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A Word To The 'Elect'
A Word To The 'Elect'
You may rejoice to think yourselves secure;
You may be grateful for the gift divine That
grace unsought, which made your black hear…
A Voice From The Dungeon
A Voice From The Dungeon
I'm buried now; I've done with life;
I've done with hate, revenge and strife;
I've done with joy, and hope and love
And al…
A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep
A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep
A prisoner in a dungeon deep
Sat musing silently;
His head was rested on his hand,
His elbow on his knee.
Turned…
A Hymn
A Hymn
Eternal power of earth and air,
Unseen, yet seen in all around,
Remote, but dwelling everywhere,
Though silent, heard in every sound.
…
The Spectral Attitudes
The Spectral Attitudes
I attach no importance to life
I pin not the least of life's butterflies to importance
I do not matter to life
But the branc…
And yet my comrades marked it not,
And yet my comrades marked it not,
My voice was still the same;
They saw me smile, and o'er my face No
signs of sadness came;
They little kne…
Freedom of Love
Freedom of Love
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning
With…
Less Time
Less Time
Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account of
everything,
there you have it. I've made a census of …
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for
loving toys, who forbade her…
Always for the First Time
Always for the First Time
Always for the first time
Hardly do I know you by sight
You return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my windo…
When the Light Appears
When the Light Appears
You'll bare your bones you'll grow you'll pray you'll only know
When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
You'll sing & …
Risk
Risk
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.
Understand That This Is a Dream
Understand That This Is a Dream
Real as a dream
What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?
What is the interpretation of this planet, this moon?…
Wales Visitation
Wales Visitation
White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow
Trees moving in rivers of wind
The clouds arise
as on a wave, gigantic eddy lifting m…
The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality
The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality
Reality is a question
of realizing how real
the world is already.
Time is Eternity,
ultimate and …
To Aunt Rose
To Aunt Rose
Aunt Rose—now—might I see you
with your thin face and buck tooth smile and pain
of rheumatism—and a long black heavy shoe
for your bon…
Song
Song
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight, <…
Sunflower Sutra
Sunflower Sutra
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade
of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look for the sunset over …
Paterson
Paterson
What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money?
How much can I make by cutting my hair? If I put new heels on my shoes,
bathe…
Psalm IV
Psalm IV
Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God:
It was no dream, I lay broad waking on a fabulous couch in Harlem
having …
Mugging (I)
Mugging (I)
I
Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth street’s dusk—
Walked out of my home ten years, walked out in my honking neighbo…
Nagasaki Days
Nagasaki Days
I -- A Pleasant Afternoon
for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup
One day 3 poets and 60 ears sat under a green-striped Chautauq…
Kral Majales (King of May)
Kral Majales (King of May)
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
lying policemen
and the Capitalists proffer Napalm …
Kaddish, Part I
Kaddish, Part I
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on
the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhatt…