Poems by John Betjeman
Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
... who took heroin, then sleeping pills, and who lies in a New York hospital ...
The Erotic Philosophers
... Now I live with a well-trained soul who deals with evil, ...
A Muse of Water
... Drained for his cofferdams, or stored ...
Bitch
... ” At a kind word from him, a look like the old days, ...
Food of Love
... I’ll sun myself in you, then with one swallow ...
The Great Blue Heron
... s coat. Shadow without a shadow, ...
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
... d---and, terrible-eyed,He brushed past the palms on the staircase And was helped to a hansom outside ...
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
... hunder-quakeCan cause the mighty walls of Heaven to shakeAs now they do, to hear a boy's heart break ...
Indoor Games near Newbury
... ressing Wendy bending gives a blessing,Holds me as I drift to dreamland, safe inside my slumber-wear ...
N. W. 5 & N. 6
... rcibly fed when sprawled across her kneeLock'd into cupboards, left alone all day,"World without end ...
