Book: Young Adventure

• Dedication: To W. R. B.

  And so, to you, who always were
  Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot

  12 lines
• The Drug-Shop, Or, Endymion In Edmonstoun

  Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark,
  Dark green, dusk red, and, like a coiling snake,

  447 lines
• Poor Devil!

  Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk,
  The tiresome noises, all the common things

  24 lines
• Rain After A Vaudeville Show

  The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white
  Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light

  30 lines
• The Innovator

  (A Pharaoh Speaks.)
  I said, "Why should a pyramid

  21 lines
• The City Revisited

  The grey gulls drift across the bay
  Softly and still as flakes of snow

  56 lines
• A Minor Poet

  I am a shell. From me you shall not hear
  The splendid tramplings of insistent drums,

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Going Back To School

  The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past
  And all the grey waves flamed to red again

  31 lines
• Portrait Of A Baby

  He lay within a warm, soft world
  Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled,

  55 lines, 1 comment
• Nos Immortales

  Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun,
  Into the free companionship of air;

  14 lines
• The White Peacock

  (France -- Ancient Regime.)
  I.

  125 lines, 1 comment
• Young Blood

  He woke up with a sick taste in his mouth
  And lay there heavily, while dancing motes

  45 lines
• Winged Man

  The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits,
  The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates,

  37 lines, 1 comment
• The Quality Of Courage

  Black trees against an orange sky,
  Trees that the wind shook terribly,

  184 lines
• The Fiddling Wood

  Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron,
  Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked

  54 lines
• Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination

  The little letters dance across the page,
  Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;

  14 lines
• Road And Hills

  I shall go away
  To the brown hills, the quiet ones,

  58 lines
• Campus Sonnets: Talk

  Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling
  From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes,

  14 lines
• Ghosts Of A Lunatic Asylum

  Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright
  As the blank windows set in glaring brick,

  16 lines
• Campus Sonnets: May Morning

  I lie stretched out upon the window-seat
  And doze, and read a page or two, and doze,

  14 lines
• Colors

  (For D. M. C.)
  The little man with the vague beard and guise

  15 lines
• Campus Sonnets: Return - 1917

  "The College will reopen Sept. —."
  `Catalogue'.

  17 lines
• The Lover In Hell

  Eternally the choking steam goes up
  From the black pools of seething oil. . . .

  67 lines
• Alexander VI Dines With The Cardinal Of Capua

  Next, then, the peacock, gilt
  With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes

  60 lines
• Music

  My friend went to the piano; spun the stool
  A little higher; left his pipe to cool;

  27 lines
• The Breaking Point

  It was not when temptation came,
  Swiftly and blastingly as flame,

  35 lines
• Love In Twilight

  There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips
  Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen loom

  20 lines
• Lonely Burial

  There were not many at that lonely place,
  Where two scourged hills met in a little plain.

  14 lines
• Portrait Of A Boy

  After the whipping he crawled into bed,
  Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping.

  24 lines
• Dinner In A Quick Lunch Room

  Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn,
  Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars;

  14 lines, 1 comment
• The General Public

  Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning.
  "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then

  43 lines
• The Hemp

  (A Virginia Legend.)
  The Planting of the Hemp.

  157 lines
• Elegy For An Enemy

  (For G. H.)
  Say, does that stupid earth

  57 lines

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