I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath.
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It was my bridal night I remember,
I lay with my young bride in my arms,A girl with t.b.It was wartime, and overheadThe Germans were making a particularly heavy raid on Hampstead.Harry, do they ever collide?I do not think it has ever happened,Oh my bride, my bride.
I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace
I do not ask that suffering shall cease.I do not pray to God to let me dieTo give an ear attentive to my cryTo pause in his marching and not hurry by.I do not ask for anything I do not speakI do not question and I do not seekI used to in the day when…
Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess,
He jumped into a taxi when he saw me coming,Leaving my alone with a private meaning,He loves me so much, my heart is singing.Later at the Club when I rang him in the eveningThey said: Sir Rat is dining, is dining, is dining,No madam, he left no messafe, ah how his silence speaks,He loves me…
Tenuous and Precarious
Precarious and Tenuous,Two Romans.My father was Hazardous,HazardousDear old man,Three Romans.There was my brother Spurious,Spurious Posthumous,Spurious was Spurious,Was four Romans.My husband was Perfidious,He was PerfidiousFive Romans.Surreptitious, our son,Was Surreptitious,He was six Romans.Our cat TediousStill lives,Count not TediousYet.My name is Finis,Finis, Finis,I am Finis,Six, five, four, three, two,One Roman,Finis.
After reading Dr Rieu’s translation of St Mark’s Gospel.
This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland walking,Others take him by the hand, lead him, do the talking.But the Form, the airy One, frowns an airy frown,What they say he knows must be, but he looks aloofly down,Looks aloofly at…
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
Then why did he hurry to let him in?He could have hid in the house.It was not right of Coleridge in fact it was wrong(But often we all do wrong)As the truth is I think he was already stuckWith Kubla Khan.He was weeping and wailing: I am finished, finished,I shall never write another word of…