Last night, when I was listenin’
Alone, to wind and rain,
There must be a wound!
No one can be this hurt
"Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand,
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels
Is not my time, the flood that does not flow.
Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew,
hands of herbs, you, perfect wet nurse,
Jheelon se chaar paaye na uthte thay taaba shaam
Maskan mein machliyoon ke samandar ka tha maqaam
Dans une terre grasse et pleine d'escargots Je veux creuser moi-même une fosse profonde,
A lonely young wife
In her dreaming discerns
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Behind him the hotdogs split and drizzled
On the public grills, and the ochreous salt flats,
You walked beside me, quick and free;
With lingering touch you grasped my hand;
So each passing minute with you
Pendulummed with sadness.
There is sorrow in the household;
There's a grief too hard to bear;
I HEARD thee laugh,
And in this merriment
With two white roses on her breasts,
White candles at head and feet,
Little little man, little little man,
set free your canary that wants to fly.
I sat before my glass one day, And conjured up a vision bare,
THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night
Always at dusk, the same tearless experience, The same dragging of feet up the same well-worn path
Unaware of my crime
they stood me in the dock.
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!
Ghosts crying down the vistas of the years,
Recalling words
So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red
your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,
I wept until my tears were dry
I prayed until the candles flickered
Go away girl, go away and let me pack my dreams
When you lay before me dead,
in such a pallid rest;
Farewell, dear, young friends;
though parting is painful,
My melancholy was gold dust in your hands;
On your long hands I scattered my life;
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