#Americans
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…
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,
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…
Perspective never withers from the… They keep that docile edict of the… That blends March with August An… These are but cows that see no oth… Than grass and snow, and their own…
Performances, assortments, résumé… Up Times Square to Columbus Circ… Channel the congresses, nightly se… Refractions of the thousand theatr… Mysterious kitchens. . . . You sh…
My hands have not touched water si… No;—nor my lips freed laughter sin… And with the day, distance again e… Between us, voiceless as an uncoil… Yet,—much follows, much endures...…
Forgetfulness is like a song That, freed from beat and measure,… Forgetfulness is like a bird whose… Outspread and motionless,— A bird that coasts the wind unwear…
You who desired so much—in vain to… Yet fed you hunger like an endless… Dared dignify the labor, bless the… Achieved that stillness ultimately… Being, of all, least sought for:…
A land of leaning ice Hugged by plaster-grey arches of s… Flings itself silently Into eternity. “Has no one come here to win you,
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.
It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity,— Silence and gentle gloom! Wide from the world, a stolen hour
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…
Yes, I being the terrible puppet of my dreams,… lavish this on you– the dense mine of the orchid, spli… And the fingernails that cinch suc…
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…