Laurie Lee Poems

  • 1.
    If ever I saw blessing in the air
    I see it now in this still early day
    Where lemon-green the vaporous morning drips
    Wet sunlight on the powder of my eye.
    ...
  • 2.
    The girl's far treble, muted to the heat,
    calls like a fainting bird across the fields
    to where her flock lies panting for her voice,
    their black horns buried deep in marigolds.
    ...
  • 3.
    Behold the applesâ?? rounded worlds:
    juice-green of July rain,
    the black polestar of flowers, the rind
    mapped with its crimson stain.
    ...
  • 4.
    On eves of cold, when slow coal fires,
    rooted in basements, burn and branch,
    brushing with smoke the city air;
    When quartered moons pale in the sky,
    ...
  • 5.
    Less passionate the long war throws
    its burning thorn about all men,
    caught in one grief, we share one wound,
    and cry one dialect of pain.
    ...
  • 6.
    Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways,
    My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant,
    I set my face into a filial smile
    To greet the pale, domestic kiss of Kent.
    ...
  • 7.
    Tonight the wind gnaws
    With teeth of glass,
    The jackdaw shivers
    In caged branches of iron,
    ...
  • 8.
    Tonight the wind gnaws with teeth of glass
    The jackdaw shivers in caged branches of iron
    The stars have talons
    There is hunger in the mouth of vole and badger
    ...
Total 8 Poems by Laurie Lee

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Girl 3 Green 3 Black 3 Hunger 3 Cold 3 Earth 3 Grass 3 Grief 3 Star 2 Tree 2

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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