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Edwin Muir's Poetry, by popularity

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  • In Love for Long
    I've been in love for long
    With what I cannot tell
    41 lines
  • The Days
    Issuing from the Word
    The seven days came,
    54 lines
  • Reading in Wartime
    Boswell by my bed,
    Tolstoy on my table;
    38 lines
  • "They Could Not Tell Me..."
    They could not tell me who should be my lord,
    But I could read from every word they said
    14 lines
  • The Transfiguration
    So from the ground we felt that virtue branch
    Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists
    67 lines
  • The Angel and the Girl
    The angel and the girl are met
    Earth was the only meeting place.
    30 lines
  • The Confirmation
    Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.
    I in my mind had waited for this long,
    14 lines
  • Circle and Square
    ‘I give you half of me;
    No more, lest I should make
    25 lines
  • The Child Dying
    Unfriendly friendly universe,
    I pack your stars into my purse,
    30 lines, 3 comments
  • The Incarnate One
    The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream,
    And Calvin's kirk crowning the barren brae.
    35 lines
  • The Castle
    All through that summer at ease we lay,
    And daily from the turret wall
    30 lines
  • The Killing
    That was the day they killed the Son of God
    On a squat hill-top by Jerusalem.
    44 lines
  • Horses
    Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
    On the bare field - I wonder, why, just now,
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • Abraham
    The rivulet-loving wanderer Abraham
    Through waterless wastes tracing his fields of pasture
    16 lines
  • The Fathers
    Our fathers all were poor,
    Poorer our fathers' fathers;
    35 lines
  • The Good Man in Hell
    If a good man were ever housed in Hell
    By needful error of the qualities,
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • In Love For Long
    I've been in love for long
    With what I cannot tell
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • Robert the Bruce (To Douglas in Dying)
    'MY life is done, yet all remains,
    The breath has gone, the image not,
    32 lines
  • Scotland 1941
    We were a tribe, a family, a people.
    Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field,
    41 lines
  • Scotland's Winter
    Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill,
    The sun looks from the hill
    28 lines
  • Merlin
    O Merlin in your crystal cave
    Deep in the diamond of the day,
    14 lines
  • The Combat
    It was not meant for human eyes,
    That combat on the shabby patch
    50 lines, 1 comment
  • The Horses
    Barely a twelvemonth after
    The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
    53 lines
  • The Animals
    They do not live in the world,
    Are not in time and space.
    25 lines, 1 comment
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