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Geoffrey Hill (18 June 1932 / Worcestershire)
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''Platonic England, house of solitudes,
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England. . . New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.
rests in its laurels and its injured stone,''
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''Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England. . . New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.
with smoky wings, entangles them.''
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''By blood we live, the hot, the cold,
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. Genesis (l. 40-42). . . New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.
To ravage and redeem the world:
There is no bloodless myth will hold.''
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'''Beware
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. Genesis (l. 16-20). . . New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.
The soft-voiced owl, the ferret's smile,
The hawk's deliberate stoop in air,
Cold eyes, and bodies hooped in steel,
Forever bent upon the kill.'''
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''When snow like sheep lay in the fold''
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. In Memory of Jane Fraser (l. 1). . . New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.
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''In the schoolyard,in the cloakrooms, the children boasted their
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. Mercian Hymns (l. 12-14). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
scars of dried snot;wrists and knees garnished with impetigo.''
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''As estimated, you died. Things marched,
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. September Song (l. 4-7). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
sufficient, to that end.
Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
terror, so many routine cries.''
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