Stevie Smith, Selected Poems

"Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed."

"It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling."