Love & Relationships Poetry

• When We Two Parted

  "In silence and tears"

  "In secret we met/ in silence I grieve"

  "Long, long shall I rue thee, too deeply to tell"
• Porphyria's Lover

  "Gilded in Porphyria; straight. She shut the cold out and the storm"

  "and yet God has not said a word"

  "Three times her little throat around and strangled her. No pain felt she."
• Love's Philosophy

  "the winds of heaven mix forever/with a sweet emotion"

  "What are all these kissings worth if thou not kiss me?"

  "All things by a law divine"
• Eden Rock

  "eden rock" (title)

  "The sky whitens as if lit by three suns"

  "I had not thought it would be like this"
• Letters from Yorkshire

  "Its you who sends me word of that other world"

  "You out there in the cold... Heartful of headlines"

  "Pouring air and light into an envelope"
• Follower

  "All I ever did was follow/ in his broad shadow"

  "its my father who keeps stumbling"

  "I was a nuisance, tripping, falling/ Yapping always"
• Mother, any distance

  "You at the zero end"

  "Unreeling years between us"

  "Anchor. Kite"