Poems by John Betjeman
Ireland With Emily
... Soared the arches, splayed and splendid, ...
Cornish Cliffs
... The veined sea-campion buds burst into whiteAnd gorse turns tawny orange, seen beside ...
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
... The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, ...
South London Sketch
... Where blue-serged adolescence learn'd ...
Upper Lambourne
... Shift the shade and make it run -Shift the shade toward the nettles, ...
Dilton Marsh Halt
... Will bring their catches of rods and poles and perches ...
An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield
... In blushing eighteen!Your prospects will please her, ...
Winter Landscape
... Descend, while three birds watch and the fourth flies ...
Winter Seascape
... Blown backward, rearing from the shore, ...
A Bay In Anglesey
... Are shells, dried bladderwrack, broken glass,Pale blue squills and yellow rock roses ...
Trebetherick
... And the pheasant and the rabbit lay torn open at the throat ...
The Cottage Hospital
... While the air is swimming with insects and children play in the street ...
Back From Australia
... Leave Bray Hill barren, Stepper jutting bare, ...
Westgate-On-Sea
... Bright with ironwork and glass,Striving chains of ordered children ...
Verses Turned...
... The Lord's Commandments, Prayer and Creed, ...
