Famous English Poems

1# House Martin

When death's toll is too high

against bloody tyrant time,

of e'ery parting look this world

to a land of fairies abides by thee alone,

that to my mind still my shipwrecked dreams

of love-sick thought on thee by the sea-ashore,

too deep for woe in vain words thy spell to cast out

of honey-bees in the bower:

oft marked by what I write beyond the sunrise,

I behold that crow's quill at the pedestal of thy throne,

more bright than e'ery fair from thy fairest brow,

of furrowed fields in the harvest moon;

along the pavement of cow parsley in e'er melting snow,

to my eyes so blind upon the sand dunes of golden tress his hair,

scarlet-jewels of masonary's night through the staircase window of the wall,

still in autumn leaves unfold a dust-covered page of thy book,

away from out of sight in Hades of a star,

the Eagle on wings by the countryside

that day of unaltered eye thy gilded monument astounds.

  

(C) [Naveed Khalid]

2# Holy! Holy!

This Daedelian image in thy solemn mien,

of Andromeda Galaxy, BX 442,

has but a star fixed in the constellations,

a broken shaft's feathered mast at north,

that grows by goosebumps of e'ery pouring shadow;

and an imprint of forfeited dark

through thine holy eyen!

feeds upon a hundred moths a day,

sunburnt dream of the world

to illumine in ecstasy of love,

around the lamp of elliptical illusions.

(C) [Naveed Khalid]

3# Dreamland Ii

When, my Lord, from dust shall raise,

worn-out by time my old days anew,

of barren rhyme this deserted time,

that to my well-contented day be still

of a hundred shadows by thy grave;

and so by night a star,

wide awake from deep inside

unto e'er changing world;

by travel tired my pilgrimage to thee

will end all heartaches and desires,

sickening to the bones, my love,

foiled in dust-covered page of thy book.

(C) [Naveed Khalid]