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my sweet old etcetera
my sweet old etcetera
my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybo…
nobody loses all the time (X)
nobody loses all the time (X)
nobody loses all the time
i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he sh…
my father moved through dooms of love
my father moved through dooms of love
my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each n…
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell …
in time of daffodils(who know
in time of daffodils(who know
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilac…
it may not always be so
it may not always be so
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers cl…
If I have made, my lady, intricate
If I have made, my lady, intricate
If I have made, my lady, intricate
imperfect various things chiefly which wrong
your eyes (frailer than most deep drea…
in just
in just
in Justspring
when the world is mudluscious
the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill c…
i sing of Olaf glad and big
i sing of Olaf glad and big
i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or
his wellbelovéd …
if everything happens that can't be done
if everything happens that can't be done
if everything happens that can't be done
(and anything's righter
than books
could plan)
the stupides…
Fame Speaks
Fame Speaks
Stand forth,John Keats! On earth thou knew'st me not;
Steadfast through all the storms of passion,thou,
True to thy muse,and virgin to thy vo…
i have found what you are like
i have found what you are like
i have found what you are like
the rain
(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wield…
Ballad of the Scholar's Lament
Ballad of the Scholar's Lament
When I have struggled through three hundred years
of Roman history, and hastened o'er
Some French play-(though I have my p…
all in green
all in green
All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling …
Wraith
Wraith
"Thin Rain, whom are you haunting,
That you haunt my door?"
—Surely it is not I she's wanting;
Someone living here before—…
(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)
(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)
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Wild Swans
Wild Swans
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
And what did I see I had not seen before?
Only a question less or a question more:
…
When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins
When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning the…
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of bright…
We Talk of Taxes...
We Talk of Taxes...
We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
Well, such you are, -- but well enough we know
How thick about us root, how rankly grow
To Those Without Pity
To Those Without Pity
Cruel of heart, lay down my song,
Your reading eyes have done me wrong,
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, a…
Two Sonnets In Memory
Two Sonnets In Memory
(Nicola Sacco -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti)
Executed August 23, 1927
I
As men have loved their lovers in ti…
To A Poet That Died Young
To A Poet That Died Young
Minstrel, what have you to do
With this man that, after you,
Sharing not your happy fate,
Sat as England's Laureate?
To Kathleen
To Kathleen
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song an…