Anne Barbara Ridler God Poems
- 1. A Letter
Lying in bed this morning, just a year
Since our first days, I was trying to assess --
... - 2. Collected Poems (1994)
Lying in bed this morning, just a year
Since our first days, I was trying to assess -
Against my natural caution - by desire
And how the fact outdid it, my happiness:
... - 3. Edlesborough
Beyond the Chiltern coast, this church:
A lighthouse in dry seas of standing corn.
Bees hive in the tower; the outer stone
Pared and frittered in sunlight, flakes with the years:
... - 4. At Parting
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... - 5. Poem For A Christmas Broadcast
Woman s Voice
Perhaps you find the angel most improbable?
It spoke to men asleep, their minds ajar
For once to admit the entrance of a stranger.
... - 6. Before Sleep
Now that you lie
In London afar,
And may sleep longer
Though lonelier,
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