'If my head hurt a hair's foot
Pack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breath
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A grief ago,
She who was who I hold, the fats and the flower,
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A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry
To you, my aunt, who would explore
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A process in the weather of the heart
Turns damp to dry; the golden shot
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Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flower
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A saint about to fall,
The stained flats of heaven hit and razed
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It is a winter's tale
That the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakes
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After the funeral, mule praises, brays,
Windshake of sailshaped ears, muffle-toed tap
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All all and all the dry worlds lever,
Stage of the ice, the solid ocean,
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All that I owe the fellows of the grave
And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates
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Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house
The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;
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When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
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And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
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This day winding down now
At God speeded summer's end
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The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look
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Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,
Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?
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Before I knocked and flesh let enter,
With liquid hands tapped on the womb,
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Myselves
The grievers
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My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
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On almost the incendiary eve
Of several near deaths,
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
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Do you not father me, nor the erected arm
For my tall tower's sake cast in her stone?
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Ears in the turrets hear
Hands grumble on the door,
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Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
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Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
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Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
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'Find meat on bones that soon have none,
And drink in the two milked crags,
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Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon,
Nor weather winds that blow not down the bone,
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From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second
And to the hollow minute of the womb,
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Grief thief of time crawls off,
The moon-drawn grave, with the seafaring years,
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