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  • Let A Florid Music Praise
    Let a florid music praise,
        The flute and the trumpet,
    18 lines
  • from The Cave of Making
                                          &nb
    44 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Sext
        I
        You need not see what someone is doing
    164 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Nones
        What we know to be not possible,
        Though time after time foretold
    117 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Terce
        After shaking paws with his dog,
        (Whose bark would tell the world that he is always kind,)
    42 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Prime
        Simultaneously, as soundlessly,
        Spontaneously, suddenly
    51 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Compline
        Now, as desire and the things desired
        Cease to require attention,
    66 lines
  • Horae Canonicae: Lauds
        Among the leaves the small birds sing;
        The crow of the cock commands awaking:
    26 lines
  • Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles
    Warm are the still and lucky miles,
    White shores of longing stretch away,
    16 lines
  • Song
    Fish in the unruffled lakes
    Their swarming colors wear,
    28 lines
  • The Quest XII (Vocation)
    Incredulous, he stared at the amused
    Official writing down his name among
    16 lines
  • Underneath an Abject Willow
    Underneath an abject willow,
    Lover, sulk no more:
    25 lines
  • In Memory of Sigmund Freud
    When there are so many we shall have to mourn,
    when grief has been made so public, and exposed
    138 lines
  • Thanksgiving for a Habitat
        Nobody I know would like to be buried
        with a silver cocktail-shaker,
    98 lines
  • Gare du Midi
    A nondescript express in from the South,
    Crowds round the ticket barrier, a face
    8 lines
  • Johnny
    O the valley in the summer where I and my John
    Beside the deep river would walk on and on
    33 lines
  • The Common Life
        A living-room, the catholic area you
        (Thou, rather) and I may enter
    93 lines
  • Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly
    Deftly, admiral, cast your fly
    Into the slow deep hover,
    27 lines
  • Edward Lear
    Left by his friend to breakfast alone on the white
    Italian shore, his Terrible Demon arose
    16 lines
  • Moon Landing
        It's natural the Boys should whoop it up for
        so huge a phallic triumph, an adventure
    48 lines
  • River Profile
        Out of a bellicose fore-time, thundering
        head-on collisions of cloud and rock in an
    58 lines
  • Calypso
    Driver drive faster and make a good run
    Down the Springfield Line under the shining sun.
    28 lines
  • Miss Gee
    Let me tell you a little story
      About Miss Edith Gee;
    123 lines
  • Christmas Oratio
    Well, so that is that.  Now we must dismantle the tree,
    Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes --
    52 lines
  • Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
    Our earth in 1969
    Is not the planet I call mine,
    68 lines
  • Five Songs - II
    That night when joy began
    Our narrowest veins to flush,
    11 lines
  • Hunting Fathers
        Our hunting fathers told the story
        Of the sadness of the creatures,
    20 lines
  • from In Time of War
        I
        So from the years the gifts were showered; each
    79 lines
  • Academic Graffiti
    Henry Adams
    Was mortally afraid of Madams:
    20 lines
  • Carry Her Over the Water
    Carry her over the water,
        And set her down under the tree,
    16 lines
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