Poetry by Heart / by Nathan Jones

It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
— Louis MacNeice in Bagpipe Music (1938)
The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
— W. H. Auden in As I Walked Out One Evening (1940)