Poems by Clive Staples Lewis
After Prayers, Lie Cold
... Undress with small, cold fingers and put out the light, ...
An Expostulation
... Against too many writers of science fiction Why did you lure us on like this, ...
As the Ruin Falls
... The pains You give me are more precious than all other gains ...
Cliche Came Out of its Cage
... at the hour Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave ...
Evolutionary Hymn
... Spreads and spawns and licks each rival, ...
On a Vulgar Error
... They did not.Plate-armour, or windows glazed, or verse fire-hot ...
On Being Human
... but not The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries ...
Prelude to Space
... Courage, wealth, knowledge, concentrated will,Straining with lust to stamp ...
Re-adjustment
... Of gentle hearts: someone, however distant in the depths of time, ...
Science-fiction Cradlesong
... Now we ride Closed in steel, up there, outside ...
The Condemned
... In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer's hand, ...
The Country of the Blind
... Warm tints change in a lady's cheek,None complained he had used words from an alien tongue, ...
The Meteorite
... From heaven, on these her plastic power ...
