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  • To A Dead Lover
    The dark is thrown
    Back from the brightness, like hair
    31 lines
  • Zone
    We have struck the regions wherein we are keel or reef.
    The wind breaks over us,
    15 lines
  • Statue And Birds
    Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind,
    Straight sides, carven knees,
    18 lines
  • Leave-Taking
    I do not know where either of us can turn
    Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other.
    18 lines
  • Cassandra
    To me, one silly task is like another.
    I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.
    7 lines
  • Juan's Song
    When beauty breaks and falls asunder
    I feel no grief for it, but wonder.
    10 lines
  • Chanson Un Peu Naïve
    What body can be ploughed,
    Sown, and broken yearly?
    18 lines
  • Man Alone
    It is yourself you seek
    In a long rage,
    20 lines
  • Betrothed
    You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth,
    You have said my name as a prayer.
    23 lines
  • The Frightened Man
    In fear of the rich mouth
    I kissed the thin,--
    12 lines
  • Portrait
    She has no need to fear the fall
    Of harvest from the laddered reach
    12 lines
  • Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell
    At midnight tears
    Run in your ears.
    1 lines
  • A Tale
    This youth too long has heard the break
    Of waters in a land of change.
    18 lines
  • Words For Departure
    Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.
    When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,
    36 lines
  • Last Hill In A Vista
    Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches
    How we are poor, who once had riches,
    12 lines
  • Epitaph For A Romantic Woman
    She has attained the permanence
        She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning.
    8 lines
  • Medusa
    I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
    Facing a sheer sky.
    21 lines
  • Sonnet
    Since you would claim the sources of my thought
    Recall the meshes whence it sprang unlimed,
    14 lines
  • Tears In Sleep
    All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day,
    And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's breast,
    8 lines
  • Knowledge
    Now that I know
    How passion warms little
    8 lines
  • The Dream
    O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
    To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows,
    16 lines
  • The Crossed Apple
    I’ve come to give you fruit from out my orchard,
    Of wide report.
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Song For The Last Act
    Now that I have your face by heart, I look
    Less at its features than its darkening frame
    27 lines
  • Roman Fountain
    Up from the bronze, I saw
    Water without a flaw
    15 lines
  • Women
    Women have no wilderness in them,
    They are provident instead,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • The Alchemist
    I burned my life, that I might find
    A passion wholly of the mind,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
    Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
    Have the staff without the banner.
    13 lines, 1 comment
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