Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems Quotes

To live at all is miracle enough.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries, Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and