1. tried

  • I tried to think a lonelier Thing

    I tried to think a lonelier Thing

    Than any I had seen —

    Some Polar Expiation — An Omen in the Bone

    Of Death's tremendous nearness —


    I probed Retrieveless things

    My Duplicate — to borrow —

    A Haggard Comfort springs


    From the belief that Somewhere —

    Within the Clutch of...

  • Tried always and Condemned by thee

    Tried always and Condemned by thee

    Permit me this reprieve

    That dying I may earn the look

    For which I cease to live —

  • Whatever it is — she has tried it —

    Whatever it is — she has tried it —

    Awful Father of Love —

    Is not Ours the chastising —

    Do not chastise the Dove —


    Not for Ourselves, petition —

    Nothing is left to pray —

    When a subject is finished —

    Words are handed away —


    Only lest she be lonely

    In thy...