Then Was My Neophyte Lyrics

There was a saviour Rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth; Children kept from the sun Assembled at his tongue To hear the golden note turn in a groove, ...Read Full Lyrics

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wine at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy. Once in t...Read Full Lyrics

This side of the truth, You may not see, my son, King of your blue eyes In the blinding country of youth, That all is undone, Under the unminding skies, Of innocence and guil...Read Full Lyrics

Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes. (Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.) In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor Sewin...Read Full Lyrics

To-day, this insect, and the world I breathe, Now that my symbols have outelbowed space, Time at the city spectacles, and half The dear, daft time I take to nudge the sentence, ...Read Full Lyrics

Friend by enemy I call you out. You with a bad coin in your socket, You my friend there with a winning air Who palmed the lie on me when you looked Brassily at my shyest secret...Read Full Lyrics

Unluckily for a death Waiting with phoenix under The pyre yet to be lighted of my sins and days, And for the woman in shades Saint carved and sensual among the scudding Dead a...Read Full Lyrics

Who Are you Who is born In the next room So loud to my own That I can hear the womb Opening and the dark run Over the ghost and the dropped son Behind the wall thin as a wr...Read Full Lyrics

Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children's circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has sent its maggot on th...Read Full Lyrics

We lying by seasand, watching yellow And the grave sea, mock who deride Who follow the red rivers, hollow Alcove of words out of cicada shade, For in this yellow grave of sand ...Read Full Lyrics