Let me tell you a little story About Miss Edith Gee; She lived in Clevedon Terrace At number 83. She’d a slight squint in her left eye, Her lips they…

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern…

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd…

I thought it would last my time – The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and farms, Where the village louts could climb Such trees as…

Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we say, Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear…

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme – why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own…

In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist’s appointment and sat and waited for her in the dentist’s waiting room. It was winter. It got dark…

“In America”, began the lecturer, “everyone must have a degree. The French do not think that all can have it, they don’t say everyone must go to college.” We incline…

Groping back to bed after a piss I part thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness. Four o’clock: wedge-shadowed gardens lie Under a cavernous, a…

When I turned about in the small Dug-out My glance on the Picture tarried. So I hied me away from the fair display, Remembering I was married….

I don’t want to be a soldier, I don’t want to go to war. I’d rather stay at home, Around the streets to roam, And live on the earnings of…

Down on the boulevards the crowds went by, The shouting and the singing died away, And in the quiet we rose to drink the toasts, Our hearts uplifted to the…