Poem of the week: a selection from Verses for Pictures by William Morris

William Morris’s collection of miniature verses relating to paintings or tapestries is a great introduction to the English designer’s verse

Winter

I am Winter that do keep

Longing safe amidst of sleep:

Who shall say if I were dead

What should be remembered?

The Woodpecker

I once a King and chief

Now am the tree-bark’s thief,

Ever ’twixt trunk and leaf

Chasing the prey.

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