Date: 1959
"O quiet deed! / This is the breaking of the bread; / On this the leanest heart may feed / When by the stiffly-linened priest / All wounds of light are newly dressed, / Healed by the pouring-in of wine / From bitter — as from sweet — grapes bled."
preview | full record— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)
Date: 1959
"And so my heart has ceased to breathe / (Though there God's worm blunted its head / And stayed.)"
preview | full record— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)