Poems by Edwin Muir
Robert the Bruce (To Douglas in Dying)
... 'But that Christ hung upon the Cross, ...
Horses
... Their conquering hooves which trod the stubble down ...
Nomad Exquisite
... Meet for the eye of the young alligator, ...
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
... To whom the watermelon is always purple, ...
Bantams in Pine-Woods
... Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, ...
Infanta Marina
... She made of the motions of her wrist ...
Anecdote of the Jar
... The jar was round upon the ground ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
... IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, ...
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
... The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream ...
The Idea of Order at Key West
... The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there, ...
Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
... it was A chorister whose c preceded the choir ...
Indian River
... Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor ...
Sunday Morning
... But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields ...
Phases
... III. But the bugles, in the night, ...
from Pecksniffiana: Fabliau of Florida
... There will never be an end ...
