Ted Hughes

A Woman Unconscious Russia and America circle each other; Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days She gives him his eyes, she found them Crow's Fall When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white. Crow's Nerve Fails Crow, feeling his brain slip, Examination at the Womb-Door Who owns those scrawny little feet? Death. Full Moon and Little Frieda A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket - Hawk Roosting I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. How To Paint A Water Lily To Paint a Water Lily Light Eased eyes open, showed leaves. Lineage In the beginning was Scream Lovesong He loved her and she loved him. Macaw and Little Miss In a cage of wire-ribs Old Age Gets Up Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks September We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: The Harvest Moon The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, The Minotaur The mahogany table-top you smashed Theology "No, the serpent did not The Owl I saw my world again through your eyes The Thought-Fox I imagine this midnight moment's forest: The Warm and the Cold Freezing dusk is closing Thistles Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thrushes Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, Tractor The tractor stands frozen - an agony Wind This house has been far out at sea all night, Work and Play The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer,