The Roger Lonsdale archive, at Balliol College, Oxford, includes his reflections, in 2005, on his poetry, with lists of his ninety poems—alphabetically by first lines, and chronologically—as well as his notebooks as a poet; and, at that time, he noted, in reference to these sixteen poems from Un-Gyve Press in a numbered, limited edition of seventy-five: “At present the following seem worth preserving for one reason or another.”
Parting
Written circa 1959, New Haven
There are days when all turns capable of grief,
Deploring rain, outraging wind, and sky
Burdened with fire;
When causes of corresponding sorrow cry
From any heart — absence without relief,
Heavy desire.
Then is it to be vile or natural
To find the following day the weather calm,
Know those late sufferings
Too vast for lamentation, to pace a room
Only an hour catching at pain, once more to fall
To small and regular things?
The Roger Lonsdale archive, at Balliol College, Oxford, includes his reflections, in 2005, on his poetry, with lists of his ninety poems—alphabetically by first lines, and chronologically—as well as his notebooks as a poet; and, at that time, he noted, in reference to these sixteen poems from Un-Gyve Press in a numbered, limited edition of seventy-five: “At present the following seem worth preserving for one reason or another.”