Across the sea Come homeward ships With freight of boys. And still must we Forgo the joys

He looks in my heart and the image… Is himself, himself, than himself… And he thinks of my heart as a mir… To reflect the image I hold most… But my heart is much more like a s…

Today, in class, I read aloud to forty little boys The legend of King Croesus’ boast… They were so young, Restless, and eager, I believed t…

You may have other loves, Red mouths to kiss. Why should you lose That loveliness for this? No loveliness of mine

I lie in the dark Grass beneath and you above me, Curved like the sky, Insistent that you love me. But the high stars

I have golden shoes To make me fleet. They are like the wind Underneath my feet. When my lover’s kiss

When I am so worn out I cannot sl… And yet I know I have to work nex… Or lose my job, I sometimes have… To one long dead, who listens when… I ask Saint Rose of Lima for the…

One summer day, along the street, Men pruned the gums To make them neat. The tender branches, white with fl… Lay in the sun

This morning I got up before the… Had seized the hill, And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, pa… In sleep laid still. There they lay helpless under the…

Now I’ve been three days In the place where I am staying, I’ve taken up new ways’€” Land-owning and flute playing. There’s an orchard ground

When I get up to light the fire, And dress with all the speed I ma… By candle-light, I dread the hour… That go to make a single day. But then I leave my room, and see

This evening I’m alone. I wish there’d be Someone to come along And talk to me. Yet out of all my friends

Sometimes the skirts I push throu… Spread circlewise, strong petalled… And look for the rapt moment of a… Like Buddha’s robe. And I, caught up out of the workr…

You who are dead, Do you know They’ve dug up half the irises That used to grow Here in the quadrangle a year ago?

Sometimes I wish that I were Hel… And wise as Pallas, That I might have most royal gift… In love’s sweet chalice. Then I reflect my dear love is no…