Edwin Muir Face Poems
- 1. The Child Dying
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
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. The Confirmation
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. Circle And Square
รข??I give you half of me;
No more, lest I should make
A ground for perjury.
For your sake, for my sake,
... - 5. The Days
Issuing from the Word
The seven days came,
Each in its own place,
Its own name.
... - 6. Reading In Wartime
Boswell by my bed,
Tolstoy on my table;
Thought the world has bled
For four and a half years,
... - 7. The Combat
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
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