Francis Brett Young Black Poems

  • 1.
    These winter days on Lettermore
    The brown west wind it sweeps the bay,
    And icy rain beats on the bare
    Unhomely fields that perish there:
    ...
  • 2.
    Out of that high pavilion
    Where the sick, wind-harassed sun
    In the whiteness of the day
    Ghostly shone and stole away -
    ...
  • 3.
    Over that morn hung heaviness, until,
    Near sunless noon, we heard the ship's bell beating
    A melancholy staccato on dead metal;
    Saw the bare-footed watch come running aft;
    ...
  • 4.
    When the evening came my love said to me:
    Let us go into the garden now that the sky is cool;
    The garden of black hellebore and rosemary,
    Where wild woodruff spills in a milky pool.
    ...
  • 5.
    Before my window, in days of winter hoar
    Huddled a mournful wood:
    Smooth pillars of beech, domed chestnut, sycamore,
    In stony sleep they stood:
    ...
Total 5 Black Poems by Francis Brett Young

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