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Frederick Morgan

Poetry

Autumn 1957

Scene

By Frederick Morgan

Tentative      on the sunny hill three men of mist      gaze down the valley. Blue-robed, they come      from the blue sky: their heads contain      unyielding wisdom. Comets, planets,      the vehement stars,all […]

Poetry

Autumn 1957

Etude

By Frederick Morgan

There are no peacocks in my house, the peacocks stride on the lawns; there are no swans in my strong house, the lake is clouded with swans. But dreams of […]

Poetry

Autumn 1957

The Last Days

By Frederick Morgan

Par les champs de lauriers-roses        dans un temps d'orage au bruit confus des tambourins         I set up my menage in a still grove of beeches, where         winds mask their tragedies beneath […]