Poems by Geoffrey Hill
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September Song
... The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes ...
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
... For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, ...
In Memory of Jane Fraser
... And a cloud shroud lay on the moor,She kept the siege ...
Mercian Hymns I
... King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the ...
Mercian Hymns XXV
... troughed water floated a damson-bloom of dust ---not to be shaken by posthumous clamour ...
Mercian Hymns XVII
... glimmering, received broken utterance from the horizon of storms ...
Mercian Hymns VII
... and silence.Ceolred was his friend and remained so, even after the day of the lost ...
Wreaths
... This poem originally appeared in the May 1957 issue of Poetry ...
Picture of a Nativity
... rests, Undisturbed, among slack serpents ...
Respublica
... is brought with triumph ...
From “Odi Barbare”
... Who’s to dance broyges tants the dance of anger&rsquo ...
On Reading Crowds and Power
... I do not know how we should be absolved or what is fate ...
Ovid in the Third Reich
... non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare, ...
On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
... regents, reagents, cloud-fêted, sun-ordained, ...
Tenebrae
... the songs: he felt imprisoned in a cold region where his brain was numb and his spirit was isolated ...
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