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Black Harrys Team

...No soft-skinned Durham steers are they, 
No Devons plump and red, 
But brindled, black and iron-grey 
That mark the mountain-bred; 
For mountain-bred and mountain-broke, 
With sullen eyes agleam, 
No stranger's hand could put a yoke 
On old Black Harry's team. 


Pull out, pull out, at break of morn 
The creeks are running white, 
And Tiger, Spot and Snailey-horn 
Must bend...Read more of this...

Come show thy Durham Breast

...Come show thy Durham Breast
To her who loves thee best,
Delicious Robin --
And if it be not me
At least within my Tree
Do the avowing --
Thy Nuptial so minute
Perhaps is more astute
Than vaster suing --
For so to soar away
Is our propensity
The Day ensuing --...Read more of this...

Inspiration From A Visitation Of My Muse

...ut in their dotage.After my mother’s funeral

None wanted contact: I had been judged in my absence

And found wanting.

Durham was not my county,

Hardly my country, memories from childhood

Of Hunwick Village with its single cobbled street

Of squat stone cottages and paved yards

With earth closets and stacks of sawn logs

Perfuming the air with their sap

In a way only French poets could say

And that is why we have no word but clich?

‘Reflect’ or ‘make come alive’ or oth...Read more of this...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment C

...eed. The Lord Jesus make musick of it. Good Friday 1761. 

Let Josiphiah rejoice with Tower-Mustard. God be gracious to Durham School. 

Let Shether-boznai rejoice with Turnera. End of Lent 1761. No. 5. 

Let Jozadak rejoice with Stephanitis a vine growing naturally into chaplets. 

Let Jozabad rejoice with the Lily-Daffodil. Easter Day 22nd March 1761. 

Let Telem rejoice with Hart's Penny-royal. 

Let Abdi rejoice with Winter-green. God be gracious to Abdy. 

Let Binnui rej...Read more of this...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment D

...esus Voice and Instrument. 

Let Bland, house of Bland rejoice with Lacta a kind of Cassia. God be gracious to Bland of Durham and the Widow George. 

Let Abington, house of Abington rejoice with Lea a kind of Colewort praise him upon the sound of the trumpet. 

Let Adcock, house of Adcock rejoice with Lada a shrub, which has gummy leaves. 

Let Snow, house of Snow rejoice with Hysginum a plant dying Scarlet. 

Let Wardell, house of Wardell rejoice with Leiostreum a smooth oy...Read more of this...

Summer With Margaret

...green with

Tassels in between and a huge

White bolster. My mam would have

Had a fit but she was off on

The train to Durham City and even

Margaret herself was a bit surprised

At her mam being so easy going

But that was her mam all over.

There was a tiny skylight

With just enough light to see by,

A huge mahogany chest of drawers

And Margaret and me. I’d never

Undressed in front of a girl

Before and Margaret said, "Me mam

’Ad no business mekin’ us share"

And went ...Read more of this...

Theme For English B

...l be true.

I wonder if it's that simple?
I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.
I went to school there, then Durham, then here
to this college on the hill above Harlem.
I am the only colored student in my class.
The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem,
through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas,
Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y,
the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator
up to my room, sit down, and write this page:

It's not easy to know what i...Read more of this...

Three Songs For Mayday Morning

...the thousand,

Mailed through the university's internal post. She called

The VC 'a mouse from the mountain'; Bishop of Durham to-be

David Jenkins a wimp and worse and all in colourful verse

And 'Guntrip's Ghost' went to every VC in England in a

Single day. When she sat on the English lawn Park Honan

Flew paper aeroplanes with messages down and

And when she was in Classics they took away her chair

So she sat on the floor reading Virgil and the Chairman of the

Departmen...Read more of this...

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