Portrait of Anne Ridler

Anne Ridler

In Regent's Park

From Poems. Oxford University Press, 1939.

Dahlias down the banks flow crisp and bright,
the grass is winter-short and pungent,
dipping oars are plangent,
and in the light mist, dripping grey like silk,
water and trees and air seem smoothed in milk...

Two stanzas of description followed by four of imaginative speculation.