Henry Treece White Poems

• 1. Ages
  In that stone head, obscenity
  Has been preserved a thousand years;
  A bible-leaf of families
  Have shuddered at the pointed ears.
  ...
• 2. The Old Ones
  The old ones knew that black was hate,
  White garment purity and red one sin;
  They spoke the language of the trees
  And opened veins to let love in.
  ...
• 3. Relics
  In that stone head, obscenity
  Has been preserved a thousand years;
  A bible-leaf of families
  Have shuddered at the pointed ears.
  ...
• 4. Revenente
  The bells of memory sound this summer day
  Down the long alleys of the blue-skied years;
  Shy cowslip, thyme, the haunting scent of hay,
  Pleached gardens nourished by a lover's tears,
  ...
• 5. Poem - Iii
  Through the dark aisles of the wood
  Where the pine-needles deaden all sound
  And the dove flutters in the black boughs
  
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