Tag: Kathleen Raine

  • Poems by Rosemarie Rowley

    ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR   I have not been keeping a ledger or account book Of double entries, for the cost and price Is not reckoned in the way you look Or what you said, in whatever form or guise I’ll never know your motives or intentions Whether you acted blindly or on…

  • “Dreamers” by Dorothy Wellesley

    We are become like phantoms of the night Thro’ the heart’s pity and the heart’s delight.   For we have wandered with the wasting streams Across the flower-stained solitude of dreams, The blossom-scattered waterways of dreams.   For we have crossed the lotus-covered lake, Where only the sunk places do shake Beneath the waters, and…

  • ‘Angelus’ by Kathleen Raine.

    I see the blue, the green, the golden and the red, I have forgotten all the angel said. The flower, the leaf, the meadow and the tree, But of the words I have no memory. I heard the swift, the martin, and the wren, But what was told me, past all thought is gone. The…