#Americans
The willows carried a slow sound, A sarabande the wind mowed on the… I could never remember That seething, steady leveling of… Till age had brought me to the sea…
How many dawns, chill from his rip… The seagull’s wings shall dip and… Shedding white rings of tumult, bu… Over the chained bay waters Liber… Then, with inviolate curve, forsak…
O Carib Isle! The tarantula rattling at the lily… Across the feet of the dead, laid… Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fi… Side-stilting from the path (that…
We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consola… As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets… For we can still love the world, w…
—And yet this great wink of eterni… Of rimless floods, unfettered leew… Samite sheeted and processioned wh… Her undinal vast belly moonward be… Laughing the wrapt inflections of…
As silent as a mirror is believed Realities plunge in silence by ... I am not ready for repentance; Nor to match regrets. For the mot… Bends no more than the still
The little voices of the prairie d… Are tireless . . . They will give three hurrahs Alike to stage, equestrian, and pu… And all unstingingly as to the moo…
The bell-rope that gathers God at… Dispatches me as though I dropped… Of a spent day - to wander the cat… From pit to crucifix, feet chill o… Have you not heard, have you not s…
The swift red flesh, a winter king… Who squired the glacier woman down… She ran the neighing canyons all t… She spouted arms; she rose with ma… And in the autumn drouth, whose bu…
Grand Cayman This tuft that thrives on saline n… Inverted octopus with heavenward a… Thrust parching from a palm-bole h… A bird almost⎯of almost bird alarm…
Often beneath the wave, wide from… The dice of drowned men’s bones he… An embassy. Their numbers as he w… Beat on the dusty shore and were o… And wrecks passed without sound of…
Whose counted smile of hours and d… I know as spectrum of the sea and… Vastly now parting gulf on gulf of… Whose circles bridge, I know, (fr… Chilled albatross’s white immutabi…
I wanted you, nameless Woman of t… No wraith, but utterly—as still mo… The Southern Cross takes night And lifts her girdles from her, on… High, cool,
Sinuously winding through the room On smokey tongues of sweetened cig… Plaintive yet proud the cello tone… The andante of smooth hopes and lo… Bright peacocks drink from flame-p…
Above the fresh ruffles of the sur… Bright striped urchins flay each o… They have contrived a conquest for… And their fingers crumble fragment… Gaily digging and scattering.