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A D Hope's Poetry, by first line

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  • Easter Hymn
    Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness;
    No voice can harm you and no hand will save;
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • The School of Night
    What did I study in your School of Night?
    When your mouth's first unfathomable yes
    18 lines
  • Observation Car
    To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket,
    Then the station slid backward, the shops and the neon lighting,
    44 lines
  • Conquistador
    I sing of the decline of Henry Clay
    Who loved a white girl of uncommon size.
    72 lines
  • The Return of Persephone
    Gliding through the still air, he made no sound;
    Wing-shod and deft, dropped almost at her feet,
    35 lines
  • The Pleasure of Princes
    What pleasures have great princes? These: to know
    Themselves reputed mad with pride or power;
    24 lines
  • Parabola
    Year after year the princess lies asleep
    Until the hundred years foretold are done,
    48 lines
  • Meditation on a Bone
    Words scored upon a bone,
    Scratched in despair or rage --
    30 lines
  • Tasmanian Magpies
    Ethiopia! They used to say,
    Fluting at dawn through pure, clear rills of sound,
    26 lines, 3 comments
  • The Perfume
    "... marked males of the silkworm moth have been known to fly upwind seven
    miles to a fragrant female of their kind ... the chemica
    54 lines
  • Under Aldebaran
    "The place, my lord, is much like Gideon’s fleece
    The second time he laid it on the ground;
    16 lines
  • Australia
    A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey
    In the field uniform of modern wars,
    33 lines, 8 comments
  • As Well As They Can
    As well as it can, the hooked fish while it dies,
    Gasping for life, threshing in terror and pain,
    14 lines
  • Beware of Ruins
    Beware of ruins: they have a treacherous charm;
    Insidious echoes lurk among their stones;
    26 lines
  • Going to Bed
    Chloe, let down that chestnut hair;
    Let it flow full; let it fall free;
    39 lines
  • Card Game
    Club, diamond, heart and spade,
    Under these the game is played.
    14 lines
  • The Invaders
    Coming by night, furtively, one by one
    They infiltrate according to the Plan,
    27 lines
  • Crossing the Frontier
    Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time,
    Told, quite politely, they would have to wait:
    47 lines
  • The Death of the Bird
    For every bird there is this last migration;
    Once more the cooling year kindles her heart;
    43 lines
  • Death of the Bird
    For every bird there is this last migration;
    Once more the cooling year kindles her heart;
    43 lines
  • Commination
    He that is filthy let him be filthy still.
    Rev. 22.11
    92 lines
  • Imperial Adam
    Imperial Adam, naked in the dew,
    Felt his brown flanks and found the rib was gone
    53 lines
  • The Lamp
    Night and the sea; the firelight glowing;
    We sit in silence by the hearth;
    39 lines
  • The Gateway
    Now the heart sings with all its thousand voices
    To hear this city of cells, my body, sing.
    13 lines
  • Morning Coffee
    Reading the menu at the morning service:
    - Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum -
    43 lines
  • His Coy Mistress To Mr. Marvell
    Since you have world enough and time
    Sir, to admonish me in rhyme,
    96 lines
  • Tiger
    The paper tigers roar at noon;
    The sun is hot, the sun is high.
    38 lines, 2 comments
  • Phallus
    This was the gods' god,
    The leashed divinity,
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Ode On The Death Of Pius The Twelfth
    To every season its proper act of joy,
    To every age its natural mode of grace,
    104 lines
  • Standardisation
    When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age,
    The journalist with his marketable woes
    48 lines, 2 comments
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