(After Rilke) We cannot know the indescribable f… Where the eyes like apples ripened… His torso has a candelabra’s glow, His gaze, contained as in a mirror…

Twenty-eight naked young women bat… Or near the bank of a woodland lak… Twenty-eight girls and all of them… Worthy of Mack Sennett’s camera a… Foolish Follies.

Remember midsummer: the fragrance… roses And of phlox. And upon a honeysuc… Three snails hanging with infinite… —Clinging like tendril, flake and…

This is the greatest thing in Nor… Europe is the greatest thing in N… High in the sky, dark in the heart… Among the natural powers of sunlig… Changing, second by second, shifti…

The riches of the poet are equal t… His power is his left hand It is idle weak and precious His poverty is his wealth, a wealt… like Midas Because it is that laz…

Socrates ghost must haunt me now, Notorious death has let him go, He comes to me with a clumsy bow, Saying in his disused voice, That I do not know I do not know,

“I have been one acquainted with t… Rode in the train all night, in th… Flew parallel with a singular will… attitudes The other passengers slumped, doze…

The beautiful American word, Sure… As I have come into a room, and t… The lamp’s button, and the light b… Certainty where the darkness loome… As I care for what I do not know,…

Calmly we walk through this April… Metropolitan poetry here and there… In the park sit pauper and rentier… The screaming children, the motor-… Fugitive about us, running away,

News of the Gold World of May in… “Wooden shoes will clatter again on freshly scrubbed streets—” The tulip will arise and reign aga… windows

Father: On these occasions, the feelings s… Spontaneous as rain, and they comp… Explicitness, embarrassed eyes—— Son:

When I fall asleep, and even duri… I hear, quite distinctly, voices s… Whole phrases, commonplace and tri… Having no relation to my affairs. Dear Mother, is any time left to…

“Poet and veteran of childhood, lo… See in me the obscene, for you hav… For you have hatred, you, you must… Deliver judgement, Delmore Schwar… Well-known wishes have been to war…

Old man in the crystal morning aft… Your throat swathed in a muffler,… Figure building the snow man which… For the grandchild’s target, do you know

Nothing is given which is not take… Little or nothing is taken which i… freely, truly and fully. “You would not seek me if you had… true of all that is supremely desi…