All Poems

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Requiescam

© Barry Tebb

(May I lie in peace)

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Self-Condemnation

© George Herbert

  Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,
For choosing Barabbas a murderer
  Before the Lord of glorie;
  Look back upon thine own estate,
Call home thine eye (that busie wanderer)
  That choice may be thy storie.

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A Fiddler In The North

© Robert Burns

Amang the trees, where humming bees,

At buds and flowers were hinging, O,

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An Evening Of Poetry

© Barry Tebb

Arriving for a reading an hour too early:

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To The Sighing Strephon

© George Gordon Byron

Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend;
  Your pardon, a thousand times o'er:
From friendship I strove your pangs to remove,
  But, I swear, I will do so no more.

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The Singing School

© Barry Tebb

The Poetry School, The Poetry Book Society, The Poetry Business:

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The Last Day Of Another Home Holiday

© Barry Tebb

I sat on a low stone wall

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The Parish Register - Part II: Marriages

© George Crabbe

made.
Yet now, would Phoebe her consent afford,
Her slave alone, again he'd mount the board;
With her should years of growing love be spent,
And growing wealth;--she sigh'd and look'd consent.
  Now, through the lane, up hill, and 'cross the

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A Hope For Poetry: Remembering The Sixties

© Barry Tebb

There was a hope for poetry in the sixties

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Faery Songs

© John Keats

I.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! oh, weep no more!

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The Road To Haworth Moor

© Barry Tebb

for Brenda Williams

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Lament

© Barry Tebb

How I loathe this land of my exile,

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For a Picture of the Last Judgement

© William Blake


The Caverns of the Grave I've seen,

And these I show'd to England's Queen.

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Hymn

© Barry Tebb

How I love the working-class girls of Leeds,

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To Brenda Williams On Her Fiftieth Birthday

© Barry Tebb

The years become you as Oxford becomes you,

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To E. C. S.

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Poet and friend of poets, if thy glass

Detects no flower in winter's tuft of grass,

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Leeds

© Barry Tebb

O my beloved city,

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Entanglements

© Barry Tebb

Why is it that in dreams I have visited -