Fire And Ice

Fire and Ice 

by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

Autumn

by T.E. Hulme

A touch of cold in the Autumn night

I walked abroad,

And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge

Like a red-faced farmer.

I did not stop to speak, but nodded, And round about were the wistful stars

With white faces like town children.

The Pool

by H.D

Are you alive?

I touch you.

You quiver like a sea-fish.

I cover you with my net.

What are you– banded one?

Snowdrop

by Ted Hughes

Now is the globe shrunk tight

Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.

Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,

Move through an outer darkness

Not in their right minds,

With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,

Brutal as the stars of this month,

Her pale head heavy as metal.