Edwin Muir Face Poems

  • 1.
    Unfriendly friendly universe,
    I pack your stars into my purse,
    And bid you so farewell.
    That I can leave you, quite go out,
    ...
  • 2.
    The angel and the girl are met
    Earth was the only meeting place.
    For the embodied never yet
    Travelled beyond the shore of space.
    ...
  • 3.
    Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.
    I in my mind had waited for this long,
    Seeing the false and searching for the true,
    Then found you as a traveller finds a place
    ...
  • 4.
    รข??I give you half of me;
    No more, lest I should make
    A ground for perjury.
    For your sake, for my sake,
    ...
  • 5.
    Issuing from the Word
    The seven days came,
    Each in its own place,
    Its own name.
    ...
  • 6.
    Boswell by my bed,
    Tolstoy on my table;
    Thought the world has bled
    For four and a half years,
    ...
  • 7.
    It was not meant for human eyes,
    That combat on the shabby patch
    Of clods and trampled turf that lies
    Somewhere beneath the sodden skies
    ...
Total 7 Face Poems by Edwin Muir

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