in the far south land
a wife in london 3
page full of his hoped return
a wife in london 4
and of new love that they would learn
death of a naturalist 1
warm thick slobber of frogspawn
death of a naturalist 2
the daddy frog was called a bullfrog
death of a naturalist 3
the great slime kings were gathered there for vengeance
hawk roosting 1
in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat
hawk roosting 2
now i hold creation in my foot
hawk roosting 3
i am going to keep things like this
to autumn 1
and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core
to autumn 2
or on a half reaped furrow sound asleep
to autumn 3
where are the songs of spring
afternoons 1
summer is fading the leaves fall in ones and twos
afternoons 2
an estateful of washing
afternoons 3
something is pushing them to the side of their own lives
dulce et decorum est 1
bent double like old beggars under sacks
dulce et decorum est 2
i saw him drowning
dulce et decorum est 3
he plunges at me guttering choking drowning
dulce et decorum est 4
the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
ozymandias 1
i met a traveller from an antique land
ozymandias 2
look on my works ye mighty and despair
ozymandias 3
nothing beside remains
ozymandias 4
lone and level sands stretch far away
mametz wood 1
the wasted young turning up under their plough blades
mametz wood 2
like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin
mametz wood 3
a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm
mametz wood 4
slipped from their absent tongues
prelude 1
it was a time of rapture clear and loud
prelude 2
the pack loud bellowing the hunted hare
prelude 3
the orange sky of evening died away