Poems by Ted Hughes
Chomei at Toyama
... (Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) ...
from Briggflatts
... s twitter, listening while the marble rests, ...
from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
... she’ll keep the house together ...
from Second Book of Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
... Nasty little words, nasty long words, ...
from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
... save that on sand their soles squeak slightly ...
from First Book of Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
... ?Felis Tigris (Straits Settlements) (Bobo) takes exercise ...
Examination at the Womb-Door
... Death. Who owns this bristly scorched-looking face ...
Hawk Roosting
... Now I hold Creation in my footOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly - ...
The Harvest Moon
... The harvest moon has come!And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep ...
The Thought-Fox
... Coming about its own businessTill, with sudden sharp hot stink of fox ...
Old Age Gets Up
... Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticksAn eye powdered over, half melted and solid again ...
Thistles
... Of splintered weapons and Icelandic frost thrust upFrom the underground stain of a decayed Viking ...
The Warm and the Cold
... The deer are on the bare-blown hill ...
A Woman Unconscious
... (Not to be thought ridiculous)Shies from the world-cancelling black ...
September
... Minutes uproaring with our headsLike an unfortunate King's and his Queen's ...
