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- THE HEART OF LOTHIAN
- BEETHOVEN’S HAT
- POEM NOT TO BE SPOKEN
- IN PRINCIPIO
- VOCABULARY FOR A HERO…
- AUSCHWITZ
- SUMMER SNOW
- AFTER BERKELEY
- DURHAM
- MARINA TSVETAEVA
- TWO DEATHS
- AT AVEBURY
- INCIDENT OFF ICELAND
- THE DREAM
- LULLABY
- LAUGHTER
- THE HEART’S UNDESIGN
- UNLEARNED
- BITTERNESS
- ROSE BRIAR
- EPITAPH
- INTERCESSION IN LATE…
- NORTH CHINA, 1207 A.D.
- THE ISLAND
- AN ORKNEY CALENDAR
- CRANE TOWER
- MOONRISE
- RIMBAUD
- HARDY
- METAPHOR
- WARP AND WEFT
- ARTIST AND MODEL
- TUTORIAL ON BEING…
- EMILY DICKINSON
- THE LAST ANECDOTE
- THIRD HYPOTHESIS ON THE…
- ALEXANDRIA, 31 BC
- HIROSHIMA
- HERMITAGE WOOD
- THE HILL POOL
- TO POSTERITY
- Contact
BITTERNESS
Snow lie deep, but never so deep
As drift the snows on me.
Hurt heart break, but never so break
As break and bury me.
Breath be bitter, but never again
So fierce as spent on me.
Thought be bitter and words taste bitter
As salt on the tongue at sea,
But never so bitter a flower as she –
Take from me.
Poems in Order
- THE HEART OF LOTHIAN
- BEETHOVEN’S HAT
- POEM NOT TO BE SPOKEN
- IN PRINCIPIO
- VOCABULARY FOR A HERO…
- AUSCHWITZ
- SUMMER SNOW
- AFTER BERKELEY
- DURHAM
- MARINA TSVETAEVA
- TWO DEATHS
- AT AVEBURY
- INCIDENT OFF ICELAND
- THE DREAM
- LULLABY
- LAUGHTER
- THE HEART’S UNDESIGN
- UNLEARNED
- BITTERNESS
- ROSE BRIAR
- EPITAPH
- INTERCESSION IN LATE…
- NORTH CHINA, 1207 A.D.
- THE ISLAND
- AN ORKNEY CALENDAR
- CRANE TOWER
- MOONRISE
- RIMBAUD
- HARDY
- METAPHOR
- WARP AND WEFT
- ARTIST AND MODEL
- TUTORIAL ON BEING…
- EMILY DICKINSON
- THE LAST ANECDOTE
- THIRD HYPOTHESIS ON THE…
- ALEXANDRIA, 31 BC
- HIROSHIMA
- HERMITAGE WOOD
- THE HILL POOL
- TO POSTERITY