27 JUNE 1992, page 33

Half-hoping

We parted; but, half-hoping She might perhaps relent, She might perhaps have spoken words She had not really meant, Over my shoulder, now and then, I looked back as I went. Anon......

Stairway

Of that long stairway leading to my heart's Most sweet, most secret door, He whom I longed to see ascend the steps Scarce managed three or four.......

What's In A Name?

Mark Archer FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: THE LESSON OF LLOYD'S OF LONDON by Jonathan Mantle Sinclair-Stevenson, £18, pp. 358 I n a week in which Lloyd's is expected to report record......

How Close A Comrade To Myself I Feel, How Never

more near, Lone in the wetness of this raining morning Standing here Watching the small path through the graveyard taper,......

Agony

What agony, our dream-encounters. Can you not understand How pitiably a man is torn, How utterly unmanned, To wake with hands stretched out for one Beyond all reach of hand?......