Poems by Edwin Muir
Abraham
... Through waterless wastes tracing his fields of pasture ...
Circle and Square
... Give, but have something to give ...
In Love For Long
... Is sieged with crying sorrows, ...
Merlin
... The day wreathed in its mound of snow ...
Scotland 1941
... But Knox and Melville clapped their preaching palms ...
Scotland's Winter
... This land that with its dead and living waits the Judgement Day ...
The Animals
... For with names the world was called ...
The Castle
... Our gates were strong, our walls were thick, ...
The Child Dying
... And the great round world grows weak and old ...
The Combat
... And now, while the trees stand watching, still ...
The Fathers
... Of tarnished gold that gathers ...
The Good Man in Hell
... In patience for the first ten thousand years,Feeling the curse climb slowly to his throat ...
The Horses
... at evening They look like dank sea-monsters couched and waiting ...
The Incarnate One
... The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream, ...
The Transfiguration
... We would have thrown our clothes away for lightness, ...
