A love in verse

Storm and Stress

2013-01-22
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Across the view the long wall stretches

Dark, but topped with lonely snow

Stark branches grasp a sky that’s low

In hope or joy and only fetches

To the scene notes melancholic

A sombre vista, not a frolic!


Yet like the evergreens that strive

While winter weighs on everything

To half remind one of the spring

I choose to see hope’s well alive

And shines for me in two fine eyes

That can eclipse the summer skies


Who would complain of Sturm und Drang

If they had seen those dark curls hang

Near eyes that give one’s heart a pang? 

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Needs Must

All through the years every now and then

I’ve made my lists and packed my bag

To leave old Brentford town again...

Hope +

Even the dull eternal afternoon 

Lit dustily by sun on the Eastern side

Of dear old Mafeking gleams...