Edwin Muir World Poems
- 1. The Child Dying
Unfriendly friendly universe,
I pack your stars into my purse,
And bid you so farewell.
That I can leave you, quite go out,
... - 2. The Confirmation
Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.
I in my mind had waited for this long,
Seeing the false and searching for the true,
Then found you as a traveller finds a place
... - 3. The Transfiguration
So from the ground we felt that virtue branch
Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists
As fresh and pure as water from a well,
Our hands made new to handle holy things,
... - 4. The Horses
rld to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
But in the first few days it was so still
... - 5. Reading In Wartime
Boswell by my bed,
Tolstoy on my table;
Thought the world has bled
For four and a half years,
... - 6. The Animals
They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
... - 7. In Love For Long
I've been in love for long
With what I cannot tell
And will contrive a song
For the intangible
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