Author: Ted Hughes

“No, the serpent did not Seduce Eve to the apple. All that’s simply Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the […]

The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother’s heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars […]

Freezing dusk is closing Like a slow trap of steel On trees and roads and hills and all That can […]

She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He […]

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding […]

We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold […]

When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white. He decided it glared much too whitely. He decided […]

Crow, feeling his brain slip, Finds his every feather the fossil of a murder. Who murdered all these? These living […]

The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, A vast balloon, Till it takes off, and […]

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my […]

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and […]

To Paint a Water Lily A green level of lily leaves Roofs the pond’s chamber and paves The flies’ furious […]

The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer, A blue-dark knot of glittering voltage, A whiplash swimmer, a fish […]

In the beginning was Scream Who begat Blood Who begat Eye Who begat Fear Who begat Wing Who begat Bone […]

I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children’s eyes. Through your […]