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• I Have Cast the World

  I have cast the world,
  and think me as nothing.
  Yet I feel cold on snow-filling day, …

  Yone Noguchi

• Allegra Agonistes

  A gleam of gold in gloom and gray,
  A call from out a fairer day.
  O pang at heart and ebbing blood! …

  Grace Fallow Norton

• Make No Vows

  I made a vow once, one only.
  I was young and I was lonely.
  When I grew strong I said: “This vow …

  Grace Fallow Norton

• I Give Thanks

  There’s one that I once loved so much
  I am no more the same.
  I give thanks for that transforming touch. …

  Grace Fallow Norton

• The Slave

  They set the slave free, striking off his chains….
  Then he was as much of a slave as ever.
  He was still chained to servility, …

  James Oppenheim

• The Lonely Child

  Do you think, my boy, when I put my arms around you
  To still your fears,
  That it is I who conquer the dark and the lonely night? …

  James Oppenheim

• Not Overlooked

  Though i am little as all little things,
  Though the stars that pass over my tininess are as the sands of the sea,
  Though the garment of the night was made for a sky-giant and does not fit me, …

  James Oppenheim

• The Runner in the Skies

  Who is the runner in the skies,
  With her blowing scarf of stars,
  And our earth and sun hovering like bees about her blossoming heart! …

  James Oppenheim

• Annie Shore and Johnnie Doon

  annie shore, ’twas, sang last night
  Down in South End saloon;
  A tawdry creature in the light, …

  Patrick Orr

• In the Mohave

  As i rode down the arroyo through yuccas belled with bloom
  I saw a last year’s stalk lift dried hands to the light,
  Like age at prayer for death within a careless room, …

  Patrick Orr

• The Cedars

  All down the years the fragrance came,
  The mingled fragrance, with a flame,
  Of cedars breathing in the sun, …

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• A Song of Solomon

  King solomon was the wisest man
  Of all that have been kings.
  He built an House unto the Lord; …

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• Greek

  Be in me as the eternal moods
  of the bleak wind, and not
  As transient things are— …

  Ezra Pound

• The Return

  See, they return; ah, see the tentative
  Movements, and the slow feet,
  The trouble in the pace and the uncertain …

  Ezra Pound

• Piccadilly

  Beautiful, tragical faces—
  Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;
  And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved, …

  Ezra Pound

• The Coming of War: Actaeon

  An image of Lethe,
  and the fields
  Full of faint light …

  Ezra Pound

• Ortus

  How have I labored?
  How have I not labored
  To bring her soul to birth, …

  Ezra Pound

• The Garret

  Come let us pity those who are better off than we are.
  Come, my friend, and remember
  that the rich have butlers and no friends, …

  Ezra Pound

• Dance Figure

  Dark-eyed,
  o woman of my dreams,
  Ivory sandaled, …

  Ezra Pound

• From "Near Perigord"

  I loved a woman. The stars fell from heaven.
  And always our two natures were in strife.
  Bewildering spring, and by the Auvezère …

  Ezra Pound

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