I dreamt I was in love again With the One Before the Last,
And smiled to greet the pleasant pain Of that innocent young past
But I jumped to feel how sharp had been The pain when it did live,
How the faded dreams of Nineteen-ten Wer...
Before you thought of spring,
Except as a surmise,
You see,
God bless his suddenness,
A spiral of green hay on the end of a rake:
The moment is sweat and sun-prick---children and old women Big in a tiny field, midgets against the mountain,
So toy-like yet so purposed you could take This for the Middle Ages
Lord God of heaven that with mercy dight Th'alternate prayer wheel of the night and light Eternal hath to thee, and in whose sight Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall,
As bright white drops upon a leaden sea Grant so my songs to this...
Before I knocked and flesh let enter,
With liquid hands tapped on the womb,
I who was as shapeless as the
That shaped the Jordan near my
We who have walked deserted stubble fields on a December evening,
Who have seen over the field's edge a soft river woman
Her fog flowers-they all are like some village girls of old-We who have seen in darkness the akanda tree, the dhundu...
I want to die before you
I want to die before you
Do you think that who passes later will find who's gone before
I don't think so
The little letters dance across the page,
Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;
Sick of the strain, the glaring light,
I rise Yawning and stretching, full of empty rage At the dull maunderings of a long dead sage,
Between the wave-ridge and the strandI let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and eyes Strain eastward till the darkness dies;
Let signs and beacons fall or stand, And stars and balefires set and rise;
Ye, ti...
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute
Fair plumed Syren
Queen of far away
Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
Behold whiles she before the altar
Hearing the holy priest that to her
And blesseth her with his two happy hands,
How the red roses flush vp in her cheekes,
I am not yet born;
O hear me
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or theclub-footed ghoul come near me
I am not yet born, console me