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Selected Poems of Ted Hughes

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When the eagle soared clear through a dawn distilling of
emerald
When the curlew trawled in seadusk through a chime of
wineglasses
When the swallow swooped through a woman‘s song in a
cavern
And the swift flicked through the breath of a violet
When the owl sailed clear of tomorrow‘s conscience
And the sparrow preened himself of yesterday‘s promise
And the heron laboured clear of the Bessemer upglare
And the bluetit zipped clear of lace panties
And the woodpecker drummed clear of the rotovator and
the rose-farm
And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat
While the bullfinch plumped in the apple bud
And the goldfinch bulbed in the sun
And the wryneck crooked in the moon
And the dipper peered from the dewball
Crow spraddled head-down in the beach-garbage, guzzling
a dropped ice-cream.
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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

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"Crow and the Birds" appears on "Selected Poems of Ted Hughes".

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