I look at the Greek-derived desig… this Wedgwood copy of the Portlan… Someone had given it to my father… used to devour it by the hour. I look at a Greek coin, four-drac…

Hope is not for the wise, fear is… Change and the world, we think, ar… Open-eyed and helpless, in every n… The time’s events would seem mere… Drift the one deadly direction. B…

The dog barked; then the woman sto… iron strike stone down the steep r… Covered her head with a black shaw… she stood at the turn of the road. A nobly formed woman; erect and st…

That sculptor we knew, the passion… Who astonished Rome and Paris in… was gone, at his high tide of triu… Without reason or good-bye; I hav… twenty years, but not in Europe.

It is good for strength not to be… To its own weakness, good for the… over, good to explore The peaks and the deeps, who can e… Good to be hurt, who can be healed…

Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do fo… Poetry’s precious enough not to be… And rhymed it all out with a skew… ‘Spare these stones. Curst be he… Will hold the hands of masons and…

The old pagan burials, uninscribed… Secret-keeping mounds, Have shed the feeble delusions tha… They stand inhumanly Clean and massive; they have lost…

Stone-cutters fighting time with m… Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock… The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the ra…

The days shorten, the south blows… The south wind shouts to the river… The rivers open their mouths and t… Race up into the freshet. In Christmas month against the sm…

The world has many seas, Mediterr… here is the shore of the one ocean… And here the heavy future hangs li… enormous scene; the enormous games… Weigh on the water and strain the…

Mountains, a moment’s earth-waves… earth too’s an ephemerid; the star… Short-lived as grass the stars qui… summer, they spiral Blind up space, scattered black se…

Staggering homeward between the st… drunkard Babbles a woeful song and babbles The end of the world, the moon’s l… cloud, the storm

Farther up the gorge the sea’s voi… We heard a new noise far away ahea… it might have been some unpleasant… Bedded in a matrix of long silence… cabin lost in the redwoods,