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Book: A Boy's Will

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  • The Tuft Of Flowers
    I went to turn the grass once after one
      Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.
    61 lines, 3 comments
  • My November Guest
    My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
    Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
    20 lines, 3 comments
  • Stars
    How countlessly they congregate
    O'er our tumultuous snow,
    12 lines
  • October
    O hushed October morning mild,
    Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
    21 lines, 2 comments
  • Revelation
    We make ourselves a place apart
    Behind light words that tease and flout,
    12 lines
  • Love And A Question
    A stranger came to the door at eve,
    And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • A Late Walk
    When I go up through the mowing field,
    The headless aftermath,
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • The Demiurge's Laugh
    It was far in the sameness of the wood;
    I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
    18 lines
  • Asking For Roses
    A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master,
    With doors that none but the wind ever closes,
    28 lines
  • My Butterfly
    Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too,
    And the daft sun-assaulter, he
    47 lines, 1 comment
  • A Dream Pang
    I had withdrawn in forest, and my song
    Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway;
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Reluctance
    Out through the fields and the woods
    And over the walls I have wended;
    24 lines
  • A Line-Storm Song
    The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift.
    The road is forlorn all day,
    40 lines
  • The Vantage Point
    If tires of trees I seek again mankind,
    Well I know where to hie me--in the dawn,
    14 lines
  • A Prayer In Spring
    Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
    And give us not to think so far away
    16 lines
  • Mowing
    There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
    And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
    14 lines
  • Flower-Gathering
    I left you in the morning,
    And in the morning glow,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Now Close The Windows
    Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
    If the trees must, let them silently toss;
    8 lines, 3 comments
  • Ghost House
    I dwell in a lonely house I know
    That vanished many a summer ago,
    30 lines, 3 comments
  • Pan With Us
    Pan came out of the woods one day,--
    His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray,
    30 lines, 2 comments
  • Going For Water
    The well was dry beside the door,
    And so we went with pail and can
    24 lines
  • Rose Pogonias
    A saturated meadow,
    Sun-shaped and jewel-small,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • In Hardwood Groves
    The same leaves over and over again!
    They fall from giving shade above
    12 lines
  • The Trial By Existence
    Even the bravest that are slain
    Shall not dissemble their surprise
    72 lines
  • In Neglect
    They leave us so to the way we took,
    As two in whom them were proved mistaken,
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • To The Thawing Wind
    Come with rain. O loud Southwester!
    Bring the singer, bring the nester;
    15 lines
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