Elegy Lyrics

Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearin...Read Full Lyrics

'Find meat on bones that soon have none, And drink in the two milked crags, The merriest marrow and the dregs Before the ladies' breasts are hags And the limbs are torn. Distu...Read Full Lyrics

From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apr...Read Full Lyrics

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was Green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in...Read Full Lyrics

If I were tickled by the rub of love, A rooking girl who stole me for her side, Broke through her straws, breaking my bandaged string, If the red tickle as the cattle calve Still s...Read Full Lyrics

If my head hurt a hair's foot Pack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my Breath Bump on a spout let the bubbles jump out. Sooner drop with the worm of the ropes round m...Read Full Lyrics

A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume. Strait in the mazed bed She del...Read Full Lyrics

Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry Under the conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill, And there this night I walk in the white giant's thigh Where barren as bo...Read Full Lyrics

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glowworms in their heads, The things of light File thro...Read Full Lyrics

I Half of the fellow father as he doubles His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk, Half of the fellow mother as she dabbles To-morrow's diver in her horny milk, Bisected shad...Read Full Lyrics