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Roy Fuller

I lived from 1912-1991. I was from Great Britain, and am in the English category.

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, near Oldham, in Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.

Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s. As He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973.

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  • Spring 1942
    Once as we were sitting by
    The falling sun, the thickening air,
    18 lines
  • Letter To My Wife
    The loud mechanical voices of the sirens
    Lure me from sleep and on the heath, like stars,
    53 lines
  • The Giraffes
    I think before they saw me the giraffes
    Were watching me. Over the golden grass,
    32 lines
  • Crustaceans
    Upon the beach are thousands of crabs; they are
    Small, with one foreclaw curiously developed.
    32 lines
  • Poem
    Pity, repulsion, love and anger,
    The vivid allegorical
    11 lines
  • The End Of A Leave
    Out of the damp black night,
    The noise of locomotives,
    19 lines
  • Defending the Harbour
    We form a company to help defend
    The harbour. Close against the quay a landed
    22 lines
  • Native Working On The Aerodrome
    Curls powdered with chalk like a black roman bust,
    This prisoner, convicted of a lust
    3 lines
  • The Bay
    The semi-circular and lunar bay
    Where the grey stone fall to untidily
    14 lines
  • Epitaph On A Bombing Victim
    Reader, could his limbs be found
    Here would lie a common man:
    7 lines
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