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Book: High Windows

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  • The Old Fools
    What do they think has happened, the old fools,
    To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose
    48 lines
  • The Trees
    The trees are coming into leaf
    Like something almost being said;
    12 lines
  • Solar
    Suspended lion face
    Spilling at the centre
    21 lines
  • Vers De Société
    My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps
    To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Money
    Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:
    'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?
    19 lines
  • The Building
    Higher than the handsomest hotel
    The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see,
    64 lines
  • How Distant
    How distant, the departure of young men
    Down valleys, or watching
    20 lines
  • The Explosion
    On the day of the explosion
    Shadows pointed towards the pithead:
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • Homage To A Government
    Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
    For lack of money, and it is all right.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Annus Mirabilis
    Sexual intercourse began
    In nineteen sixty-three
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel
    Light spreads darkly downwards from the high
    Clusters of lights over empty chairs
    14 lines
  • Cut Grass
    Cut grass lies frail:
    Brief is the breath
    12 lines, 1 comment
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