Book: War is Kind and Other Lines

• From: War Is Kind

  Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
  Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky

  29 lines, 2 comments
• What says the sea, little shell

  "What says the sea, little shell?
  What says the sea?

  34 lines
• To the maiden

  To the maiden
  The sea was blue meadow,

  10 lines
• When the prophet, a complacent fat man

  When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
  Arrived at the mountain-top,

  6 lines, 1 comment
• Have you ever made a just man?

  "Have you ever made a just man?"
  "Oh, I have made three," answered God,

  6 lines, 1 comment
• The Peaks

  In the night
  Grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys,

  27 lines
• I Explain

  I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
  The sweep of each sad lost wave,

  13 lines
• There was a man with tongue of wood

  There was a man with tongue of wood
  Who essayed to sing,

  8 lines
• I have heard the sunset song of the birches

  "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
  A white melody in the silence,

  10 lines
• The impact of a dollar upon the heart

  The impact of a dollar upon the heart
  Smiles warm red light,

  22 lines
• Fast rode the knight

  Fast rode the knight
  With spurs, hot and reeking,

  16 lines
• Ay, workman, make me a dream

  Ay, workman, make me a dream,
  A dream for my love.

  7 lines, 1 comment
• Forth went the candid man

  Forth went the candid man
  And spoke freely to the wind --

  11 lines
• The successful man has thrust himself

  The successful man has thrust himself
  Through the water of the years,

  24 lines, 5 comments
• You tell me this is God?

  You tell me this is God?
  I tell you this is a printed list,

  3 lines, 1 comment
• The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top

  The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top
  Blood -- blood and torn grass --

  13 lines, 4 comments
• On the desert

  On the desert
  A silence from the moon's deepest valley.

  30 lines
• A man said to the universe:

  A man said to the universe:
  "Sir I exist!"

  5 lines, 3 comments
• A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices

  A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
  Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile,

  21 lines
• No Violets

  There was a land where lived no violets.
  A traveller at once demanded : "Why?"

  8 lines
• Once a man clambering to the housetops

  Once a man clambering to the housetops
  Appealed to the heavens.

  7 lines
• When a people reach the top of a hill,

  When a people reach the top of a hill,
  Then does God lean toward them,

  33 lines
• From: War Is Kind

  Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
  Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky

  29 lines, 2 comments

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