Geoffrey Hill Short Poems
Famous Short Geoffrey Hill Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Geoffrey Hill. A collection of the all-time best Geoffrey Hill short poems
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Geoffrey Hill
He drove at evening through the hushed Vosges.
The car radio,
glimmering, received broken utterance from the horizon of storms.
.
.
'God's honours - our bikes touched: he skidded and came off.
' 'Liar.
' A
timid father's protective bellow.
Disfigurement of a village king.
'Just
look at the bugger.
.
.
'
His maroon GT chanted then overtook.
He lavished on the high valleys its
haleine.
by
Geoffrey Hill
King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the
M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the citadel at
Tamworth, the summer hermitage in Holy Cross: guardian of the Welsh
Bridge and the Iron Bridge: contractor to the desirable new estates:
saltmaster: money-changer: commissioner for oaths: martyrologist: the
friend of Charlemagne.
'I liked that,' said Offa, 'sing it again.
'