Poems

At noon, the wheat field becomes a storm of arrows and chariots, and Hippolyta rides into its red heart with her bow drawn. What awaits her when Theseus turns from battle to pursuit?

Frederic Manning’s early-20th-century Poems moves from the clash of mythic armies to quieter reckonings with love, loss and memory. Here, the dead plead at a shut door for the warmth of their old hearth; elsewhere, Tristram’s longing makes even the stars and seas seem empty. Across these changing voices, nature glimmers, grieves and echoes the human heart. What other voices will rise from these pages?

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