lamp-shaped and shadowy in twilight, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, is one of beauty and menace. The quotation marks around "thy" imply the uncertainty over who holds, and who deserves, the title of sovereign authority; that "densely-reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters" is part of a troubling and unstable image of arrogant power and perpetual conflict.[by Geoffrey Hill]
To the High Court of Parliament:
November 1994
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: To the High Court of Parliament: November 1994
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