To Build A Quiet City In His Mind
To build a quiet city in his mind:
A single overwhelming wish; to build,
Not hastily, for there is so much wind,
So many eager smilers to be killed,
To build a quiet city in his mind:
A single overwhelming wish; to build,
Not hastily, for there is so much wind,
So many eager smilers to be killed,
What shall we do, my soul, to please the King
Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance,
And hath condemned the honeyed utterance Of silver flutes and mouths made round to sing
Along the wall red roses climb and cling,
My Paris begins with
Those early days
As a conscious flâneur;
I recall the couple
I
When late I watched the arrows of the
Against the windows of the Tavern beat, I heard a Rose that murmured from her Pot:"Why trudge thy fellows yonder in the Street
II
In the sky there is nobody asleep
Nobody, nobody
Nobody is asleep
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins
I will not toy with it nor bend an inch
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part
My being would be a skeleton, a shell,
If this dark Passion that fills my...
Lo
Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest
There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten tower...
I remember the grey slithers of rain,
The jocular driver,
As I boarded the bus
At Temple Meads,
1 Who will honor the city without a name If so many are dead and others pan gold Or sell arms in faraway countries
What shepherd's horn swathed in the bark of birch Will sound in the Ponary Hills the memory of the absent— Vagabonds,
Path...
I was in a tawdry bar,
Or public house,
Being threatened,
For something I’d done
Kathleen Eileen
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
An omnibus,
Cutting streets
With a state-of-the-art
Cutting-edge noise,