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Geoffrey Hill Poems

  • Respublica
    The strident high
    civic trumpeting
    of misrule. It is
    what we stand for. ...
  • Ovid In The Third Reich
    non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare,
    solaque famosam culpa professa facit.

    Amores, III, xiv ...
  • Mercian Hymns
    I

    King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the citadel at Tamworth, the summer hermitage in Holy Cross: guardian of the Welsh Bridge and the Iron Bridge: contractor to the desirable new estates: saltmaster: moneychanger: commissioner for oaths: martyrologist: the friend of Charlemagne.
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  • In Piam Memoriam
    1

    Created purely from glass the saint stands,
    Exposing his gifted quite empty hands ...
  • On Seeing The Wind At Hope Mansell
    Whether or not shadows are of the substance
    such is the expectation I can
    wait to surprise my vision as a wind
    enters the valley: sudden and silent ...
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Time 7 Sun 5 Light 5 Great 4 Hear 4 Common 4 True 4 Long 4 Good 4 I Love You 3


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Geoffrey_e_hill: no carotenoids in parrot feathers and no psittacofulvins in parrot bills
Dynamic_proxy: (pound on henry james - source here
Geoffreylhill: a message from cllr geoffrey hill & cllr helen taylor - braywick park
Abc: nashville police have identified the victims of today's school shooting as: · evelyn dieckhaus, 9 · hallie scruggs, 9 · william kinney, 9 · cynthia peak, 61 · mike hill, 61 · katherine koonce, 60, head of school
Geoffrey_e_hill: the tulsa birds are pioneers out on the edge of range--maybe selection eliminated low-quality yellow males. in ca, life is easy and the low quality birds persist.
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In A Copy Of Browning
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Browning, old fellow,
Your leaves grow yellow,
Beginning to mellow
As seasons pass.
Your cover is wrinkled,
And stained and sprinkled,
And warped and crinkled
From sleep on the grass.
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