Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford‘s most recent collection of poems is Testament (Cape, 2014). His prose books include the biography Young Eliot (Cape, 2015). He teaches at the University of St Andrews and is President of the Classical Association.


 


Murlins o Alcaeus

…naw … I …

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…I wis…

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     …Alcaeus…

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as if haalin fae the gray Mey flude …

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    …yirdit steids …

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    …seegnals, wheens o starns…

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       …awnerless…

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    …whan ye sauf thaim as they tyne…

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… they wid yet get…


 


Fragments of Alcaeus

…no …. I ….

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…I was…

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     …Alcaeus…

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as if drawing from the grey sea …

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   … submerged places …

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   …signs, constellations…

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        …ownerless…

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   …when you save them as they perish …

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  …they would still become…


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