Poems

• Ozymandias:

  • "I met a traveller from an antique land"
  • "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
  • "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings"
  • "nothing beside remains"
  • "Boundless and bare"
  • "Lone and level sands stretch far away."
• London:

  • "I wander through each chartered street,"
  • "In every infant's cry of fear,"
  • "Mind-forged manacles I hear:"
  • "Every black'ning church appalls,"
  • "Youthful harlot's curse"
  • "Blasts the new-born infant's tears,"
  • "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
• Charge of The Light Brigade:

  • "All in the valley of Death"
  • "Someone had blunder'd"
  • "While horse and hero fell"
  • "Valley'd and thunder'd"
  • "When can their glory fade?"
  • "Honour the charge they made! / Honour the Light Brigade"
  • "All the world wonder'd"
• Storm on the Island:

  • "Spits like a tame cat turned savage"
  • "While wind dives / and strafes invisibly"
  • "Space is a salvo"
  • "Bombarded by the empty air"
  • "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
  • "We are prepared: we build our houses squat."
• Bayonet Charge:

  • "Suddenly he awoke and was running"
  • "Raw in raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy" (Link to Spring Offensive)
  • "Dazzled with rifle fire"
  • "Cold clockwork of the stars and the nations"
  • "Statuary in mid stride. Then the shot-slashed furrows"
  • "Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame"
  • "Bayonet toward the green hedge,"
  • "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
  • "His terror's touchy dynamite."
• Poppies:

  • "Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade"
  • "Ran my finger through the gelled blackthorns of your hair"
  • "Released a song bird from its cage"
  • "A winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves."
  • "Leaned against it like a wish bone"
  • "I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind"
  • "A single dove flew from the pear tree"
• The Emigree:

  • "There was once a country... I left it as a child"
  • "Branded by an impression of sunlight"
  • "White streets of that city, the graceful slopes"
  • "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state"
  • "Own white plane" "No way back at all"
  • "I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"
  • "They accuse me of absence, they circle me"
  • "They accuse me of being dark in their free city"
  • "They mutter death"
  • "My city hides behind me"
  • "My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight"
• Kamikaze:

  • "Her father embarked at sunrise"
  • "A shaven head / full of powerful incantations"
  • "Little fishing boats / strung out like bunting"
  • "Nor did she meet his eyes"
  • "Till gradually we too learned"
  • "This was no longer the father we loved"
  • "Which had been the better way to die."
• My Last Duchess:

  • "Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I"
  • "She liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere"
  • "My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
  • "But who passed without much the same smile?"
  • "I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together."
  • "Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse ... which Claus of Innsburck cast in bronze for me!"
• Exposure:

  • "Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent..."
  • Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous"
  • "Poignant misery of dawn" .. "Her melancholy army"
  • "Deep into grassier ditches."
  • "Cringe in holes"
  • "Twitching agonies"
  • "Dull rumour of some other war."
• Remains:

  • "Probably armed, possibly not"
  • "End of story, except not really."
  • "But near to the knuckle, here and now, / his bloody life in my bloody hands."
  • "Drink and the drugs won't flush him out-"
  • "He's here in my head when I close my eyes,"
  • "Not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land / or six-feet-under in desert sand,"
• The Prelude:

  • "Upreared its head"
  • "Heaving through the water"
  • "Stole my way / Back to the covert of the willow tree;"
  • "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point"
  • "There hung a darkness, call it solitude"
  • "A trouble to my dreams."
• War Photographer:

  • "All flesh is grass."
  • "Fields which don't explode beneath the feet / of running children in a nightmare heat."
  • "Something is happening."
  • "He remembers the cries of this man's wife"
  • "Blood stained into foreign dust."
• Tissue:

  • "Paid by credit card / might fly our lives like paper kites"
  • "The height and weight, who / died where and how, on which sepia date, / pages smoothed"
  • "Maps too."
  • "Paper that lets the light shine through"
  • "Find a way to trace a grand design / with living tissue, raise a structure / never meant to last."
  • "Thinned to be transparent,"
• Checking Out Me History:

  • "Even when de British said no"
  • "I carving out me identity"
  • "Bandage up me eye"
  • "but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon"
  • "a yellow sunrise"
  • "mountain dream"
  • "1066 and all dat"