To Paint a Water Lily
A green level of lily leaves
Roofs the pond’s chamber and paves
The flies’ furious arena: study
These, the two minds of this lady.

At his begetting a Welsh adder
Declaiming in Ayrshire against Di
With the jewel of Ireland under i
Entered his mother and for nine mo
The ghost confronted her in doorwa

Russia and America circle each ot
Threats nudge an act that were wit
A melting of the mould in the moth
Stones melting about the root.
The quick of the earth burned out:

The tractor stands frozen —an agon
To think of. All night
Snow packed its open entrails. No
A spill of molten ice, smoking sno
Pours into its steel.

This house has been far out at sea
The woods crashing through darknes
Winds stampeding the fields under
Floundering black astride and blin
Till day rose; then under an orang

A shattered army, Thames’ filthy
Not a beautiful spectacle
For the drinkers of history, or fo
Or my friends, this island’s paral
Wordsworth’s head went down here s

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, yo
With your fresh thoughts care for,
Ah! as the heart grows older

Against the rubber tongues of cows
Thistles spike the summer air
And crackle open under a blue—blac
Every one a revengeful burst
Of resurrection, a grasphed fistfu

The moon not o be named
Going over, clear of all poetry,
The exhauster of the poetical
Faculties of our race, surrenderin
Of her fourth day rights, ignores

Farmers in the fields, housewives
Watch the burning aircraft across
As if a firefly and a spider fough
Far above the trees, between the w
They wait with interest for the ev