O you,
Who came upon me once
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You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncontrolled candles.
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When I go away from you
The world beats dead
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I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
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April had covered the hills
With flickering yellows and reds,
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A little garden on a bleak hillside
Where deep the heavy, dazzling mountain snow
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You came to me bearing bright roses,
Red like the wine of your heart;
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Tell me,
Was Venus more beautiful
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All day long I have been working,
Now I am tired
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You -- you --
Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver;
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As I would free the white almond from the green husk
So I would strip your trappings off,
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When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
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When I have baked white cakes
And grated green almonds to spread on them;
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A black cat among roses,
Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
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They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia,
Opulent, flaunting.
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Shall I give you white currants?
I do not know why, but I have a sudden fancy for this fruit.
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The snow whispers around me
And my wooden clogs
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Life is a stream
On which we strew
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In the cloud gray mornings
I heard the herons Flying
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The wind is singing through the trees to-night,
A deep-voiced song of rushing cadences
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I walk down the garden-paths,
And all the daffodils
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Dance!
Dance!
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How beautiful are the corn rows,
Stretching to the morning sun,
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I am waving a ripe sunflower,
I am scattering sunflower pollen to the four world-quarters.
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Send sunflowers!
With my turkey-bone whistle
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My corn is green with red tassels,
I am praying to the lightning to ripen my corn,
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Before the Altar, bowed, he stands
With empty hands;
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Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign
To put upon the cover of this book?
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Glinting golden through the trees,
Apples of Hesperides!
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As one who sails upon a wide, blue sea
Far out of sight of land, his mind intent
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