Lucy Robinson

Poems (3)

• A Ballade of Islands

  I would I had been island-born. / I dearly love things insular: …

• Hic Me, Pater Optime, Fessam Deseris

  Ere yet in Vergil I could scan or spell, / Or through the enchanted portal of that lay …

• The Fire i' the Flint

  The sudden thrust of speech is no mean test / Of man or woman. Caesar, with his cry …