Love Poems – Page 113
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Lament
Lady, your heart has turned to dust, / Your wail is taken by the sea. / The wind is knocking at my heart, … -
Iteration
My son is dead and I am going blind, / And in the Ishmael-wind of grief / I tremble like a leaf; … -
Early Nightfall
The pale day drowses on the western steep; / The toiler faints along the marge of sleep / Within the sunset-press, incarnadine, … -
Songs of Deliverance - I. The Song of Youth
This is the song of youth, / This is the cause of myself; / I knew my father well and he was a fool, … -
Songs of Deliverance - II. Virgins
I have had one fear in my life— / When I was young I feared virgins; / But I do not any more…. … -
Songs of Deliverance - III. No Prey Am I
No prey am I of poor thoughts. / I leave all of my followers; I tire quickly of them; / I send them away from me when they ask too much; for though I live alone … -
Trees
I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. / A tree whose hungry mouth is prest … -
America
Up and down he goes / With terrible, reckless strides, / Flaunting great lamps … -
Old Manuscript
The sky / Is that beautiful old parchment / In which the sun … -
Cezanne
Our door was shut to the noon-day heat. / We could not see him. / We might not have heard him either— …
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