Poems by Alec Derwent Hope
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Australia
... Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come, Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare ...
Commination
... For mine are few and of the piddling kind: Drivellers, snivellers, writers of bad verse, ...
Conquistador
... The pygmies showed him their forbidden lake And then transfixed him with their poison darts ...
Crossing the Frontier
... In the trees Two furtive birds stopped courting and flew off ...
Death of the Bird
... And the great earth, with neither grief nor malice, ...
Easter Hymn
... Knowing they watch you from the darkened gardens ...
Meditation on a Bone
... A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A ...
Morning Coffee
... Brings sceptic Didymus his berserk food, Sits deftly, folding elegant thighs, and takes ...
Observation Car
... are going and just where the hell we are, Remembering how I planned to break the journey, to drive ...
Parabola
... 'Now' is a cross-roads where all maps prove blank, ...
Phallus
... Whose weapon is her wound Fends off the knife, the sword, ...
Standardization
... he streamlined hulls of fish, the snail's long eyes, Love, which still pours into its ancient mould ...
The Gateway
... The breasts have borne the grace of their possession, ...
The Pleasure of Princes
... Keep vigil like a lover, muse and smile,And think, to see from the grim castle steep ...
The Return of Persephone
... His cool, bright glance and heard his words ring out:"Queen of the Dead and Mistress of the Year!" ...
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